Though international cricket has marked its return with the Test series between England and West Indies on July 8, Indian cricketers are yet to get back into the action amid the crunch situation of the global pandemic novel COVID-19. Moreover, the ICC has postponed the upcoming T20 World Cup which was scheduled to be played in Australia and that opened the window for the 13th edition of Indian premier league which will take place in UAE from September.

But before taking part in any competitive match, players need to regain their match fitness. Therefore, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has organized a training camp for its contracted players in Ahmedabad under a bio-secure bubble for the upcoming IPL 2020.

As the news came, the speculations regarding veteran wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni’s participation in the camp have also raised. But Dhoni wouldn't take part in the camp. The camp that will be organized in Motera Stadium – is only for the contracted players and according to the 2019-20 contract, Dhoni doesn't feature in the BCCI central contracts. However, the former India captain has been out of the action ever since Team India lost to New Zealand in the 2019 World Cup in England. Having played no international match for more than 12 months, MS Dhoni has been excluded from the 2020-21 BCCI central contracts as well.

Here is the list of players who will take part in the training camp:

Grade A+

• Virat Kohli (C)
• Rohit Sharma
• Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A

• Ravichandran Ashwin
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Cheteshwar Pujara
• Ajinkya Rahane
• KL Rahul
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Mohammed Shami
• Ishant Sharma
• Kuldeep Yadav
• Rishabh Pant

Grade B

• Wriddhiman Saha
• Umesh Yadav
• Yuzvendra Chahal
• Hardik Pandya
• Mayank Agarwal

Grade C

• Kedar Jadhav
• Navdeep Saini
• Deepak Chahar
• Manish Pandey
• Hanuma Vihari
• Shardul Thakur
• Shreyas Iyer
• Washington Sundar

But the world's best finisher has started practicing for the upcoming edition of Indian Premier League before the COVID-19 postponed the league which was earlier scheduled to start on March 29. He used to train in Chennai with a few of his Chennai Super Kings (CSK) teammates, including Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, and Piyush Chawla in the first week of March as well. Since the league will take place soon, all the fans are eagerly waiting to see their favourite player back in the action again.