Lancashire start training at Mumbai Indians' training ground

Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians are hosting English County Club Lancashire at the Reliance Corporate Park, the training ground of the franchise. The English club is in the city for a week-long, pre-season training camp in preparation for the start of the 2020 season. Lancashire arrived at the Reliance Corporate Park on Friday (February 14) and will train at the ground till February 22.

A total of 13 players are part of the visiting squad. According to Lancashire’s official website, the 13-member squad will be put through an intense training schedule, building upon the work done at Old Trafford in a warm weather climate. The squad started training for the upcoming season in November and their stay in India is the first opportunity for the players to train outdoors.

The county outfit will also take on a Reliance XI in a T20 to close the tour. A number of big names are missing from the squad.  Saqib Mahmood and Matt Parkinson have missed out as they are in South Africa for the ongoing T20I series while Liam Livingstone and Dane Vilas are not involved due to Pakistan Super League commitments.

On Saturday, Lancashire’s Twitter handle posted some beautiful snaps of Reliance Corporate Park and wrote: ” Our home for the week in Mumbai. The @lancscricket squad will be based at Reliance Corporate Park, which is @mipaltan ‘s training ground during the @IPL.”

Our 🏡 for the week in Mumbai. 👌

The @lancscricket squad will be based at Reliance Corporate Park, which is @mipaltan's training ground during the @IPL.

🌹 #RedRoseTogether 🇮🇳 @MCRIndia pic.twitter.com/9vwQGxoqUR

— Lancashire Cricket (@lancscricket) February 15, 2020

IPL schedule announced

Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians’ main squad will soon start training at the ground as the schedule for the 13th edition of the IPL has been announced. The defending champions will take on arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings in the first game of the competition on March 29 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The schedule for the playoffs is yet to be announced.

Having won the IPL a record four times, Mumbai Indians will be looking to lay their hands on the trophy once again this season. As usual, they are one of the hot favourites to win the trophy once again.

Here is the Lancashire squad that is currently training in Mumbai: Tom Bailey, George Balderson, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft, Alex Davies, Tom Hartley, Liam Hurt, Rob Jones, Danny Lamb, Toby Lester, Jack Morley, Stephen Parry, Luke Wood