Sachin, Dravid arrive for Test series

Mirpur:

Six Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, arrived here on Wednesday to join their teammates for the two-match Test series against Bangladedsh commencing in Chittagong from January 17.

Besides Tendulklar and Dravid, VVS Laxman, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha and Murali Vijay landed at the Zia International Airport on a Jet Airways flight at 12 pm.

None of the players spoke to the reporters and straightaway drove to the team hotel.

The 16-member Indian squad will fly to Chaittagong on Thursday afternoon.

Virat Kohli, Ashok Dinda, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Ashish Nehra and Rohit Sharma, who are in the ODI sqaud for the tri-series, will return home on Thursday.

The second Test starts here from January 24.