Indian team led by skipper MS Dhoni reached the stadium late in the afternoon as captain coach Gary Kirsten straightaway went to have a look at the pitch.
While the two were having a close look, pitch curator Daljit Singh was also around. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who was away to his hometown Jalandhar yesterday, about 150km from Mohali, joined his teammates in the evening when they were playing volleyball.
Thereafter, a friendly football match was played for nearly 90 minutes between Dhoni's camp that included Virat Kohli, S Sreesanth, Ashish Nehra and Virender Sehwag as goalkeeper on one side and opposite team that had Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan and Gautam Gambhir as goalkeeper.
Initially, Tendulkar kept knocking at one end while other teammates were playing football, but he joined his mates soon.
Virender Sehwag didn't take part in the football match as he didn't think it would be right to aggravate his knee injury before such a crucial encounter.
Later, the team did some fielding practice. After the session was over, Dhoni, Nehra, Munaf and few others including Harbhajan Singh played volleyball for a while before winding up.
Earlier today, Pakistani team led by Shahid Afridi played football, did some warm-up exercises while some teammates including Afridi and Misbah-ul-Haq could be seen wearing boxing gloves and exchanging punches.
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