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May 09, 2007

Indian Skipper Rahul Dravid has been knocked down by a nasty bouncer from left arm quick R.P.Singh that has left him injured in the penultimate day of the five-day conditioning camp in Kolkata. Fortunately, the injury that Dravid has got is not a serious one and is expected to be fine with a day's rest. The Indian Skipper did receive the blow on his nose but luckily the grill of his helmet had reduced quite a significant amount of shock.

Dravid's case wasn't an insignificant one-off incident like the Sachin Tendulkar awkward fall to a rising delivery from Sreesanth on the first day. Dravid was left bleeding considerably but John Gloster, the team's Physio came in time to do the damage control. An ENT Specialist later diagnosed the injury as "nose trauma". There was no fracture detected by the X-Rays. The entire episode did bring up speculations that Virender Sehwag would be asked to lead the side in the first ODI in case Rahul Dravid wasn't going to be fit by the 10th. Among all the players that were called for the camp, only VVS Laxman couldn't attend even a single day of the camp as he was suffering from gastroenteritis.

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