Team India arrive in Belfast

BELFAST: The 15-member Indian cricket team, led by skipper Rahul Dravid, on Wednesday flew in here to play a three-match one-day international series against South Africa in Ireland.

The team, accompanied by cricket manager Chandu Borde, will begin its 80-day tour of the United Kingdom by playing the first match of the off-shore series against South Africa at Stormont on June 26.

The Indians are scheduled to play a warm-up match against Ireland here on Saturday.

After the series, India will travel to Scotland to take on Pakistan in a one-off ODI clash at Glasgow on July 3, the proceeds of which would go to the Prince Charles Charitable Trust.

The players would then move to England to take on the hosts in a three-Test series, which would be followed by seven one-dayers.