Within a couple of hours of arriving here Thursday afternoon from Dambulla, Indian cricketers got down to serious business with a swimming pool session that was preceded by road running.

Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Jai Prakash Yadav and Y. Venugopal Rao went road running, accompanied by trainer Gregory King and sports scientist Ian Fraze, on the concrete road next to the beach across the teams' hotel, Taj Samudra.

While the four, dressed in their India colour training T-shirts and shorts, went for about a 30-minute run, some of their teammates took it easy until the start of the pool session.

And when the runners returned to the hotel the rest of the players joined them as they hit the hotel pool under the watchful eyes of King, physiotherapist John Gloster and coach Greg Chappell.

India have lost two of the three matches they have played in the one-day triangular series, and need to beat the West Indies Sunday to join Sri Lanka in the final.

The badly depleted West Indies team has lost both its matches, one each to India and Sri Lanka, and now need to win both their remaining league encounters to hope to qualify for the Aug 9 final.

West Indies, who are missing several top players due to a pay dispute with their cricket board, next play Sri Lanka at R. Premadasa Stadium Saturday and meet India Sunday at the same venue.

Sri Lanka, clearly looking the best team in the seven-match competition, have won all three of their league matches despite two of their automatic starters in the XI-left-arm speedsters - Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Zoysa - not playing a single match due to fitness problems.

The Indian and West Indies teams, along with match officials and umpires, arrived here Thursday afternoon in luxury coaches from Dambulla, while the West Indies cricketers had reached here Wednesday.