Warne has craving for bean feast By David Rennie 6 March 1998

Qantas, the Australian national airline, is flying 1,900 tins of beans and spaghetti to the team's hotel in time for the first Test, which begins in Madras today.

Warne, described by Australian officials yesterday as ``not a fan of exotic cuisine'', has apparently been existing on a diet of breakfast cereal, toast, cheese and Vegemite on naan bread, supplemented with vitamin pills, since arriving in India nearly two weeks ago.

India (from): *M Azharuddin, N S Sidhu, -N R Mongia, S R Ganguly, S R Tendulkar, R Dravid, H H Kanitkar, A Kumble, J Srinath, R K Chauhan, S Venkatapathy Raju, V V S Laxman, Harvinder Singh, D Mohanty.

Australia (from): *M A Taylor, M J Slater, G S Blewett, R T Ponting, M E Waugh, S R Waugh, -I A Healy, P R Reiffel, S K Warne, M S Kasprowicz, G Robertson.

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