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NZ Tour Match Squads
Thursday, September 25 2003Indian selectors have named strong squads to face New Zealand in two lead-up matches before the Test series.
Back in the selection frame is former Test gloveman Deep Dasgupta, unceremoniously dumped by selectors following England's tour of India in 2001.
Sadagopan Ramesh also emerges from the wilderness, as do Connor Williams and Tinu Yohannan.
Surprisingly, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman have been included in a warm-up match, suggesting they are not certain of their Test places.
The Board President’s Squad is:
Virender Sehwag (c)
Akash Chopra
Shiv Sunder Das
Wasim Jaffer
VVS Laxman
Yuvraj Singh
Sridharan Sriram
Ajay Ratra
Amit Uniyal
Amit Mishra
Ramesh Powar
Amit Bhandari
Siddharth Trivedi
Tinu Yohannan.
India 'A' Squad:
Mohammad Kaif (c)
Sadagopan Ramesh
Akash Chopra
Connor Williams
Hemang Badani
Rohan Gavaskar
Abhijit Kale
Mithun Manhas
Deep Dasgupta
Murali Kartik
Sarandeep Singh
RP Singh
Munaf Patel
Sri Shanth.
Posted by James