TEAM FOR CHALLANGER, PROBABLES FOR AUSSIE TOUR ANNOUNCED.


Orissa medium pacer Debashish Mohanty, who picked 10 wickets in an innings against South Zone in the recent Duleep Trophy match, and veteran left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju are among the 25 probables selected for the conditioning camp to be held at Chennai from February 6-11 and February 16-20 before the home series against the Aussies.

The Indian cricket board secretary, Jaywant Lele, told reporters after naming the probables and the three one-day teams for the Hero Honda-N K P Salve Challenger Trophy that the Indian 'A' team, to play the three-day match against Australia from February 17-19 either at Hyderabad or Nagpur, would be selected on the second day of the camp.

The Indian team for the first Test will be selected during the three-day match, Lele added.

The first foreign coach for the Indian team, John Wright of New Zealand, selection committee chairman Chandu Borde and skipper Sourav Ganguly also attended the meeting.

Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar would lead the Indian seniors, India-A and India-B teams respectively in the Challenger Trophy.

Probables for the camp are:

Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, S Ramesh, Shiv Sundar Das, V V S Laxman, Dinesh Mongia, Hemang Badani, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar, Debasish Mohanty, Ashish Nehra, Venkatesh Prasad, Surinder Singh, Nayan Mongia, Vijay Dahiya, Rahul Sanghvi, Murali Kartik, W D Balaji Rao, Sharandeep Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Venkatapathy Raju, Sunil Joshi and Mohammed Kaif.

Teams for the Challenger Trophy:

India Seniors: Sourav Ganguly (captain), S S Das, Yuveraj Singh, Hemang Badani, V V S Laxman, Virendra Sehwag, Vijay Dahiya (WK), Ashish Kapoor, Debasish Mohanty, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan and Sunil Joshi.

India 'A': Rahul Dravid (captain), S Ramesh, S Sriram, Jacob Martin, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Nayan Mongia (WK), Venkatesh Prasad, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Siddique, Rahul Sanghvi and W D Balaji Rao.

India 'B': Sachin Tendulkar (captain), J P Yadav, Mohammed Kaif, Dinesh Mongia, Robin Singh, Amay Khurasiya, Sukhwinder Singh, Nikhil Chopra, Rakesh Patel, Surinder Singh, Dodda Ganesh and Vikram Rathore.

Challenger Trophy schedule:

Feb 12: India Seniors vs India 'A' Feb 13: India Seniors vs India 'B' Feb 14: India 'A' vs India 'B' Feb 15: Final

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