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Bahutule to
lead Board President's XI against South Africa |
Nov 6th, Mumbai:
 Mumbai
all-rounder Sairaj Bahutule would lead a
14-member Indian Cricket Board Presidents XI
team in the three-day tour opener against the
visiting South African team to be held at Jaipur
from November 14-16.
The national selection committee, which chose
the team here today, included Tamil Nadu opener
Sadagopan Ramesh in the squad along with two
openers who were in the Indian team for the
fourth and final Test against Australia, Gautam
Gambhir of Delhi and Dheeraj Jadhav of
Maharashtra.
The left-handed Ramesh, whose career has
nose-dived after a good start against the
visiting Pakistan team in the late 1990s, had
been out of contention since returning from
India's tour of Australia last season where he
could not force his way into the playing eleven.
Also back in national reckoning is Punjab
batsman Dinesh Mongia who's been left in the
cold after India's superb run in the 2003 World
Cup in South Africa. He has bounced back into
contention on the strength of his successful
stint in English county cricket and in last
seasons domestic circuit. Mahender Singh Dhoni
will be standing behind the stumps.
Squad: Gautam Gambhir, Dheeraj Jadhav,
Sadagopan Ramesh, Hemang Badani (vice-captain),
Venugopal Rao, Dinesh Mongia, Sairaj Bahutule
(captain), Ramesh Powar, Shiv Sunder Paul, Amit
Bhandari, M S Dhoni (wk), Suresh Raina, Avishkar
Salvi and Joginder Singh Sharma.
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