Axed from India's 15-member squad for next month's first two ODIs against England, off-colour spinner Harbhajan Singh was named captain of the India Green team for the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy to be held in Nagpur from October 10 to 13.
Published: Sep 29, 2011, 04:54 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 29, 2011, 04:54 PM (IST)
Gautam Gambhir will lead India Red in the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy © Getty Images
Chennai: Sep 29, 2011
Axed from India’s 15-member squad for next month’s first two ODIs against England, off-colour spinner Harbhajan Singh was named captain of the India Green team for the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy to be held in Nagpur from October 10 to 13.
The new BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale announced the 14-member squads of India Blue, India Green and India Red teams for the 50-over-a-side tournament after a meeting of the national selection committee here.
Opener Gautam Gambhir, who missed the ODI series in England because of a head injury, not only returned to the national fold but has also been handed the responsibility of leading the India Red side, while Tamil Nadu middle-order batsman S Badrinath has been named captain of the India Blue team.
Apart from Harbhajan, Yusuf Pathan (India Red), left-arm pacer R P Singh (India Red), Amit Mishra (India Blue), Pragyan Ojha (India Blue) and Piyush Chawla (India Red), who all have been ignored for the first ODIs against England, will also have a chance to stake their claims for a comeback to the national team.
Squad:
India Blue: S Badrinath (c, TNCA), Murali Vijay (TNCA), Paul Valthaty (HPCA), Manish Pandey (KSCA), Dinesh Karthik (TNCA), Mandeep Singh (Punjab CA), Saurabh Tiwary (JSCA), Irfan Pathan (Baroda CA), Amit Mishra (Haryana CA), Pragyan Ojha (Hyderabad CA), Y V Krishanarty (JSCA), Prashant Parameshwaran (Kerala CA), Pradeep Sangwan (DDCA), Tanmay Srivastava (UPCA).
India Green: Harbhajan Singh (c, Punjab CA), Robin Uthappa (KSCA), S Anirudha (TNCA), T Suman (Hyderabad CA), Mohnish Mishra (MPCA), Ishank Jaggi (JSCA), Mohd Kaif (UPCA), C M Gautham (KSCA), S Ladda (Punjab CA), Iqbal Abdullah (Mumbai CA), Abhimanyu Mithun (KSCA), Samad Fallah (Maharashtra CA), Ishwar Choudhary (Gujarat CA), S Narwal (DDCA).
India Red: Gautam Gambhir (c, DDCA), Shikhar Dhawan (DDCA), Abhinav Mukund (TNCA), Ambati Rayudu (Baroda CA), Ashok Menaria (Rajasthan CA), Wriddhiman Saha (CAB), Jalaj Saxena (MPCA), Piyush Chawla (UPCA), Bhargava Bhatt (Baroda CA), Pankaj Singh (Rajasthan CA), Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra CA), T Sudhendra (MPCA), Yusuf Pathan (Baroda CA), R P Singh (UPCA).
