Chennai, Sep 16 (Inditop.com) Virender Sehwag will lead Rest of India against Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai in the Irani Trophy match at Nagpur from Oct 1-5.
Sehwag, who had a shoulder surgery in June, has been out of action since then. He is also not playing in the Champions Trophy, scheduled from Sep 22-Oct 5.
Tamil Nadu’s Subramaniam Badrinath is the vice-captain while West Bengal’s Wriddhiman Saha will keep the wickets.
The BCCI also announced the squad for the N.K. P. Salve Challenger series, which will also take place at Nagpur, from Oct 8-11.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will lead India Blue, Yuvraj Singh will captain India Red while Suresh Raina is India Green skipper.
Announcing the teams, Secretary Board of Control for cricket in India N. Srinivasan said in a release that Gautam Gambhir, who had to return to India from Sri Lanka due to a groin injury, will have his fitness assessed Thursday.
Rest of India: Virender Sehwag (captain), Subramanium Badrinath (vice-captain), Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), M. Vijay, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha, Manoj Tiwari, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Abhinav Mukund, Irfan Pathan, Uday Kaul, Sudeep Tyagi.
Challenger series:
India Blue: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Yusuf Pathan, Naman Ojha, Wasim Jaffer, Harbhajan Singh, Jalaj Saxena, Siddharth Trivedi, Suresh Kumar, S. Sreesanth, Kedar Jadhav, Ashok Dinda, Abhishek Nayar, Sreevats Goswami.
India Red: Yuvraj Singh (captain), Wriddiman Saha (wk), M. Vijay, R. Ashwin, Sunny Sohail, Sudeep Tyagi, Shikhar Dhawan, Munaf Patel, Ishant Jaggi, S. S. Tiwari Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvanesh Kumar, H. Khadiwale.
India Green: Suresh Raina (captain), Irfan Pathan, Ajinkya Rahane, Parthiv Patel (wicket-keeper), Tanmay Srivastava, S. K. Jakati, Ravi Inder Singh, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni, Manoj Tiwari, S. Badrinath, Pankaj Singh, Chetanya Nanda, Uday Kaul
