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Calcutta: The Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will organise a ‘rolling
camp’ for players in Bangalore from Wednesday to September
6.
A total of 16 players — all 15
members of the squad that visited Sri Lanka plus pace bowler
Vikram Rajvir Singh — have been shortlisted ahead of the
tri-series in Kuala Lumpur.
The national selectors will choose
the squads for both the tri-series and the Champions Trophy
in Mumbai on September 3.
That VRV has been called and not
someone like Sourav Ganguly confirms that the former India
captain is not in the reckoning.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah,
however, said: “The selectors can pick someone outside
these 16 players if they so feel. These players were picked
as suggested by the coach, captain and the selection committee
chairman. Moreover, you cannot throw anyone out from the
Lanka squad since they didn’t even get to play a single
match.”
The ‘rolling camp’ will
be held in batches of five/six players. The Kuala Lumpur-bound
players will then go to Chennai for practice matches on
September 8 and 9.
The tri-series — featuring India,
Australia and the West Indies — will be played between September
12 and 24.
The “rolling camp” schedule
for the players is the following:
Aug. 30-31: Ajit Agarkar,
Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar and Mohammed Kaif.
Sept. 2-4: Munaf Patel,
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rudra Pratap Singh, Suresh Raina and
Sreesanth.
Sept. 5-6: Rahul Dravid,
Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh
Mongia and Vikram Rajvir Singh.
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