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Azharuddin, Jadeja among hopefuls

BANGALORE, JANUARY 10: Former Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin and several other hopefuls will come under selectors' scrutiny as the Boa...

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BANGALORE, JANUARY 10: Former Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin and several other hopefuls will come under selectors’ scrutiny as the Board President’s XI take on Mumbai in the quarter-finals of the Wills Trophy tournament to be played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, here, on Tuesday.

With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) still keeping its options open on sending replacements if necessary for the triangular series currently under way in Australia, the limited-over matches assume importance. The selectors are likely to meet on Jan 19 to decide on the replacements.

Board President’s XI (from): Mohammed Azharuddin (captain), SS Das, Jyoti Yadav, Anshu Jain, S Sriram, S Sharath, Rajiv Raja, M Kartik, Vijay Dahiya, Thiru Kumaran, Aashish Nehra, Aashish Kapoor, Nilesh Modi, Sanjay Bangar

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Mumbai (from): Amol Mazumdar (captain), Jatin Paranjpe, Amol Rane, Amit Pagnis, Wasim Jaffer, Sushant Manjrekar, Sairaj Bahutule, Amit Dani, Paras Mhambrey, Santosh Saxena, Nilesh Kulkarni, Rajesh Sutar, Mandar Phadke and Sriram Kannan.

Chennai: Punjab take on Bengal in the Wills Trophy quarter-finals at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here.

The winners of this contest will take on the victors of quarter-final game between Mumbai and Board President’s XI.

Teams:

Bengal: Utpal Chatterjee, Saba Karim (wicket-keeper), Nikhil Haldipur, Rohan Gavaskar, Wrichik Majumdar, Srikanth Kalyani, Laxmi Rattan Shukla, Mainak Sengupta, Charanjeet Singh, Debdulal Majumdar, Sumit Panda, S Lahiri, Abdul Masood, Murtaza Lodhgar

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Punjab: Vikram Rathour (captain), Sandeep Sharma, Sanjay Kumar, Pankaj Dharmani, Dinesh Mongia, Harminder Jagnu (wicket-keeper), Amit Sharma, Tejinder Singh, Navdeep Singh, Sarandeep Singh, Rajender Pal Singh, Sanjay Mahajan, Harbhajan Singh, Ankur Kakkar

Umpires: MR Singh (Mumbai) and CR Mohite (Baroda)

Match referee: PR Ashok Anand (Karnataka)

Hyderabad: A young and new-look Karnataka take on Wills XI in the quarter-final of the Wills Trophy limited-overs match here on Tuesday.

Much of the focus will be on Ajay Jadeja, who is leading the Wills XI. Jadeja is recovering from a shoulder injury.

Karnataka: Sujit Somasundar (capt), Arun Kumar, Rowland Barrington, Mithun Berala, A Vijay, Tilak Naidu, Somasekar Sriguppi, Anand Yalvigi, Dodda Ganesh, Mansur Ali Khan, B Akhil, Anand Katti, GN Umesh, David Johnson

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Wills XI: Ajay Jadeja (capt), Gagan Khoda, Ashnu Dani, Virender Sehwag, P Mallik, JR Madan Gopal, G Pandey, Rahul Sanghvi, Preetam Gandhe, Manoj Mudgal, Amit Bhandari, Robin Singh (jr), Javed Zaman

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