Battle between depleted sides

Madhya Pradesh, who have 13 points from three games, will also be without one of their main bowlers, off-spinner Rajesh Chauhan, who is in the Indian squad for the second Test. Left-hand batsman and vice-captain Amay Khurasia is in the India A8217; team to take on the Australians in a three-day game starting at Jamshedpur tomorrow. Batsman Syed Abbas Ali is presently in Pakistan asmember of the India A8217; team.

Both Vijay Yadav and Chandrakant Pandit exuded confidence of playing positive cricket to gain maximum points from their last encounter. Another contender for the top two spots in the group to make it to the quarter-finals, Hyderabad, have collected 16 points from three games, the same as Haryana.

Haryana from: Vijay Yadav captain, Jitender Singh, Parinder Sharma, Dhanraj Singh, Amarjeet Kaypee, Shafiq Khan, Ishan Ganda, Pankaj Thakur, Pradeep Jain, Manish Sakhalkar, Vineet Jain, Ravinder Nain, Sanjay Dalal, Sonu Sharma, Amit Aggarwal.

Madhya Pradesh from: Chandrakant Pandit captain, Nikhil Patwardhan, Devendra Bundela, J P Yadav, Manish Majithia, Prashant Dwivedi, N Acharya, Kirti Patel, Narendra Hirwani, Sunil Lahore, S Pandey, H S Sodhi, Raja Ali.

Umpires: L P Verma and A Bhattacharjee.