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Skipper Saurav Ganguly today said the 15-member Indian team selected for the coming one-day engagements in Pakistan was the best available in the country, but conceded that the absence of leggie Anil Kumble and pacer Ajit Agarkar would be felt.
“Both of them are outstanding players… among the best in the world… So their absence will be felt,” Ganguly said about the injured duo, who are ruled out of the five-match one day series beginning in Karachi on March 13.
“But what can be done? Both of them are injured. And there is too short a gap between our recent tour to Australia and coming engagement in Pakistan for them to recover in time,” Ganguly told reporters here after a gym session. He hoped that both the players would be fit before the three-Test series which would follow the one-dayers. “But the side that has been picked comprises the best in the country now,” he said.
