July 09, 2008	Wednesday	Rajab 5, 1429

MUMBAI, July 8: India’s cricket selectors on Tuesday left out batsmen Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly for the ICC Champions Trophy tournament in September, raising doubts over the veterans’ one-day careers.

The former captains were not included among the 30 probables announced for the Sept 11-28 tournament in Pakistan, despite scoring more than 10,000 runs in One-day Internationals.

Left-handed Ganguly, who turned 36 on Tuesday, is the world’s fourth-highest scorer with 11,363 runs in 311 matches with 22 centuries. He played his last one-dayer in November 2007.

Dravid, 35, has also not played a one-dayer this year as selectors look to build a team for the 2011 World Cup to be held in South Asia. His last match was in October 2007. Dravid has scored 10,585 runs in 333 one-dayers with 12 hundreds.

India’s Sachin Tendulkar, Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya, Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq, Australian Ricky Ponting and West Indian Brian Lara are the other batsmen to have completed 10,000 runs in the shorter version of the game.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is India’s one-day and Twenty20 captain, while veteran spinner Anil Kumble leads the Test side.

Probables: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla, Rudra Pratap Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Manpreet Gony, Pragyan Ojha, Parthiv Patel, Dinesh Karthik, Subramaniam Badrinath, Mohammad Kaif, Manoj Tiwary, Abhishek Nayar, Pankaj Singh, Murali Kartik, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Yusuf Pathan, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.—AFP