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MUMBAI, Aug 2: Indian cricket selectors retained Saurav Ganguly as skipper for next month’s ICC Champions trophy tournament in Sri Lanka, a top cricket official said Friday.
Ganguly led his side to an impressive win in a one-day tri-series also including Sri Lanka in England where India are currently engaged in a four-Test series.
“We selected Ganguly because he is going good,” Niranjan Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told reporters after a selection committee meeting.
But Shah said any extension of Ganguly’s tenure will be done by a fresh selection committee which will take over next month.
“He could have been selected right up to the World Cup but the committee is changing in September,” he said.
The selectors also announced a list of 20 probables, which will be pruned to 14 ahead of the August 12 deadline for submitting the final squad to the ICC.
India, England and Zimbabwe are in pool 2 in the 12-team event held every two years.
THE PROBABLES:
Saurav Ganguly (captain), Dinesh Mongia, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra, Parthiv Patel, Ajay Ratra, Vangipurappu Laxman, Murali Kartik, Jai Prakash Yadav, Sanjay Bangar, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Tinu Yohannan.—Reuters
