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Sehwag to lead

NEW DELHI, FEB. 3. Virender Sehwag will lead a 15-member North Zone team in the Duleep Trophy to be held at various centres in Central Zone.

At a selection committee meeting held at Chandigarh on Wednesday, the selectors Yashpal Sharma, Daljit Singh, S. Sriram, Ashok Dutt, Anurag Thakur and Rajinder Goel picked a team that includes six players from Punjab, five from Delhi and two each from Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The committee also decided that in the event of Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra being called for national duty against Pakistan, the replacements will be Yashpal Singh, Vishal Bhatia, Ashok Thakur and Reetender Singh Sodhi.

The team: Virender Sehwag (captain), Dinesh Mongia (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Aakash Chopra, Ravneet Ricky, Yuvraj Singh, Sangram Singh, Manvinder Singh Bisla, Ashish Nehra, Gagandeep Singh, Amit Bhandari, Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra, Harbhajan Singh and Pankaj Dharmani; Manager: Surender Khanna; S Yashpal Singh, Vishal Bhatia, Ashok Thakur and R. S. Sodhi; Standbys: Mithun Manhas, V. R. V. Singh, Abid Nabi, Vikram Malik, Dhruv Mahajan and Ajay Ratra.

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