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Saurashtra meets Punjab

Rajkot: Cheteshwar Pujara has been in good form for Saurashtra this season. But Pujara will face a test against Punjab’s robust seam attack in Manpreet Gony and Gangandeep Singh in the third round of the National cricket championship that gets underway here from Sunday.

Punjab captain Pankaj Dharmani said his young team would be facing Saurashtra for the first time in the championship and he has had a look at Pujara and Jadeja’s batting on television. Sunny Sohail (110 against Delhi and 106 against Rajasthan) has been in sizzling form and some of the others too have been in good nick, so have been seamers Manpreet Gony and Gagandeep Singh.

The teams (from): Punjab: Pankaj Dharmani (capt.), Karan Goel, Ravinder Singh, Sunny Sohal, Ravneet Ricky, Ankur Kakkar, Taruwar Kohli, Uday Kaul, Siddharth Kaul, Amanpreet Singh, Manpreet Gony, Gagandeep Singh, Charanjit Singh, Sarabjit Ladda and Varun Khanna.

Saurashtra: Jaydev Shah (capt.), Sagar Jogiani, Kanaiya Waghela, Sitanshu Kotak, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Pratik Metha, Balkrishna Jadeja, Bhushan Chauhan, Sandeep Jobanputra, Sandip Maniar, Rakesh Dhruv, Kamlesh Makwana, M. Dodia and Jayesh Odedra.

Umpries: G.A. Pratapkumar and Sameer Bandekar; Match Referee: Sunil Gudge. — Special Correspondent

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