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Ganguly, Agarkar dropped

January 21, 2006 10:50 IST
Last Updated: January 21, 2006 11:02 IST


Scorecard

For the second time in the series Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq elected to bat on what is largely viewed as another nightmare of a pitch for the bowlers, in Faisalabad.

The Indian team, as captain Rahul Dravid [Images] explained, decided to "be positive" and included five bowlers for the second Test against Pakistan at the Iqbal stadium on Saturday.

Sourav Ganguly [Images] was dropped to accomodate the fifth seamer -- Rudra Pratap Singh, while Ajit Agarkar [Images] made way for the third left-arm seamer in the team, Zaheer Khan [Images].

Dravid would thus be opening in the second Test too, after piling a 410-run first-wicket partnership with Virender Sehwag [Images] in Lahore [Images].

Ths hosts dropped their only wicket-taker in the first Test in Lahore, Naved-ul Hasan Rana, and Mohammed Sami to include Mohammed Asif and Abdul Razzaq [Images].

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Sachin Tendulkar [Images], VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh [Images], Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] (wicketkeeper), Irfan Pathan [Images], Anil Kumble [Images], Harbhajan Singh [Images], Zaheer Khan, Rudra Pratap Singh

Pakistan: Inzamam-ul-Haq [Images] (captain), Younis Khan, Mohammed Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar [Images], Shahid Afridi [Images], Shoaib Malik [Images], Salman Butt [Images], Kamran Akmal, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Asif [Images].

Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (South Africa) and Simon Taufel (Australia).

Match Referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka [Images])


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