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Tom Maynard, the Surrey batsman, was given the silent treatment on his return to Cardiff last week but responded with an emotional maiden first-class hundred against his former team-mates at Glamorgan.The home side were told not to say a word when Maynard came to the crease even though the situation was perfectly set up for some ‘chat’ from the close fielders, but eventually the Glamorgan players couldn’t resist having a chirp as he finished with 123 in Surrey’s huge 575 for 7 declared.”They said they were told not to speak to me,” Maynard told ESPNcricinfo’s Switch Hit podcast. “There was a bit of silence for a while but once I got going there were a couple of guys who chirped in with some friendly banter, but nothing malicious. They were just trying to coax me into playing one of my erratic shots.”Maynard quit Glamorgan during the acrimonious winter which saw his father, Matthew, resign in protest at how the club was being run after Alviro Petersen, the South Africa batsman, had been secretly interviewed to be the new captain in place of Jamie Dalrymple. The fixture list meant an early return to Wales for Maynard jr and he was able to reach three figures for the first time as his dad watched from the stands.”It was fantastic to have him there,” he said. “I’d like to dedicate that innings to towards the family rather than anything malicious towards the management. I’d like to be something special for us to have. It was a surreal feeling especially going into the away dressing room. I’m just delighted about the outcome it’s just a shame we couldn’t win the game.”Despite wanting to remember the hundred without the baggage of what happened during the winter, Maynard isn’t shy at explaining why he left the club where his surname had become part of cricket history in Wales.”I just felt I couldn’t stay there with the people in charge and the management above the playing side,” he said. “I couldn’t stay and win games for some of the people who’d forced my father out and let the team down.”I’m still very tight with all the players and keep in touch with them a lot. That relationship is still very strong and none of the players have any animosity towards me. A lot of them sided with me and said if they’d had the opportunity to go after what happened then they would. I took advice from a couple of the players and they said I should go.”Although scoring the hundred against Glamorgan added extra meaning Maynard was just relieved to have registered his first ton having waited 38 innings. Last season he hit a low point where he could barely score a run but now feels he has a new lease of life.”To be honest it got to stage where I’d started so poorly in my first-class career that it couldn’t get any worse so I may as well go out and play freely,” he said. “It got to that stage at the back end of last year and from then on I’ve gone well. I’m looking forward to kicking on now this season.”The good news for Maynard is that he has another Championship match against Glamorgan at the end of May.

Sri Lanka have called up allrounder Farveez Maharoof and wicketkeeper Kaushal Silva to provide cover for the players who will miss the start of the England tour due to the IPL. Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed captain Tillakaratne Dilshan will be in England by May 11, but five members of the Sri Lanka squad will stay in India and are expected to arrive in time to play against England Lions, at Derby, from May 19.Malintha Warnapura, the opening batsman, who was set to cover for Dilshan had he stayed at the IPL, has been withdrawn along with stand-by fast bowler Saminda Eranga. The latter was to be a replacement for fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep but it appears likely Pradeep will travel to England early instead of remaining with Royal Challengers Bangalore where he has yet to play a match for the franchiseHowever, with Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Dilhara Fernando, Thisara Perera and Suraj Randiv not available for the Middlesex match the selectors have drafted in reinforcements.Maharoof is currently playing county cricket with Lancashire where he has made an impressive start to the season with a hundred on his debut against Somerset at Liverpool. However, the fixture list could have worked in Lancashire’s favour with them not in Championship action the week Maharoof will be needed by Sri Lanka and he may only miss one CB40 match against Somerset. He hasn’t played Test cricket since 2007.Silva, 24, is uncapped but has an impressive first-class average of 45 and will provide wicketkeeping cover for Prasanna Jayawardene.

Three days after the 58 all out fiasco against West Indies, Bangladesh’s practice session at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Monday began with a loud game that involved every member of the team. The squad, including the support staff, was divided into two groups who competed at a sort of relay race, which also involved cricket balls. Every member was involved; there was loud cheering, fighting, banter, sledging, celebrations, and noise. The plan for Tuesday is to spend the day away from cricket and have Tamim Iqbal, one of the most popular people – if not the most – in Chittagong, take the team out.Bangladesh’s next game is against England on Friday, and they know they can do with some time off to help release the pressure that the performance against West Indies, and the reactions of some of the fans, has brought. “It was just to take our mind off the last game,” Tamim said of the unusual training session. “We have been trying to do that since yesterday [Sunday]. We played some soccer and a few things today; the team is feeling better and the players are mentally fine now. We are looking forward to doing something special in the coming games.”The last game and its aftermath won’t be that easy to forget, as Jamie Siddons said yesterday. West Indies’ bus was hit by some stones, and there were reports that captain Shakib Al Hasan’s house was also attacked, incidents which Tamim condemned. “It was only one stone I think that was thrown at his [Shakib’s] place, and that became a very big issue. It’s disappointing because he is the best player in the country and the No. 1 allrounder in the world. He doesn’t deserve this treatment. I will request the public of Bangladesh to not do this silly stuff. We win one day, we lose one day, these kinds of things happen in cricket. So they need to support us in good times as well as bad times.”Tamim said that the reaction will not affect his or his team’s game. “We have seen enough of this kind of thing, so it won’t play any role on my mind. I know one thing: if we do something special on March 11 everything is going to be fine.”It is Tamim who the side will be looking to to provide them with a start that helps them forget the last match. It is personally a big match for him; a World Cup match at home. “It is very big for me, and also for Chittagong. It will take Chittagong to the next level I am sure.”Tamim knows his role is important but doesn’t agree with the notion that the team rely on him too much going into every big game. “We have got a couple of very good players in our team. I know I need to perform in every game and that is my goal. But I don’t think the team relies on just me. I need to give them a solid start, and after that they can build a foundation. Players like Mushfiqur [Rahim] and Raqibul [Hasan] didn’t have a great game on Friday, but I am sure they are capable of making big scores and will do it in the next game.”

Paul Collingwood breezed from table to table during England’s open media session in Dhaka. He wore a permanent smile and certainly didn’t look like a man with major issues on his shoulders. Becoming a father for the third time after the birth of Hannah-Mae a few days before the team departed for Bangladesh has allowed Collingwood to arrive in fine spirits despite the continued issues over his one-day place.After a poor Ashes series he decided to retire from Test cricket but then lost his 50-over place as well. Then a back injury forced him home from Australia a few days earlier, but it worked in his favour and allow him extra time with the family. Now Collingwood wants to start the next, and possibly final, stage of his international career at the World Cup.”There is no added pressure,” he said. “I just have to focus on the white ball now and I want to take my game in one-dayers and Twenty20 to the next level. I would like to draw a line under whatever has happened in the last few months. It is not the twilight of my career and I’ve had four bad patches in the last decade. Some would say it’s a lot and some would say it wasn’t too many.”However, Collingwood has had a poor time of late. Firstly, England’s successful Ashes campaign wasn’t very successful on a personal level and his limited-overs form also deserted him as he made 53 runs in four matches against Australia. His back problems may prevent him making an immediate return in the warm-up games but he is confident of returning to form as he has done in the past.”I didn’t have a tour I wanted in Australia from a personal point of view but it has happened before and I have bounced back. I took consecutive man-of-the-match awards [at the Champions Trophy] so it can all change,” he said. “I still think I can make good contributions for England and hopefully this will be the tournament where I can turn around.”And Collingwood, 34, believes the extra time away from the international game having shelved Test cricket will keep him ready for more one-day challenges. “I will get more time to be mentally refreshed. I have been playing three forms of the game since Twenty20s came about six years ago so it has been tough. I need that extra bit of time to recharge the batteries.”England prepare for the World Cup by facing Canada on February 16 at Fatullah and then take on Pakistan at the same venue two days later. Some of the other teams are experimenting by using most of their squads in the warm-up games but, following on from their attitude ahead of the Ashes, England are keen to take the games seriously. “The warm-up game will be a real fixture. We want to win the game and not take anyone lightly.”Although not the best team in the world England can’t be written off in this tournament and the man who played in the 2003 and 2007 campaigns certainly believes this team is different. “It is a skilful side but difficult to say whether it’s the best [among the three campaigns] or not. But we have won one-day series in the last 18 months so it will take confidence from that.”Collingwood will also take confidence from his role as Twenty20 captain, particularly after England won the World Twenty20 last year which finally gave them their first global trophy.”We got that off our back,” he said. “We had come close a few times but now we know that we have the skills to get over it mentally.”

Sean Ervine’s departure from Zimbabwe’s World Cup squad will have come as a massive blow to the team’s planning and morale ahead of the tournament. His presence would have helped to shore up a brittle middle order, as well as providing an extra option with the ball, and without Ervine in their line-up Zimbabwe may well have to consider a re-shuffling of the batting order.With the elder Ervine batting somewhere between No. 4 and 6, Charles Coventry had seemed the candidate most likely to be shunted up the order as a pinch-hitting opener, with Hamilton Masakadza and Chamu Chibhabha – Brendan Taylor’s partners at the top of the innings in recent times – both left out of the squad.”I am both excited and a little bit surprised as well, but I think this is my best chance to do well after the selectors showed faith in me by recalling me into the national team,” Coventry told the before Ervine’s announcement.”Opening the innings with Taylor will be a big challenge but it’s one I have set myself for since the rumour started making the rounds. Facing the new ball is a tough challenge. I have done it before at provincial level but internationally it’s a different thing altogether, especially facing teams like Australia and Pakistan.”Ervine’s departure prompted Zimbabwe Cricket to approach the ICC Event Technical Committee to seek approval for batsman Tino Mawoyo as a replacement. An opening batsman by trade, Mawoyo had been part of Zimbabwe’s non-travelling reserves. Both he and Regis Chakabva could be prevailed upon to partner Taylor, while Sean Williams may well slot into the middle order as he provides another left-handed option and is proficient in playing spin.Whatever happens, Zimbabwe will go into the competition with an experimental opening pair that will be their fourth combination in the last 12 months. Masakadza and Vusi Sibanda were asked to do the job during the series against West Indies in March last year, with Masakadza and Taylor opening during the home tri-series that followed, with some success. With Masakadza registering just eight runs in three innings against Ireland in September, Chibhabha was pushed up the order in the second ODI against South Africa in October after a pair of confident half-centuries against them in the Twenty20s.He struggled to adapt his game to the 50-over format, however, and after a 53-run opening stand in the nine-run win over Bangladesh in the first match of their series in December he failed to build anything substantial in the matches which followed. When Masakadza was brought back into the line-up for the last game of the series he scratched around for 20 balls before being trapped in front of his stumps by Mashrafe Mortaza.Without a clear candidate to partner Taylor, and seeking to minimize the disruption caused by Ervine’s last minute change of heart, Zimbabwe may well decide to stick to what was rumoured to be the original plan and open with Coventry. He has had a stop-start international career, however, and has yet to show more than brief flashes of the talent that brought him an unbeaten 194 against Bangladesh – made from No. 3.”To be honest Charles Coventry has been a hugely frustrating guy to deal with,” chairman of selectors Alistair Campbell was moved to say recently. “We have put in so much effort in developing him but he hasn’t been performing. But we hope that he can be the X-factor to deliver the big innings. We will try him at the top and we will also see how Chakabva responds to being promoted to the top as well.”Coventry doesn’t deny that he is yet to do his talent justice, and insists he has been working hard on the technical frailties in his batting in preparation for the World Cup. “I have gone out a few times when everyone including me felt I could have kept my wicket and batted through,” he added. “This is what they [the selectors] want me to do but I think a few times I have gone for big shots and got myself dismissed unnecessarily. I have to work on that and I think I will give a better show at the World Cup.”We have to take the game to our opponents, play attacking cricket and not let them bully us. We are capable of beating anyone; we have shown that before by beating Australia at the Twenty20 World Cup. It’s going to be tough but if we apply ourselves fully we can go through to the next round.”Coventry’s bullish statements were echoed by national captain Elton Chigumbura, who hinted that Zimbabwe – needing to win at least three group games in order to go through to the Quarter Finals – would target New Zealand.”We will fancy our chances against New Zealand who struggled the last time they were in the subcontinent,” said Chigumbura. “They lost all their matches against Bangladesh and they clearly struggled against spin. We have a very good spin attack, so we will capitalise on their frailties and hopefully we will get a positive result.”Zimbabwe will also be hoping for more consistent performances from their captain, who suffered a startling loss of form with both bat and ball last season. “I have had a loss of form, but I know I am just an innings away from getting back to my best,” he added. “I have been working hard on that and I have also been working on my bowling with Heath Streak.”

Chris Woakes, the Warwickshire allrounder, has been given a chance to press for a World Cup place, after being named as the only uncapped player in England’s 17-man squad for next month’s one-day and Twenty20 matches against Australia. Chris Tremlett also returns into the limited-overs set-up for the first time in two years, but there’s no place for Ravi Bopara, who has been dropped from the squad that played against Pakistan in September, in favour of Ian Bell.Geoff Miller, the national selector, announced the squad during the tea interval of England’s three-day warm-up fixture against Victoria, and admitted that, while the team’s current focus remains solely on retaining the Ashes, the proximity of the World Cup – which gets underway on February 19 – has forced them to name their strongest possible line-up, with the only first-choice omission being the injured Stuart Broad, who is expected to have recovered from a torn stomach muscle in time for the business end of the tournament.”With Broad ruled out of the series we’ve needed to bolster our pace bowling stocks and Chris Woakes comes into the squad after knocking on the door for some time,” said Miller. “Chris will be hungry for his international debut and vying for a place with a number of other quality pace bowlers. He’s put in some good performances for Warwickshire, he’s gone through the channels of the Lions and the Performance Programme, and has performed well this winter. He merits his selection, and the options are there to go in whichever direction we want to go.”When asked if there had been any temptation to rest key personnel ahead of the World Cup, Miller admitted that it was not an option, given that England have now won five consecutive series since the tour of South Africa last winter, and will want to go to the subcontinent in February with that winning streak extended. “You couldn’t do that,” he said. “You’ve still got to keep the momentum, the lads playing together and finding out their roles within the side.”It’s really difficult when you’ve got series after series, following each other so quickly,” he added. “But that’s always been the case, and it will maybe continue to be so. There are one or two players in the squad who are not involved in the Ashes, so they can actually focus on the World Cup now, but those who are involved here and then have to adapt later, it’s really tough. That’s been taken into consideration by the management, but at the moment, the priority is the Test series, then we’ll move on to the one-dayers.”In keeping with the recent precedent, Andrew Strauss has been named as captain of the 50-overs squad, but will hand over the Twenty20 reins to Paul Collingwood, England’s victorious captain at the World Twenty20 in May this year. Craig Kieswetter, who was England’s Man of the Match in the final against Australia, has been retained for that format alone, with Steve Davies once again named ahead of the Test specialist Matt Prior as England’s only wicketkeeper for the ODI series.”Matt is not being overlooked,” said Miller. “He’s made it clear he still wants to play one-day cricket, and we will continue to monitor him, but he has been given the opportunity before, both up the order and in the middle order. He was left out and we brought someone else in, and we will continue in that vein of consistency. We’ll find out how these two go over a period of time.”Bopara is also running out of chances to force his way into the World Cup reckoning, having made a favourable impression during an otherwise disastrous England campaign in the 2007 tournament. But with Kevin Pietersen back in form after being dropped from the Pakistan series, and Ian Bell fully recovered after the foot injury that interrupted his home summer, there was no room for him on this occasion, despite his undoubted potential as a match-winner.”We had a long discussion about Ravi,” said Miller. “He’s still very much in our thoughts and we know what he’s capable of doing, but at this moment in time he’s out playing in South Africa and will continue to do that. We’re quite confident that this squad can do a job for us here, and it may be able to do it in the World Cup as well, but it doesn’t close the door to anyone else.”England ODI and T20 squads Andrew Strauss* (ODI capt), Paul Collingwood (T20 capt), James Anderson, Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Steve Davies (wk), Eoin Morgan, Craig Kieswetter** (wk), Kevin Pietersen, Ajmal Shahzad, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Chris Tremlett, Jonathan Trott, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy* ODIs only, ** Twenty20s only

Despite putting up a big first innings score, Haryana’s ambition of making the semi-finals is in danger of being thwarted by the fog that has marred their quarter-final against Tamil Nadu in Rohtak. A net run-rate rule will come into play on the final day tomorrow. According to the rule, if a minimum of thirty overs are bowled in TN’s first innings, the team that has the higher net run-rate in this game will go through to the semi-finals. If, however, the fog does not allow even that many overs to be completed, the net run-rate from the league stage will apply.Haryana declared their first innings on the overnight score of 379 for 6 today in a bid to get in some overs, and had TN on 72 for 2 in the 24 overs that were possible today. TN, who are currently going at three runs an over need to score above 3.26 runs per over, which is the rate Haryana managed in their innings. But the rule goes against Haryana in that they maintained that rate over 116 overs, while TN will go ahead even if they can marginally better that rate in 30 overs. “We have played so consistently over so many overs. It’s easier to score say, 120 in 30 overs but far more difficult to make 400 in 100,” Ashwini Kumar, the Haryana coach, told ESPNcricinfo. “It rankles somewhere that it had to come down to this rule. There should be some rule like Duckworth-Lewis or any other rule that is acceptable to both teams.” Haryana have had two outright wins in six games in the league stage compared to TN’s one win in seven games. Both teams had 17 points each.Ashwini said there was a thick blanket of fog over Rohtak today evening, and they were hoping to have some clear weather tomorrow. “First of all, we have to bowl the remaining six overs (to make it 30 for the innings). It’s really tough to decide on the strategy right now. We’ll take it tomorrow as it comes.”

The IPL governing council has deferred its final decision on Kochi franchise to December 5. Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president, said that the Kochi owners had submitted their reply on Saturday evening to the board’s termination notice asking them to resolve their differences. He said the council did not have enough time to review Kochi’s response at its meeting in Nagpur on Sunday morning, and will seek the board’s lawyers’ opinion before taking any decision.”They submitted a new ownership pattern yesterday,” Manohar said at a media conference, immediately after the hour-long meeting. “We had no time to examine it. All of you are aware that everyday we are in court in a legal battle and hence we would like to have the opinion of our legal experts before we take any decision.”As part of the new agreement Rendezvous Sports, the promoters of the franchise, have agreed to shrink their ownership stake to allow the rival investors group to have a bigger say in running of the company, which will be now called Kochi IPL Cricket Pvt. Ltd. “They have entered into an MoU whereby the stakes of Rendezvous is diluted from 26% to 10%,” Manohar said. “They have also given various affidavits which all need to be looked into.”A BCCI insider told ESPNcricinfo that the board was being cautious with Kochi because they had received conflicting letters over the last three days. “If we [the BCCI] had gone ahead based on the document today and if we had found something missing later it wouldn’t have looked good. A problem which could not be solved for months together suddenly seemed resolved. It would look very foolish if we were to re-visit this issue couple of days later. So, as part of any good administrative practice we have decided to verify everything.”He also said that the one-week extension did not mean the board was thinking of getting a replacement team through a fresh auction process.”We can’t just throw them out for no reason. If we are convinced their reasoning is healthy and they have put a good company structure in place, they will stay on board.”This latest patch-up among the owners is a fresh twist to the long-running saga at the Kochi franchise which has been riven with differences right from its day of inception. The biggest problem has been the ownership pattern with the investors unhappy about the promoters holding 26% of sweat equity. The investors in the consortium – Anchor Earth, Parinee Developers, Rosy Blue and Film Wave -hold 74% of the equity. The remaining 26% has been given to the Gaikwad family – Shailendra, his brother Ravi and their parents plus a few others, all part of Rendezvous Sports World – as free equity for services rendered in successfully bidding for the franchise.The league’s governing council, at its emergency meeting on October 27, felt Kochi was far from resolving those issues and issued a notice asking both factions to explain why the franchise should not be scrapped.The chances of both factions reaching a compromise seemed bleak when the investors sent a letter on Wednesday to Manohar, stating that they were withdrawing support to the franchise because of the inability to resolve the problems with the promoters.

Scorecard
Collins Obuya made a patient 65•International Cricket Council

Kenya moved to an unassailable 2-0 lead after left-arm spinner Shem Ngoche ripped through the UAE middle-order to secure victory at the Mombasa Sports Club ground. Kenya’s batting star was 29-year-old Collins Obuya, who made a gritty 65 to guide them past 200, a total which proved to be just enough.Obuya was involved in two steadying stands after Kenya’s openers fell early to quick bowler Shoaib Sarwar. First, there was a 63-run partnership with veteran Steve Tikolo for the third wicket, after which he added 73 for the fourth with Mumbai-born 23-year-old Tanmay Mishra.Kenya suffered a collapse after that, losing five wickets for nine runs to stumble to 175 for 8, 39-year-old left-arm spinner Mohammad Tauqir doing most of the damage. They were eventually bowled out for 204, with Tauqir taking 5 for 45, his best List A figures.UAE lost opener Amjad Ali for 8, but Arshad Ali and Swapnil Patil steered them to a strong 82 for 1. Then it was time for UAE to wobble, losing four quick wickets, before Arfan Haider (36) helped them claw back to 133 for 5. It was anybody’s game at that stage, but Kenya took control with three wickets for 23 runs. Tauqir nearly saved UAE with a quickfire 30 which evened the game at 187 for 8, but Kenya managed to pick the final two wickets and close out a narrow victory.The third of the four one-dayers is on Thursday.

Match Facts

Friday, October 1, Jaipur
Start time 0930 am (0400 GMT)Yuvraj Singh will have a point to prove after being axed from the Test squad•AFP

The Big Picture

The storied Irani Cup, once the curtain-raiser for the cricket season in India, has this year been consigned to a sideshow, as it coincides exactly with the first Test between India and Australia in Mohali. Not that it will make much of a difference to those on the fringes of the Indian team, who will use the chance to impress the national selectors.There are the usual suspects like S Badrinath, who must be wondering what has gone wrong with his fledgling Test career. After playing in the home series against South Africa this year, he now stands behind Suresh Raina and Cheteshwar Pujara in the fight for the No. 6 slot.It was Sourav Ganguly’s non-selection for the Irani Cup two years ago that eventually opened up a position in the fortress that India’s middle-order has been in recent years. That no one has since claimed that spot as his own only shows what a huge hole remains to be filled once the other three slots fall vacant.The Rest of India side is filled with batsmen who are potential Test candidates when the stalwarts currently occupying the Indian middle-order retire. While Shikhar Dhawan and Abhinav Mukund had fine tours of England with the A team, Virat Kohli has become a regular member of the one-day squad and Saurabh Tiwary has also been a part of the senior squad for the past couple of ODI series.The captain, Yuvraj Singh, hasn’t hidden his disappointment at being axed from the Test side. The selectors wanted him to play this game to get some match practice before the ODIs against Australia but this is his chance to prove he is still worthy of a Test place.Meanwhile, the composition of the pace attack shows who are the current flavours in India’s revolving-door approach towards fast bowling. Last year’s squad had Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Sudeep Tyagi and Sreesanth. While Sreesanth is away on national duty in Mohali, none of the other three are in this year’s squad (Munaf is not in any of the three Challenger Trophy teams as well). They have been replaced by Saurashtra’s Jaydev Unadkat, Vidarbha’s Umesh Yadav, and the Karnataka pair of Vinay Kumar and Abhimanyu Mithun. Unadkat and Yadav didn’t do too well against the Australians in the tour game in Chandigarh, and would be hoping for a better show in Jaipur.The other team, Mumbai, have now finished runners-up in their five previous appearances in the Irani Cup. The 39-time Ranji Trophy champions are not used to finishing second-best so often. Wasim Jaffer, their captain, is keen to add another trophy to his already large collection of domestic titles. “I am aware that we have not won the Irani Trophy for the past 12 years and we would give our best to break the jinx.”While Pujara’s 60-plus first-class average has been highlighted before, and after, his Test call-up, Ajinkya Rahane would feel that an average of almost five runs more than Pujara should keep him in the reckoning if the selectors are looking for a top-order batsman. An unbeaten century against the Australians in Chandigarh has further bolstered his case. Another big innings would do his prospects no harm. It’s also time for a certain Rohit Sharma to show why he had been considered as a possible replacement for Ganguly at one time.

Squads

Rest of India (from): Yuvraj Singh (capt), Abhinav Mukund, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, S Badrinath, Saurabh Tiwary, Parthiv Patel (wk), Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun and Ravindra Jadeja
Mumbai (from): Wasim Jaffer (capt), Ajit Agarkar, Omkar Gurav, Harmeet Singh, Murtuza Hussain, Iqbal Abdulla, Omkar Khanvilkar, Sahil Kukreja, Dhawal Kulkarni, Usman Malvi, Sushant Marathe (wk), Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma

Quotes

“I am not aware what goes around. I too was surprised at not being chosen. I am not aware why I was axed.”
“We have become used to their absence. Due to the busy international calendar they often skip domestic matches.”