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India shake up squad

Tendulkar's Tests depend on fitness

AFP, Mumbai
Indian selectors Saturday axed experienced players Anil Kumble, Venkatsai Laxman and Zaheer Khan for an upcoming one-day tri-series in Zimbabwe also featuring New Zealand.
The selection committee made the changes after an indifferent showing by the team in a tri-series in Sri Lanka, where they lost to the hosts by 18 runs in the final. A second-string West Indies were the third side in the tournament.
Leg-spinner Anil Kumble and middle-order batsman Laxman have not been regulars in one-day sides but left-arm seamer Zaheer was only dropped because of fitness problems in recent months.
Although all three will miss the tri-series from August 24 to September 6, they remain part of the squad for a two-Test series against Zimbabwe from September 13.
Zaheer's place has been taken by rookie Rudra Pratap Singh, a 19-year-old from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who is also a left-arm paceman.
Rudra Pratap was impressive in the domestic circuit last season, finishing with 41 wickets in eight games. Suresh Raina, Venugopal Rao and Jai Prakash Yadav retained their spots.
Also making a comeback into the one-day squad are left-arm spinner Murali Kartik and Mumbai all-rounder Ajit Agarkar, while paceman Laxmipathy Balaji was omitted for the one-dayers but included for the Tests.
For the Test matches, star batsman Sachin Tendulkar was included subject to fitness after undergoing an operation on his elbow in London this May.
"Sachin's fitness will be ascertained towards the end of the tri-series. If he is not found fit, a replacement will be named," said Karunakaran Nair, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The first Test starts on September 13.
Tendulkar, 32, has been troubled by a 'tennis elbow' over the past year, forcing him to skip many one-dayers.
Laxman was plagued by back trouble in Sri Lanka while Kumble, India's most successful bowler who has struggled for a regular ODI spot in the last two years, conceded 64 runs in 10 wicketless overs in the final against Sri Lanka.
But the exclusion of Balaji, who played only one game in the Sri Lankan tri-series, came as a surprise.
Teams
ONE-DAY: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Rahul Dravid (vice-captain), Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Venugopal Rao, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, Rudra Pratap Singh and Jai Prakash Yadav.
TEST: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Rahul Dravid (vice-captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Venkatsai Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Dinesh Kaarthick, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Laxmipathy Balaji, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Ashish Nehra.