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The selection committee of India's cricket board Tuesday picked 36 probables for the tri-series in Sri Lanka beginning next month.
Announcing the 36 names, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary S.K. Nair told reporters the probables would attend training camps to be held in the coming weeks at the National Cricket Academy here.
"The fast bowlers will attend the first physical conditioning camp to be held during June 27-July 4. The second conditioning camp for the short-listed players will be held from July 4-12, followed by the final camp for the selected squad from July 13-22," Nair said.
The list of probables includes Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Mohammed Kaif, Yuvraj Singh, V.V.S. Laxman, Dinesh Mongia, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Venugopala Rao, Neeraj Patel, Dheeraj Jadhav, M.S. Dhoni, Dinesh Karthick, Parthiv Patel and Anil Kumble.
The others are Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, S. Sriram, Hemang Badani, Zaheer Khan, Laxmipathy Balaji, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, Gagandeep Singh, S.S. Paul, Ranadeb Bose, Harbinder Singh, Amit Bhandari, Siddharth Triveni, Sreeshanth, Joginder Sharma, Munaf Patel, J.P. Yadav and Jesuraj.
The selection panel, led by chairman Kiran More, deliberated over the names for more than three hours before finalising the 36 probables.
Other members of the panel are Pranay Roy, Yashpal Sharma, Gopal Sharma and V.B. Chandrashekar.
The triangular series will be played in Sri Lanka from July 26. Besides India and Sri Lanka, West Indies will be the third country in the tourney.
Earlier, the selection committee interacted with coach Greg Chappell, who presented his views on the composition of the team for the tri-series.
"The committee deliberated on various aspects, including the three training camps beginning from next week. The coach was also given feedback on the performance of the Indian team over the past year," Nair said.
The selectors exempted skipper Sourav Ganguly, Dinesh Mongia, Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan from the first two training camps as they are away in England for their county engagements.