Rahul Dravid to lead Board president's XI

Rahul Dravid has recovered completely from his shoulder injury and will lead the Board president's XI against the visiting Zimbabweans in the tour opener to be held at Vijayawada from February 15 to 17.

The selectors, who met in Mumbai on Saturday to pick the team, have also named left arm medium pacer Ashish Nehra and opening batsman Gautam Gambhir (both from Delhi) in the 14-member squad.

Zimbabwe will play two Test matches and five one-dayers during their month-long tour.

The team:
Rahul Dravid (capt-Karnataka)
Abhijit Kale (Maharashtra)
Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai)
M S K Prasad (wk-Andhra)
Tinu Yohannan (Kerala)
Prasanjan Mullick (Orissa)
Sarandeep Singh (Delhi)
L Balaji (Tamil Nadu)
Ashish Nehra (Delhi)
Amit Mishra (Haryana)
Venugopal Rao (Andhra)
Gagan Khoda (Rajasthan)
Gautam Gambhir (Delhi)
Sitanshu Kotak (Saurashtra).

Mail Cricket Editor