Mumbai [ Images ] batsman Rohit Sharma [ Images ] will captain the Board President's XI in a two-day warm-up match against the visiting South African team beginning at Nagpur on Tuesday.
The squad also includes youngster Manish Pandey [ Images ], Ajinkya Rahane [ Images ], Cheteshwar Pujara [ Images ] and Shikhar Dhawan [ Images ], while Abhimanyu Mithun [ Images ], who has also been included in India's [ Images ] 15-member squad for the first Test, will spearhead the pace department along with Punjab [ Images ] seamer Manpreet Gony.
The South Africans will play two Tests -- Nagpur (February 6-10) and Kolkata [ Images ] (February 14-18) -- and three One-Day Internationals in Jaipur [ Images ], Kanpur and Ahmedabad [ Images ] during their month-long tour of India.
Board President's XI team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Abhinav Mukund, Partiv Patel (w/k), Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Cheteshwar Pujara, Abhishek Nayar [ Images ], Piyush Chawla [ Images ], R Ashwin, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Shikhar Dhawan, Umesh Yadav, Manpreet Gony.
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