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Azhar to lead Board President's XI

Deposed India skipper Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja will lead the Board President's XI and Wills XI teams respectively in the Wills Trophy limited-overs tournament from January 11 to 17.

The Board President's XI plays Bombay at Bangalore, while Wills meets Karnataka at Hyderabad and Bengal takes on Punjab at Chennai in three quarter-final matches on January 11.

Madhya Pradesh have been given a bye into the semi-finals which will be played on January 14 at Chennai and Bangalore.

The final will be on January 17 at Vishakapatnam.

Meanwhile Ranji Trophy opener Wasim Jaffer has found a place in Bombay's one-day side which will be without India discard Vinod Kambli, who opted out as his parents are unwell. The team will be led by Amol Muzumdar.

The teams Board President's, Wills and Bombay teams which were announced today by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in Bombay:

Board's President XI
Mohammad Azharuddin (Captain)
S.S Das (Orissa)
Jyoti Yadav (UP)
Anshu Jain (Rajasthan)
S Sriram (TN)
S Sharath (TN)
Rajiv Raja (Bihar)
M Kartik (Railways)
Vijay Dahiya (Delhi)
T. Kumaran (TN)
Ashish Nehra ( Delhi)
Ashish Kapoor ( TN)
Nilesh Modi (Gujarat)
Sanjay Bangur (Railways)

Wills XI
Ajay Jadeja (Captain)
Ghagan Khoda (Rajasthan)
Ashu Dani (Delhi)
Virendra Sehwag (Delhi)
P Malik (Orissa)
Madan Gopal (TN)
Gyanendra Pandey (UP)
Sitanshu Kotak (Saurashtra)
Rahul Sanghvi (Delhi)
P Gandhe (Vidarbha)
M Mudgal (UP)
Amit Bhandari (Delhi)
Robin Singh Jr. (Delhi)
Javed Zaman (Assam)

Bombay
Amol Muzumdar (Captain)
Jatin Paranjpe
Wasim Jaffer
Sushant Manjrekar
Amit Pagnis
Amit Dani
Rajesh Sutar
Sairaj Bahutule
Paras Mhambrey
Santosh Saxena
Nilesh Kulkarni
Mandar Phadke
Sriram Kanan
Amol Rane