Striker Baichung Bhutia has been named in the 24-member probables list for the World Cup qualifying match against Oman and a friendly against Kuwait.
The players will attend a coaching camp in New Delhi from October 26 and will play a friendly against Kuwait in their capital on November 5 before the away World Cup qualifier on November 17, an All India Football Federation statement said on Monday.
Bhutia had missed India's earlier World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Singapore due to a knee injury.
The list of probables contain as many as seven players from Mumbai's Mahindra United and six from East Bengal.
The probables:
Goalkeepers: Sangram Mukherjee, Subhashish Roy Chowdhary, Prasanto Dora, Sandep Nandi
Defenders: Deepak Mondal, Gurjinder Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Debabrata Roy, Vinu Jose, Habibur Mondal.
Midfielders: Alvito D'Cunha, Jerry Zirsanga, Sameer Naik, Tomba Singh, Venkatesh Shanmugan, Stevan Dias, Climax Lawrence, Jatin Bist, Rennedy Singh.
Forwards: Abhishek Yadav, Baichung Bhutia, Vimal Pariyar, R C Prakash, Ashim Biswas.
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