BCCI Corporate Trophy: Yuvraj, Dhoni in rival Air India teams

New Delhi:

Team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his deputy Yuvraj Singh will represent different Air India teams in the September 1-8 BCCI Corporate Trophy.

With Air India fielding two sides in the 12-team tournament, Yuvraj will play for Air India Red team, while Dhoni will represent Air India Blue.

Yuvraj will have the likes of Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan in the Red team, which will be coached by selector Narendra Hirwani.

Apart from Dhoni, Air India 'Blue' team will also feature Mohammad Kaif, Harbhajan Singh, R P Singh and VVS Laxman. Pravin Amre was named coach of the side.

Despite missing the service of Virender Sehwag, the Oil and Natural Gas Commission will field a strong squad as well, featuring star players like Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel and Praveen Kumar.

India Cements will not be a pushover either since they would have Rahul Dravid, S Badrinath, Hemang Badani, L Balaji and Sudeep Tyagi in their ranks.

With former India captain Sourav Ganguly skipping the event, Tata Sports Club will pin hopes on the likes of Rohan Gavaskar, Ajit Agarkar and Ramesh Powar.

Mohali hosts the first match of the tournament between Air India Blue vs ITC on September 1, while the final is slated for September 8 in Bangalore.

Dharamsala and Visakhapatna are the two other venues.

Air India Red: Yuvraj Singh, Naman Ozha, Sushant Marathe, Robin Uthappa, Paul Valthaty, Suresh Raina, Ankeet Chavan, Siddharth Trivedi, Moondeep Mangela, Dhawal Kulkarni, Irfan Pathan, Rohan Kerkar, Harmeet Singh, Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Ajit Chandila, Rohit Prakash, Saurabh Netravalkar and Pritam Gandhe. Narendra Hirwani (Coach).

Air India Blue: MS Dhoni, Mohd Kaif, Dheeraj Jadhav, Vijay Dahia, Manvinder Bisla, Rajat Bhatia, Harbhajan Singh, Sachin Rana, J Arun Kumar, R P Singh, Pankaj Singh, Shafiq Khan, Chandan Madan, R Sodhi, Sonu Sharma, Vinit Jain, Monish Sharma, Kuldeep Singh, V V S Laxman and Deepak Joon. Pravin Amre(Coach).

Tata Sports Club: Rohan Gavaskar, Ajit Agarkar, Ramesh Powar, Nishit Shetty, Manoj Joglekar, Ishank Jaggi, Wilkin Mota, Usman Malvi, Abhijit Shetye, Himanshu Waigankar, Sufiyan Shaikh, Gaurav Jathar, Tushar Gharat, Pranay Gharat, Sahil Kukreja, Praful Waghela.

BSNL: Joginder Singh, Ankur Kakkar, Arindam Das, Amit Patil, Varun Kumar, Anshul Kapoor, N S Negi, BBCC Mahapatra, Sanjay Bamel, Niranjan Behera, Kamlesh Makwana, Sanjeev Kumar, Jyotiraditya Singh, Sunil Dholpure. Naresh Chander (Manager).

India Cements: Abhinav Mukund, Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, Rahul Dravid, Hemang Badani, Suresh Kumar, Sreekumar Nair, S Suresh, R Ashwin, Kamlesh, L Balaji, Sudeep Tyagi, R Naresh, R Prasanna, V Arun Kumar, P Amarnath.

Indian Oil: Wasim Jaffer, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Rajesh Pawar, Ravikant Shukla, Mandar Phadke, Amit Dani, Mithun Beerala, Aditya Tare, Murtuza Hussain, Rohan Raje, Vikrant Yeligeti, Pinal Shah, Paresh Patel, Anand Rajan. Balwinder Singh Sandhu (coach).

AIPSSB: Debasish Mohanty Yogesh Sachdeva, Akash Malhotra, Paras Dogra, Rajinder Bisht, A W Zaidi, Pankahj Thakur, Sanjay Pandey, Dharminder Phagna, Arun Singh Yadev, Nishant Sharma, Jagdish Shetty, Mangesh Darekar, Nilesh Patwardhan, Yogesh Dicholkar, Kuljit Singh.

Indian Revenue: Amay Khurasia, A V Sandip, Dev Raj Patil, Abhishek Chakraborty, Avik Chowdhury, Rajesh Kanojia, Hiken Shah, Amit Velaskar, Ajinkya Joshi, Ameya Shrikhande, Love Ablish, Rakesh Bhadrapur, Sangram Bagul, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Sharma and Prakash Bhatt (Manager).

ONGC: Gautam Gambhir, Sandeep Sharma, Gagan Khoda, Radhey Shyam, Virat Kohli, Mithun Manhas, Ajay Ratra, Amit Mishra, Praveen Gupta, Sarandeep Singh, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Amit Bhandari, Sumit Narwal. Feroz Ghayas (Manager).

ITC: Bablu Kumar, Pankaj Joshi, Pradeep Chawla, Bipul Sharma, Parvinder Singh, Amardeep Sonkar, Abid Khan, Tushar Pant, Micheal Vishal, Vipan Kumar, Vishal Tyagi, Gokul Kaushik, Mohit Sharma, Ashok Menaria, Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Raghvendra Pathak (Manager).

MRF: S Sriram, Y Venugopal Rao, Y Gnaneswara Rao, V Yomahesh, Prasanth Chandran, X Thalaivan Sargunam, Sunny Gupta, P B Anand, M Senthilnathan (Player cum Manager), S Thilak, S Senthilkumar, Edward Kennedy A, A Arif, P Kumar, Vikarm Dahiya, P K Dharma.

BPCL: Vinayak Samant, Shitanshu Kotak, Sairaj Bahutule, Aavishkar Salvi, Onkar Khanvilkar, Vinit Indulkar, Rajesh Verma, Kiran Adhav, S Sreesanth, Abhishek Nayar, Anup Revendkar, Uday Kaul, Pragyan Ojha, Manish Pandey, Vinayak Mane. Sangram Sawant (Coach cum Manager).