The national selectors, who were in full attendance at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium on Tuesday, handed a lifeline of sorts to out-of-favour stars Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan.

Yuvraj, who has not been a part of the Indian team since the ODIs against England earlier this year, was named the skipper of the India 'A' side for the unofficial three one-dayers and a Twenty20 game against the visiting West Indies 'A' to be played in Bangalore from September 15. Yuvraj had a mediocre IPL and was not part of the team for Champions Trophy and the subsequent one-day series in West Indies and Zimbabwe,

This clearly means that the southpaw continues to remain on the selectors' radar for the 2015 World Cup. The one-dayers will be played on September 15, 17 and 19, while the T20 will be played on September 21.

Yuvraj and Zaheer had employed trainer Tim Exeter and went through a gruelling six-week-long training stint in France to attain peak levels of fitness.

India 'A' squads: For 3 one-dayers and one-off Twenty20: Yuvraj Singh (capt), Unmukt Chand, Robin Uthappa, Baba Aparajith, Kedhar Jadhav, Naman Ojha (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Jaydev Unadkat, Praveen Kumar, Sumit Narwal, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma.

For first four-day game : Cheteshwar Pujara (capt), Jiwanjot Singh, KL Rahul, Manprit Juneja, Parveez Rasool, Bhargav Bhatt, Ishwar Pandey, Mohammad Shami, Ashok Dinda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Paras Dogra, Rohit Motwani (wk), Rajat Paliwal, Harshad Khadiwale.

For second and third four-day game: Cheteshwar Pujara (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sheldon Jackson, Abhishek Nayar, Paras Dogra, Uday Kaul (wk), Mohammad Kaif, Parvez Rasool, Bhargav Bhatt, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zaheer Khan, Ishwar Pandey, Mohammad Shami.

Squads for Challenger Series for NKP Salve Trophy:

India Red : Irfan Pathan (capt), Robin Uthappa, Abhinav Mukund, Saurabh Tiwary, Gurkeerat Mann, Kedar Jadhav, Smit Patel (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Abhimanyu Mithun, Umesh Yadav, Suraj Yadav.

India Blue : Yuvraj Singh (capt), Akshath Reddy, Naman Ojha (wk), Mandeep Singh, Ankit Bawne, Abhishek Nayar, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Ankit Rajpoot, R Vinay Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Iresh Saxena.


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