India A have Test duo

Only two players with Test experience, fast bowlers Dodda Ganesh and Harvinder Singh, are included in the India A team to tour the West Indies November 13-21.

Ganesh has had four Tests, two each against South Africa in South Africa and against the West Indies in the Caribbean in 1997. Singh played two against Australia in India last year.

The tour comprises two four-day Tests and three One-Day matches against West Indies A and two first-class matches against combined teams. It reciprocates a visit by West Indies A to India last year.

Batsman Hrishikesh Kanitkar is again captain, as he was in the series in India when West Indies A won both representative matches and the One-Day series 2-1. Gagan Khoda will be his deputy.

Teenaged fast bowler Laxmi Ratan Shukla and batsman Jacob Martin, who played against the West Indies in recent One-Day Internationals in Singapore and Toronto, are in the team. But there is no place for batsman Amol Muzumdar who recently led India A against the touring New Zealanders.

Hrishikesh Kanitkar (captain), Gagan Khoda (vice-captain), J.Arun Kumar, Pravanjan Mullick, Jacob Martin, Devendra Bundela, Md Kaif, Sameer Dighe (wicketkeeper), Rahul Sanghvi, S.Sriram, Dodda Ganesh, Harvinder Singh Sodhi, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Amit Bhandari and Murali Karthik.