Chennai, Sept 18: Saurav Ganguly led Rest of India today won the toss and put Sachin Tendulkar led Mumbai team to bat in the five-day Irani Cup cricket tournament. Ganguly opted to play L Balaji instead of Amit Bhandari and Anil Kumble instead of Murli Karthik. Rohan Gavaskar is the 12th man.
For Mumbai Nilesh Kulkarni will be the 12th man while Swapnil Hazare and Vinit Tendulkar have been asked to sit out.
Following are the teams:
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar (capt), Wasim Jaffer, Nishit Shetty, Vinod Kambli, Vinayak Mane, Vinayak Samant, Ajit Agarkar, Sairaj Bahutule, Ramesh Powar, Avishkar Salvi, Robin Morris, Nilesh Kulkarni (12th man).
Rest of India: Sourav Ganguly (capt),Virender Sehwag, Sanjay Bangar, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Yuvaraj Singh, Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, L Balaji, Rohan Gavaskar (12th man).
Umpires: Jasbir Singh and Vijay Chopra.
Third umpire: S V Ramani.
Match referee: B Raghunath. Bureau Report