Sehwag to captain North Zone

Virender Sehwag will captain North Zone in the Duleep Trophy quarter  final against West Zone starting from the 6th of October in Chennai. The decision was taken in the zonal   selection meeting, which was held at the DDCA. 

Besides Sehwag, the 15 member squad also comprises of some other big names - Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh, who are currently playing the World T20 in Sri-Lanka. Ashok Vaswani will be the manager of the team, a DDCA release said. 

The selection committee, however, said that that if the Indian team qualifies for the World Twenty20 final, then the top players will be replaced by other cricketers. Sehwag will be replaced by I D Singh, Gambhir by Rahul Dewan and Kohli by Udey Kaul, while Vipul Sharma and Gurvinder Singh will replace Yuvraj and Harbhajan repectively, the release added. 

The meeting was attended by Mohinder Amarnath (chairman), Chetan Chauhan (DDCA), Vikram Rathore (Punjab), Manzoor Ahmed Wazir (J&K), Rajeep Kaisi (HPCA), Aman Kumar (Haryana) and Sunil Dev (Convenor). 

Sehwag will also lead Delhi in the Ranji Trophy.