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PCA gears up for North-West encounter
Jan 09, 2001, 19:45 Hrs (IST)

Chandigarh: The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium at Mohali has geared itself up for the second four-day match of the Duleep Trophy League Tournament 2000-01 between North and West zones starting on January eleven.

According to PCA Secretary MP Pandov, the two teams were reaching here on Tuesday night and would be at nets on Wednesday. Besides Nayan Mongia, who had been cleared of the match-fixing charges, India's new caps Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Sharandeep Singh, Rettinder Sodhi, V Dahiya, Harbhajan Singh would be seen in action at the sprawling stadium.

The North Zone, having already snatched five points from their first drawn encounter with South Zone earlier on January 4 to 7, would take on East Zone on January 18 at Guwahati and Central Zone at Delhi on January 25.

North Zone (from): V Rathod, Yuvraj Singh, D Mongia, Sharandeep Singh, Harbhajan Singh, R S Sodhi Gagandeep Singh (Punjab) V Dahiya, A Chopra, V Sehwag, R L Singhvi, A Nehra (Delhi), R Nayyar (Himachal Pradesh) and Surinder Singh (Jammu and Kashmir).

West Zone (from): N R Mongia, C C Williams, J J Martin, Z Khan, V N Buch (Baroda), H K Kantikhar, A V Kale, I R Siddiqui (Maharashtra), M S H Kotak, P P Joshi (Saurashtra), W Jaffer, S R Saxena, S V Bahutule, R R Popwar (Mumbai), N K Patel (Gujarat).

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