Tendulkar in Mumbai team after 23 months

Mumbai: As expected Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan have been named in the 15 member Mumbai team for the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Saurashtra to be played at Chennai from January 4 to 7.

Tendulkar had made his last match for Mumbai memorable by scoring a century in the national championship final against Bengal at the Wankhede Stadium in February 2007.

The match against Saurashtra would be his 36th for Mumbai.

Zaheer Khan’s only match for Mumbai was in the same final and he took nine wickets. Previously he had played 20 Ranji matches for Baroda.

The team: Wasim Jaffer (Captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Vinayak Samant (wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Amol Muzumdar, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Sahil Kukreja, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ramesh Powar, Sairaj Bahutule, Ankit Chavan, Usman Malvi. — Special Correspondent