da luck： Ganguly retained captain for Zimbabwe tour
22-Apr-2001Saurav Ganguly has been retained as the captain of Indiancricket team for the tour of Zimbabwe from May 27.The selection committee met in Baroda on Saturday under its chairman ChanduBorde and took “two minutes” in arriving at the decision, CricketBoard secretary Jaywant Lele said.”No other name was considered by the selectors,” Lele said,adding that the decision was unanimous. Indian team will play two Testmatches with Zimbabwe followed by a triangular one-day series alsoinvolving West Indies.All national selectors, Madan Lal, Ashok Malhotra, Sanjay Jagdaleand TA Sekhar, were present when the committee took this decision.Ganguly will join the selectors here tomorrow to pick the probablesfor the tour, Lele said.The selection committee will pick 22 probables who will attenda five day conditioning camp beginning at Bangalore from May 13th, hesaid.The final team will be selected on May 18 and it will leave forZimbabwe on May 24. The Indians will also play two side games againstCPX academy at Harare (from May 28 to 30) and Zimbabwe A at Mutare(from June 2-4), Lele said.The first Test will be played in Harare from June 7-11 while thesecond will be played at Bulawayo from June 15-19. The triangularseries would be held from June 23 to July 7.