Pune's Hrishikesh Kanitkar will lead the India `A' team. Talking to the reporters, the secretary of the Board for Control of Cricket in India, Jayant Lele said, ``the team for the one-dayers will be selected in Chennai during the second Test to be played there.''

With regard to the omission of Sairaj Bahutule, who is leading the India Youth team here, and spinner Nilesh Kulkarni, he stated that as they had failed to impress so they were not considered.

The Bangalore Test will be played from November 28 to December 1 while the Chennai match is scheduled to be held from December 4-7.

THE TEAM

Hrishikesh Kanitkar (captain; Maharashtra), S Ramesh (TN), Devang Gandhi, and Rohan Gavaskar (both Bengal), Amol Mujumdar and Wasim Jaffer (bothMumbai), Amey Khurasia (MP), MSK Prasad (wk; AP), Rahul Sanghvi, Nikhil Chopra and Robin Singh Jr (all from Delhi), Dodda Ganesh (Kar), Obed Kamal (UP) and Sanjay Rawat (Orissa).