Sachin Tendulkar, named captain of the West Zone team for the Duleep Trophy league opener against South Zone, is unlikely to play in the tie as it coincides with the three-day camp for the Indian team to prepare for the forthcoming seven-match one-day international series against Sri Lanka.
"All the team members selected for the first few ODIs against Sri Lanka on October 14 should attend the camp at Bangalore from October 19-21 that has been proposed by coach Greg Chappell and agreed upon by the Indian cricket board," BCCI secretary S K Nair said from Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
"The captain as well as the other team members for the first two ODIs against Lanka, at Nagpur (October 25) and Mohali (October 28) would be chosen at Mohali after the Challenger trophy," Nair said.
Tendulkar is set to return to competitive cricket during the October 10-13 Challenger Trophy after a fourth-month post operation (elbow) lay-off.
Also named in the West Zone Duleep squad to take on South from October 20-23 at Vadodara were pace bowlers Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan and Ajit Agarkar.
The last two are certain to be named in the Indian one-day squad and are also expected to miss the Duleep opener which has been shifted to Vadodara from Mumbai on the request of the Baroda Cricket Association.
Meanwhile, Tendulkar had another full practice session at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday along with his Mumbai Ranji Trophy mates and was seen batting with more freedom during his 25-minute stint at the nets than witnessed on the first two days.
He was, however, not available for comment to mediapersons and is expected to address them on Friday after another net session before proceeding to Mohali to join the other India Seniors team members on October 8.
India Seniors will clash with India A in the Challenger Trophy opener on October 10.
West Zone team: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Sairaj Bahutule (vice-captain), Dheeraj Jadhav, Satyajit Parab, Wasim Jaffer, Neeraj Patel, Parthiv Patel (wicketkeeper), Ramesh Powar, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, Zaheer Khan, Akash Christian, Vinit Indulkar, Jaydev Shah, Rakesh Patel.
Coach: Balwinder Singh Sandhu
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