India to give Eng a pacy welcome
Afp, Mumbai
Indian selectors have prepared a dose of pace for England by naming four fast bowlers in a team for the tourists' only first-class match before the Test series.Fast bowlers Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Vikram Singh and Shib Paul have been selected in a Board President's XI squad to take on England in a three-day match starting at Vadodara on February 23. England arrive in India next week to play three Test matches and seven one-day internationals. They open the tour with a three-day game in Mumbai on February 18. BOARD PRESIDENT'S XI: Venu-gopal Rao (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Amit Mishra, Dinesh Karthick, Subramaniam Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Ramesh Powar, Munaf Patel, Dheeraj Jadhav, Suresh Raina, Sreesanth, Vikram Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Shib Paul.
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