<p>The changes were necessitated after six players, including skipper S Badrinath, were picked to represent the Board President’s XI which will take on the visiting South Africans in a two-day practice match in Nagpur beginning the same day.<br /><br />Dinesh Kaarthick, left out of the national squad for the first Test against the Proteas, returns as the skipper of the side, while the Karnataka duo of Ganesh Satish and S Arvind too break in to the zonal side.<br /><br />The right-handed Satish made upwards of 600 runs in his first full season in the Ranji Trophy, while left-arm medium-pacer Arvind more than adequately backed up the new-ball duo of R Vinay Kumar and A Mithun.<br /><br />Apart from Badrinath, Vinay and Mithun, the others from South Zone who have been drafted into the Board XI are opening batsman Abhinav Mukund, middle-order tyro Manish Pandey from Karnataka and off-spinner all-rounder R Ashwin, who played a key role with bat and ball in South’s semifinal win over Central.<br /><br />The squad: Dinesh Kaarthick (capt), S Anirudha, Robin Uthappa, KB Arun Karthik, Ganesh Satish, CM Gautam, P Rohan Prem, C Ganapathy, T Atchuti Rao, S Arvind, Alfred Absolem, Shadab Jakati, R Aushik Srinivas, KB Pawan, Syed Ahmed Quadri. Coach: K Sanath Kumar. Manager: R Sudhakar Rao.</p>
<p>The changes were necessitated after six players, including skipper S Badrinath, were picked to represent the Board President’s XI which will take on the visiting South Africans in a two-day practice match in Nagpur beginning the same day.<br /><br />Dinesh Kaarthick, left out of the national squad for the first Test against the Proteas, returns as the skipper of the side, while the Karnataka duo of Ganesh Satish and S Arvind too break in to the zonal side.<br /><br />The right-handed Satish made upwards of 600 runs in his first full season in the Ranji Trophy, while left-arm medium-pacer Arvind more than adequately backed up the new-ball duo of R Vinay Kumar and A Mithun.<br /><br />Apart from Badrinath, Vinay and Mithun, the others from South Zone who have been drafted into the Board XI are opening batsman Abhinav Mukund, middle-order tyro Manish Pandey from Karnataka and off-spinner all-rounder R Ashwin, who played a key role with bat and ball in South’s semifinal win over Central.<br /><br />The squad: Dinesh Kaarthick (capt), S Anirudha, Robin Uthappa, KB Arun Karthik, Ganesh Satish, CM Gautam, P Rohan Prem, C Ganapathy, T Atchuti Rao, S Arvind, Alfred Absolem, Shadab Jakati, R Aushik Srinivas, KB Pawan, Syed Ahmed Quadri. Coach: K Sanath Kumar. Manager: R Sudhakar Rao.</p>
