World Cup probables to be selected on Jan 12 at Rajkot

MUMBAI: Thirty probables for the Cricket World Cup and a team for India's first two one-dayers against the West Indies will be selected at Rajkot on January 12.

The probables' names will be sent to the International Cricket Council by January 13, the deadline to submit the list, and it would be further pruned to 14 members a month before the start of the mega event in the Carribean on March 11.

The first of the four-match ODI home series against the West Indies will be played on January 21 at Nagpur and the second will be a day-night affair on January 24 at Cuttack.

"The selection committe meeting will be held at Rajkot because captain Rahul Dravid would be playing for Karnataka in their Ranji Trophy four-day match against Saurashtra from January 10-13," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said.

The Indian team will return after the three-Test series against South Africa, presently poised at 1-1, which ends with the Cape Town match from January 2 to 6.

The BCCI has made it mandatory for all the players presently in South Africa to play for their respective teams in the Ranji Trophy four-day cricket tournament's seventh and last round beginning January 10, Shah said.