Shewag
Butt
Dravid
Youhanna
Laxman
Razzaq
Danish Karthick (thanks Zanuib)
Ifran Pathan
Harbijan Singh
Kumble
Kaneria

Haha don't forget Maranello, this is 'fantasy' cricket. And regardless of being an Indian supporter, I really don't mind the Pakistani's. I'm choosing the XI that will bring back the best returns (hopefully).

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Beny, that must be Dhoni or Denish Karthick you are talking about, Ghambir is not a wicket keeper, he's an opening bat.

Sehwag
Salman
Youhana
Laxman
Dravid
Razzaq
Kamran
Kaneria
Sami
Pathan
Zaheer Khan

My team

Sehwag
Butt
Youhana
Ganguly
Laxman

Dravid (wicket keeper)

Razzaq (all-rounder)

Harbhajan (captain)
Kumble
Pathan
Kaneria

Dravid doesn't keep in tests Andy.

Shhhh! I was just trying to sneak in another batsman rather than using a wicket keeper i know nothing about!! As I understand it, both India and Pakistan are struggling with keepers at the moment. It was a deliberate mistake and you were the first to spot it. I'm guessing that such tomfoolery is not allowed, so can someone give me some information about the wicket keepers available on both sides?

We've only taken one wicket keeper with us for the India tour namely Kamran Akmal, who is an excellent natural keeper and not a bad number 7 either. Can bat. Can also make runs.

India I think haven't announced their test squad as yet if I'm correct. But here's some info that might give you some idea on who they might pick.

In the last test India played (that was versus Bangladesh at Chitagong), the gloves were with 19 year old Dinesh Karthik, who made his one-day bebut against your England side in the last and 3rd game of the NatWest Challenge last summer and also boasted of an excellent stumping of Michael Vaughan in that game (which India incidently won), so you might as well have seen him. His test debut came against Australia shortly afterwards in the much remembered Mumbai test match where he replaced Parthiv Patel who went out of favor after a string of crucial missed opportunities with the glove (ironically though during that period of poor form with the gloves he was one of the few Indian batsmen to boast of some proper scores against the Australians).

In the one-day series against the Tigers India tried out 23 year old Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is better known as simply Mahi. And since he fashions a neck length mullet he is not in my good books at all. Although apart from that he is quite an exciting young prospect, I've seen him play once, I think he played in that game where B'desh beat India. His cricket info profile says "He can be swashbuckling with the bat and secure with the wicketkeeping gloves" if you find that of any help to you.

Is SRT going to play? I'd love to pick him instead of Butt but I'm just not clear. What's the latest on his injury? Provisionally I'll say as follows.. but I trust it's OK to ammend at any time up to the deadline for entries....

Virendar Sehwag
Salman Butt
Rahul Dravid
Yousuf Youhanna
Inzamam ul Haq (captain)
Abdul Razzaq (all rounder)
Kamran Akmal (wicket keeper)
Ifran Pathan
Harbajjan Singh
Danish Kaneria
Anil Kumble

Sachin is going to play Racheal. India announced their squad and he is in it. He also played in a domestic game. I saw how he got out. Bowled to Kumble. Played late. Missed and was clean bowled. Looked rusty.