Rahul, Anil miss out
Pti, Bangalore
Rahul Dravid with the highest batting average (57.46) and Anil Kumble with by far the highest number of Test wickets (552) for India do not figure in the all-time great Indian XI chosen by an elite panel to mark 75 years of Indian Test cricket.Elegant left-hander Sourav Ganguly, spinners B S Chandrasekhar and Bishen Singh Bedi also do not make it to the team selected by eight former Indian captains and a panel chaired by great off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna. To mark 75 years since India played its first cricket match against England in 1932, eight former Indian captains -- Gundappa Vishwanath, Dilip Vengsarkar, Srinivasan Venkataraghavan, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Ajit Wadekar, Nari Contractor, Syed Kirmani and Abbas Ali Baig -- were requested to pick their all-time India best Test XI. From the selections made by the eight ex-captains, a panel consisting of Prasanna, well-known sports journalist Rajan Bala and PTI Editors came up with the all-time great XI. TEAM Sunil Gavaskar (captain), Vinoo Mankad, Vijay Hazare (vice-captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammed Azharuddin, Gundappa Vishwanath, Kapil Dev, Syed Kirmani (wk), Javagal Srinath, Erapalli Prasanna, Subash Gupte. 12th Man: Vijay Manjrekar. Reserves: Mohammed Nissar, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, and Rahul Dravid.
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