Ganguly to captain and Veeru will open, Sreesanth and Dinda to shine in bowling; World Giants includes rivals Kallis and Jayasuriya

NEW DELHI: The special cricket match, organized to celebrate India’s 75th Independence Day, will be played between India Maharajas, captained by BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, and World Giants, led by former England captain Eoin Morgan.

The match is scheduled to be held at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on September 16, ahead of the Legends Cricket League. The new season of the Legends League will be held from September 17 to October 8. Malayalee cricketer S Sreesanth is also part of the 17-member Maharajas team.

India Maharajas: Sourav Ganguly (C), Virender Sehwag, Mohammed Kaif, Yusuf Pathan, Subramaniam Badrinath, Irfan Pathan, Parthiv Patel (wk), Stuart Binny, S Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Naman Ojha (wk), Ashoke Dinda, Pragyan Ojha, Ajay Jadeja, R P Singh, Joginder Sharma and Reetinder Singh Sodhi.

World Giants: Eoin Morgan (c), Lendl Simmons, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Sanath Jayasuriya, Matt Prior (wk), Nathan McCullum, Jonty Rhodes, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dale Steyn, Hamilton Masakadza, Mashrafe Mortaza, Asghar Afghan, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Kevin O Brien and Denesh Ramdin (wk).