Sourav Ganguly at his Behala residence before leaving for Jaipur on Sunday. Picture by Gautam Bose

Jaipur: The performance of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly will be watched keenly when hosts Central Zone take on East in the Deodhar Trophy limited overs league match on Sunday.

The clash of the two teams, who are at the bottom of the table, otherwise has little interest because both have gone out of reckoning.

Central have lost all three of their matches and have minus one point while East too have lost both their matches although narrowly.

Batsmen of both teams have struggled in the tournament so far but Sourav’s presence should provide the necessary spark for East.

When asked if he will be short of practice, captain Deep Dasgupta said that Sourav had been practising back home.

TEAMS

East Zone (from): Deep Dasgupta (captain), Sourav Ganguly, Rohan Gavaskar, Subhamoy Das, Manoj Tewari, Avishek Jhunjhunwala, Ranadeb Bose, Shib Shankar Paul, Shiv Sagar Singh, Sourashish Lahiri, Rajeev Kumar Raja, Vasant Sarvanan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mihir Diwakar, Timir Chanda, Laxmi Ratan Shukla.

Central Zone (from): Jai Prakash Yadav (captain), Shivkant Shukla, Tejinder Pal Singh, Praveen Kumar, Abbas Ali, Devendra Bundela, Ravikant Shukla, Sameer Khare, Dishant Yagnik, M. Acharya, Harvinder Singh, Jyoti Yadav, Atnesh Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Shivakant Shukla.

(PTI)