The 30-year-old middle-order batsman, who launched his career from Mumbai thus makes a come-back to his home team after 12 years. In between, he served Railways (1987-88), Bengal (1996-97) and Rajasthan (1990-96 & 1997-98).

Interestingly, the MCA has released a list of 41 players of which 25 will be under coach Ashok Mankad while the rest have been entrusted to former Test opener Lalchand Rajput.

``It had been observed in the past that the coach found it difficult to handle 40 players which resulted in many of the players being left out during the training session,'' explained Prof Ratnakar Shetty, joint secretary, while dwelling upon the MCA's decision. ``While those under Ashok Mankad would form the feeder stock, those under Lalchand Rajput would be our bench strength,'' revealed Shetty while speaking to The Indian Expressthis evening. ``Besides, Rajput would also be catering to those who don't make it to the team, especially when the side is playing away from home,'' he added.

Mankad and Rajput would be holding their training sessions simultaneously at the Wankhede Stadium from October first week, informed Shetty.

The probables training sessions would take a break for the A Division Times Shield slated to commence from October 14-28 before resuming for a 15-day camp.

The players under Mankad: Wasim Jaffer, Amit Pagnis, Manoj Joglekar, Sachin Tendulkar, Vinod Kambli, Jatin Paranjpe, Amol Muzumdar, Kiran Pawar, Pravin Amre, Sulakshan Kulkarni, Sameer Dighe, Sairaj Bahutule, Rajesh Sutar, Ajit Agarkar, Atul Ranade, Paras Mhambrey, Abey Kuruvilla, Santosh Saxena, Sriram Kannan, Sandeep Dahad, Zaheer Khan, Manish Patel, Nilesh Kulkarni, Rajesh Pawar and Faisal Shaikh.

Players to attend nets under Rajput: Ojas Mehta, Amit Velaskar, Amit Aroskar, Mandar Phadke, Nishit Shetty, Maroof Khan, Kunal More, AtiqSayed, Abhijit Shetye, Nilesh Patwardhan, Amit Dani, Mahesh Karanjkar, Vineet Sarang, Dinesh Sabnis, Mandar Gokarn and Vishal Mahadik.