After commendable performances in the Cooch Behar league games, several youngsters have replaced veterans like Rajesh Puri and Sonu Sharma in the Haryana squad for the forthcoming Ranji season. The team will also be captained by the relatively young Ajay Ratra as the Haryana Cricket Association look to mount a serious challenge in the Ranji Trophy.

Rajasthan's senior selection committee also announced the Ranji squad for the first match against Bengal at Kolkata, starting on November 9, 2002. P Krishna Kumar has been retained as captain, and only two new faces - Sumir Mathur and Shailendra Gehlot - find themselves in the squad.

Delhi will be led by Vijay Dahiya when they take the field for their first-league encounter against Railways at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground on November 9.

Squads:

Haryana: Ajay Ratra (captain), Amit Mishra, Jitender Singh Siwach, Ishan Ganda, Shafiq Khan, Gurpreet Singh, Vikram Dhariwal, Aprajit Singh, Sumit Narwal, Sumit Sharma, Amit Sharma, Jitender Singh, Sameer Prashant, Joginder Sharma, Manvinder Bisla, Chetan Sharma, Gaurav Vashishta

Rajasthan: PK Krishna Kumar (captain), Gagan Khoda, Vineet Saxena, Anshu Jain, Nikhil Doru, Mohammad Aslam, Kaushal Devra, Rohit Jhalani, Rahul Kanwat, Anoop Dave, Shailendra Gehlot, Sumit Mathur, Kishan Chaudhary, Lokesh Jain, Sanjeev Sharma

Delhi: Vijay Dahiya (captain), Mithun Manhas, Akash Chopra, Gautam Ghambir, Pradeep Chawla, Sarandeep Singh, Amit Bhandari, Arun singh, Rahul Sanghvi, Abhishek Sharma, Varun Kumar, Kuldeep Rawat, Premvir Nagar, Harender Chaudhary, Siddharth Verma, Virender Sehwag, Ashish Nehra

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