India have named a 17-man squad for the Second World Cup for the Blind which is due to start at Chennai on December 4. Seven other stand-byes have also been named.

The hosts will launch their challenge for the Trophy when they take on England in the second match of the tournament. The ten-day long tournament features five other teams - Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Bangladesh.

South Africa are the defending champions, having defeated Pakistan to win the first World Cup which was held in New Delhi in 1998.

Squad: Inder Singh (B1), Pratap Singh Bisht (B1), Rajesh Singh (B1), Sanjeev Kumar (B1), Chandra Sekhar (B1), Rajendra Verma (B1), Manvinder Singh (B2), Sushil Gaur (B2), Mahesh (B2), LN Adhikari (B2), Amandeep (B2), B Nanaji (B3), Ramkaran Sharma (B3) , Purshottam Patel (B3), Shekhar Nayak (B3), Vishal Kumar (B3), Nirmal Kumar (B3)

* Totally blind (B1), Partially blind (B2), Partially sighted (B3)

Stand-byes S Pushparaj (B1), Karsan Zala (B1), Ravi Sastri (B2), Vinod Kunwar (B2), Manjunath (B3), Dyaneshwar (B3), Hande (B3)

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