Pravin Tambe along with Sachin Tendulkar during Mumbai Ranji team’s practice session in October at Wankhede Stadium. Pic/Suresh KK

Tambe, who plays for the D Y Patil Sports Academy in local cricket, has picked up 13 wickets in 8 T20 games in his career.

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He will complement left arm spinner Vishal Dabholkar.

The defending champions made a few other changes in their squad that whipped Vidarbha by 338 runs on Sunday.

The unavailability of captain and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, who is ther in the Team India squad for the South Africa tour, has once again opened the doors for Kshemal Waingankar to take his place in the squad.

All-rounder Abhishek Nayar will lead the side in Zaheer's absence.

The squad:

Abhishek Nayar (Capt), Aditya Tare (Vice-capt), Wasim Jaffer, Hiken Shah, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Vishal Dabholkar, Siddhesh Lad, Javed Khan, Shardul Thakur, Akbar Khan, Kshemal Waingankar, Manish Rao, Pravin Tambe and Sagar Kerkar. Coach: Sulakshan Kulkarni.