Friday 30 September 2011

Harbhajan ignored for first two ODIs Vs England

Harbhajan ignored for first two ODI's
Harbhajan Singh was ignored in the ODIs against England while the youngsters Sreenath Aravind and Rahul Sharma were present in the 15-man squad for the first two ODIs against England.

Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Rohit Sharma were not picked in the Indian squad because of their injuries.

The 15-man squad for the first two games of the five-match ODI series against England will be played in Hyderabad on October 14, New Delhi on October 17 and the remaining matches will be held in Mohali (Oct 20), Mumbai (Oct 23) and Kolkata (Oct 25). The Indian players will be picked under Kris Srikanth in Chennai.

Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel are back to their places while Manoj Tiwary got place in final 15 and Ajinkya Rahane are also in the game as they impressed all with their performance in England. In the Indian team Ravindra Jadeja was only the all-rounder.

Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel were out of the game due to injuries while Praveen Kumar was present in the game. R Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron also present in the game.

The selectors in Chennai decided not to pick Ashish Nehra as he himself declared fit. When coming to the spin department anyway Harbhajan was ignored R.Ashwin occupied the place as the main off-spinner and Rahul Sharma was the Leg-spinner as he proved himself brilliantly in the IPL 2011.

Indian Squad: MS Dhoni (capt and w/k), Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Manoj Tiwary, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Sharma, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Sreenath Aravind, R Vinay Kumar, Varun Aaron, Umesh Yadav.

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