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Sehwag, Harbhajan dropped, Rasool in
Sunday 07 April 2013
Senior cricketers Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh were omitted while Jammu and Kashmir all-rounder Parveez Rasool was yesterday named in India's 30-member probables list for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in England in June this year.
Apart from the struggling Sehwag and Harbhajan, pacer Zaheer Khan, batsman Cheteshwar Pujara and spinner Pragyan Ojha were also left out from the list of probables announced by BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale.
The left handed Gautam Gambhir, who had been dropped from the Test team, finds himself in the list which has a number of youngsters like Madhya Pradesh all-rounder Jalaj Saxena, Punjab pacer Siddharth Kaul, Maharashtra middle order batsman Kedar Jadhav and MP pacer Ishwar Yadav.
Both Sehwag and Harbhajan's axing did not come as a surprise since both have been out of form for quite a long time. Gambhir, who was ignored for the entire Test series against Australia, kept himself in reckoning by making it to 30-men list which will be pruned down to 15. Gambhir, Dhawab and Murali Vijay are the openers in the list.
There are three wicket-keepers in the list with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha and Dinesh Karthik getting the preference. Fit-again Umesh Yadav and troubled pacer Praveen Kumar, who was banned by the BCCI for a short period earlier this year period for misconduct during a Corporate Trophy match, have also been included.
Leg-spinner Amit Mishra has also been included while left-arm spinner Ojha has been left out of the list as he is seen more as a Test bowler. Among the notable domestic performers who have got a call are Jammu and Kashmir all-rounder Rasool, who took seven Australian wickets for the Board President's XI, Indian U-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt Chand.
Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Gautam Gambhir, Unmukt Chand, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Jalaj Saxena, Parveez Rasool, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashok, Dinda, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Irfan Pathan, R Vinay Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Ishwar Pandey, Sidharth Kaul.
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