Bangladesh Cricket Tri-series ODI squad announced

Dec 26

The ODI squad for the cricket Tri-series in Bangladesh beginning from January 4 to 13 has been announced. Sachin Tendulkar is rested while pacemen Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar are dropped from India's 16-member squad. Dashing left-hander Yuvraj Singh speedster S Sreesanth and Bengal pacer Ashok Dinda have been included. Apart from India, hosts Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are the two other teams. This was announced by the BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan after a selection committee meeting in New Delhi. He said, Sachin Tendulkar has desired to be rested for the Tri-series at Bangladesh. He will however play the two match Test series in Chittagong and Dhaka which will be held after the Tri-series. Squad for the Tri-series---
M S Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (Vice-Captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Sudeep Tyagi, Dinesh Karthik, S Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda and Amit Mishra.