Off-colour Harbhajan Singh was dropped from the 15-member squad for the first two cricket one-dayers in next month's ODI series against England. Young spinner Rahul Sharma and paceman Sreenath Aravind are the two new faces in the squad. The team was announced by new BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale after a marathon meeting of the selection committee in Chennai.The squad, to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will be without the services of a host of seniors, including Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh because of injuries. However, Gautam Gambhir, who missed the ODI series in the tour of England because of concussion, returned to the squad. The members of the squad are: Mahendra Singh Dhoni,(Captain), Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Varun Aaron, Umesh Yadav, R Vinay Kumar, Sreenath Aravind, Rahul Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Praveen Kumar.The first ODI of the five-match series will be played in Hyderabad on October 14. Delhi will host the second game on October 17. The other three matches will be played at Mohali, Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata will also hold the lone Twenty20 match against England on October 29.
News On AIR | September 29, 2011 8:45 PM