October 15, 2009 8:40 PM

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Sehwag, Yuvraj return to Indian squad for Oz series

Veteran batsman Rahul David has been dropped while the dashing duo of Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh returned to India's 15-member squad for the first two cricket one-dayers of a seven-match series againstAustralia starting on the 25 th of this month. Dravid, who was surprisingly named in India's Champions Trophy squad, found himself out of favour again after just one tournament. Out of form pacer R P Singh, wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik and young all-rounder Abhishek Nayar were also left out of the squad announced by the BCCI after a meeting of theselection of its panel in Chennai today. Rookie Uttar Pradesh pacer Sudeep Tyagi is the lone new face in the squad, which also marked the return of Munaf Patel and young all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja. The BCCI said Yuvraj, who is currently nursing a fractured finger, will be completely fit by the 28 th of this month for the second one-dayer in Nagpur and might be available for thefirst one-dayer as well on the 25th in Vadodara. The squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli,Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi.

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