Veterans Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra have been handed fresh lifelines with a recall in India's Twenty20 squad while Punjab left-arm seamer Brainder Sran and Baroda all-rounder Hardik Pandya are the new faces in thesquads for upcoming limited overs cricket tour to Australia early next year. Paceman Ishant Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami have been brought back into the ODI team which has no place for Suresh Raina, who has been overlooked to test new players. Shami has been named in both the ODI and T20 squads, announced by BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur after a meeting of the selection committee in New Delhi today. Rishi Dhawan and Manish Pandey are also included in the One-day squad. The squads, to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, is packed with seamers, keeping in mind the conditions in Australia where India will play five ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals from January 12 to 31.
News On AIR | December 19, 2015 8:57 PM
Team India squad for Australia tour announced; Yuvraj, Nehra, Shami, Jadeja recalled