IPL performance gets Yusuf and Ojha place in India One Day Squad
May 30th, 2008Mumbai:
Indian Premier League (IPL) performance fianlly got Yusuf Pathan and Pragyan Ojha earn berths in the one-day match sqad in the Indian National Team for the tri-series in Bangladesh starting next month as also in the Asia-Cup in Pakistan.
Selectors held a meeting at Mumbai on Friday and decided on a much young squad for both the tournaments and dropped older player Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. Earlier the duo was also ignored for the one-day team during the recently concluded triangular series in Australia.
Pathan and Ojha are the two new faces in the 15-member one-day squad. Selection of Yusuf was much expected as earlier he was selected for India’s Twenty20 World Championship winning team in South Africa last year.
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Yuvraj Singh who has proved himself to be a strong motivator and able captain for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL will now be the deputy captain for the one-day match team.
The only surprise was Murali Kartik, who has been left out while Harbhajan Singh was not considered because he is still serving his five-match ban for slapping S. Sreesanth during an IPL match.
Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan had already opted out due to injuries and will not be available for both the series. The Bangladesh tri-series kicks off on June 8 while the Asia Cup starts on June 24 at Pakistan.
The final squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain/wicketkeeper), Yuvraj Singh (vice-captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, S. Sreesanth, Yusuf Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Rudra Pratap Singh, Piyush Chawla and Pragyan Ojha.
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