India announce CWLand tour squads
The BCCI today announced the Test and ODI squads for their CWLand tour. Two separate captains have been named for the different formats with Anil Kumble leading the Indian team in the longer form of the game and MS Dhoni in charge of the other. The ODI squad is expected to depart tomorrow.
In the Test squad there is a mixture of experience and youth. Allrounder Piyush Chawla has played a solitary Test for India, but has found his way into the selectors' favour despite his mediocre return. With him is phenom Ishant Sharma, who poses a threat with his pace bowling. Sharma and Zaheer Khan have been included pending fitness tests while VRV Singh and Murali Kartik have been left out.
Test squad:
A Kumble (c), MS Dhoni (wk), RS Dravid, SC Ganguly, H Singh, SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, IK Pathan, V Sehwag, W Jaffer, Y Singh, S Sreesanth, I Sharma, RP Singh, Z Khan, KD Karthik(wk), PP Chawla .
The one-day international squad features quite a few changes and an additional player. Dravid, Laxman and Jaffer make way for Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Praveen Kumar and Gautam Gambhir. Manoj Tiwary has been excluded as well as Munaf Patel.
ODI squad:
MS Dhoni (c)(wk), KD Karthik(wk), SC Ganguly, H Singh, SR Tendulkar, IK Pathan, V Sehwag, Y Singh, S Sreesanth, I Sharma, RP Singh, Z Khan, PP Chawla, RV Uthappa, SK Raina, RG Sharma, PS Singh, G Gambhir.