ODI squad: Sachin, Ganguly axed, Sehwag retained
Apr 20, 2007 - 7:43:30 PM
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May 18-22: 1st Test, Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Mumbai, April 20 - Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were Friday axed while Virender Sehwag was retained in the 15-member Indian one-day squad for the Bangladesh tour.
Tendulkar and Ganguly were, however, selected for the two-match Test series while Sehwag was dropped, Indian cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah announced here after a meeting of selection committee.
Promising Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary was selected for the three-match ODI series, while Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Mongia, Rudra Pratap Singh, Piyush Chawla and Ramesh Powar staged a comeback.
Besides Tendulkar and Ganguly, the others who were dropped from the World Cup squad were Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan while Anil Kumble has announced retirement from ODIs.
Sehwag was ironically dropped for the Test matches, in which he had performed better than One-day Internationals. Agarkar, Harbhajan and Pathan were also ignored while off-spinner Ramesh Powar, left-arm spinner Ramesh Pawar and pacer Vikram Raj Vir Singh were picked.
The Rahul Dravid-led Indian team will play two Tests and three One-day Internationals starting with the first ODI in Mirpur May 10.
No vice-captain was announced for the tour.
This is India's first series since crashing out of the first round in the World Cup in the West Indies. The team lost two of the three matches to make an inglorious exit from the tournament.
Despite the debacle, Dravid was retained captain April 7. The same day the working committee of the board had asked the selection committee to pick a predominantly young team for the Bangladesh tour.
ODI squad: Rahul Dravid -, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni -, Dinesh Kaarthick, Manoj Tiwari, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar and Dinesh Mongia
Test squad: Rahul Dravid -, Wasim Jaffer, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni -, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Kaarthick, Sreesanth, Zaheer Khan, Vikram Raj Vir Singh, Munaf Patel, Anil Kumble, Ramesh Powar and Rajesh Pawar
Itinerary:
May 10: 1st ODI, Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
May 12: 2nd ODI, Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
May 15: 3rd ODI, Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong
May 18-22: 1st Test, Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong
May 25-29: 2nd Test, Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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