Indian Squad WC 2011 - Cricket World Cup Squad- ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 updatesIndia have named their 15 man for ICC World Cup 2011 Squad.
selectors have picked both offspinner R Ashwin and legspinner Piyush Chawla, ahead of left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha
Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma, and Ojha are all excluded from the bowling attack. Matches are played in subcontinent tracks the spinners will pay key role apart from Harbhajan, there are two specialists in Ashwin and Chawla, an allrounder in Yusuf Pathan besides the part-time offerings of Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Virender Sehwag.
India Squad for World Cup also has only seven specialist batsmen, including MS Dhoni. Rohit Sharma will miss the bus for the world cup as he been dropped from the squad.
Kris Srikkanth, chairman of the national selection committee, was confident India could end their 28-year wait for a one-day World Cup. "This particular Indian team is doing brilliantly for the past couple of years in both Test and ODI cricket. They are playing consistently not only in India but outside," he told reporters after the team was announced. "We are confident this team will do well and win the World Cup for us in front of the home crowd.
Indian Squad for ICC World Cup 2011
MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Sreesanth, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin
