Indian Team, Squad for T20 & ODI against West Indies - Gambhir captain, Badrinath, Parthiv, Rohit & Ishant Sharma in
Indian selectors have announced team for the upcoming tour of West Indiea for the only T20 and 5 match ODI Series under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir as Dhoni, Tendulkar, Sehwag, Zaheer and Nehera are either injured or rested. Gautam Gambhir have prior captaincy experience when he led 5-0 series win over New Zealand last year.Selectors have considered Ranji performance and ignored ongoing IPL form and rewarded Badrinath, Rohit Sharma and Parthive Patel all done well in domestic season while ignored Rayudu, Valthaty, Iqbal Abdullah and Rahul Sharma.
Paveen Kumar who missed World Cup back in place of Zaheer while Ishant Sharma replaces Nehra and Vinay Kumar in place of Sreesanth. Amit Mishra picked ahead of Pragyan Ojha while Piyush Chawla ignored due to out of form.
Wriddhiman Saha will be the other keeper while Yusuf Pathan, Suresh Raina and Munaf Patel have retained their places.
Find the complete list of players for the 2011 India tour of West Indies.
India T20 & ODI Team against West Indies:
Gautam Gambhir (injured - out)
Suresh Raina (Captan)
Virat Kohli
Yuvraj Singh
Yusuf Pathan
S Badrinath
Rohit Sharma
Parthiv Patel (wk)
Wriddhiman Saha (wk)
Harbhajan Singh
R Ashwin
Amit Mishra
Praveen Kumar
Ishant Sharma
Munaf Patel
Vinay Kumar