Indian Team, Squad for 2011 Cricket World Cup, IND WC Squad - Ashwin, Chawla in, Rohit out

Indian selectors announced 15-member squad for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup-2011, starting from 19th February in the sub-continent. Only surprise in the selection was exclusion of middle order batsman Rohit Sharma, and inclusion of offspinner R Ashwin and legspinner Piyush Chawla, who last palyed his ODI in July 2008. Four injured players Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gambhir and fast bowler Praveen Kumar has been included in the team, confident thay all fit in time for the big occasion.

India is going with 6 specialist batsmen, 3 spinners, 4 fast bowlers, one all rounder Yusuf Pathanand only 1 wicketkeeper Dhoni. Munaf Patel got the reward after helping India to win the 2nd ODI in South Africa.

Find the list of 15-member squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

India World Cup 2011 Team/Squad:


MS Dhoni (capt & wk)
Sachin Tendulkar
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Yuvraj SinghSuresh Raina
Virat Kohli
Yusuf Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Praveen Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra
Munaf Patel
Piyush Chawla
R Ashwin