Krishnamachari Srikkanth and his colleagues in the selection committee met today at Chennai to pick the ODI squad for the Sri-Lanka tri-series and the ICC Champions trophy in South Africa.Rahul Dravid makes his way back into the team after nearly a two-year gap.
Dravid played the last of his 333 ODIs back in October 2007 against Australia in Nagpur and the former India captain has amassed 10,585 runs at an average of 39.49.
The selectors chose to pick leggie Amit Mishra as the second spinner while left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha could not find a place in the final 15. Dinesh Karthik was picked as the back-up keeper for MS Dhoni.
Ashish Nehra, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar made up the pace quartet.
Sachin Tendulkar returned to the side, after skipping the ODI series in the West Indies and so did Suresh Raina, who missed the Caribbean tour with a thumb injury, costing Rohit Sharma his place in the side.
The selected Indian players will have a four-day training camp at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore from August 27. The camp is expected to focus on both physical conditioning and skills before the players disperse on August 30 to participate in the BCCI Corporate Cup.
The team is expected to regroup on September 7 before leaving for the Sri Lanka tri-series.
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Abhishek Nayar and Praveen Kumar.
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