recently BCCI the board of cricket control in india announced the names of the players
To represent indian squad in the worldcup.the names included in the squad are Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain/wk), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin, Ashish Nehra .the main surprise is the selection of the off spinner R Ashwin and the leg spinner piyush chawla but indian skeeper Mahendra Dhoni justified the inclusion of the piyush in the squad saying that piyush will add a lot of variety including googly in the indian attack he also added that pisyush is also good with bat as he scored good in the ranji matches.Dhoni said that Piyush is picked as a allrounder.Wasim Akram also supported the selection of the piyush in the squad because of his good performance in ranji matches but the omission of rohit sharma from the squad surprised wasim very much.indan formal captain sourav ganguly said that the selection of only 1 wicketkeeper surprised him a lot Ganguly termed it a gamble to pick only one wicketkeeper in skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the extravaganza that will continue in the subcontinent for about 40 days.

Match referee JJ Crowe of New Zealand handed Dhoni a 2-match ban for slow-over rate uring India’s 3-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka at Nagpur on Friday.

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