ICC World Cup 2011: India to announce final squad on 17 January
Board of Control for Cricket in India will announce its final 15-man squad for February’s World Cup on 17 January, 2011. This was revealed by a BCCI official on Friday.
“The selection committee is to pick the World Cup squad on the 17th at Chennai,” said the official.
The selection panel, headed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Krishnamachari-Srikkanth-c71750, will meet on Monday to trim its 30-member preliminary squad to a list of 15 as per the International Cricket Council’s regulations for the mega cricketing event.
The ICC World Cup 2011 will be the tenth episode of cricket world cups. It will be jointly hosted by three South Asian Test cricketing nations. India is also one of the three World Cup hosts, the other two being http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758
and Bangladesh. The quadrennial event kick-starts in Dhaka on 19 February and will run until 4 April.
India have been placed in Group B which also includes co-hosts Bangladesh. The other five teams of the group are England, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 and Netherlands.
India will feature in the opening match of the World Cup against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 on 19 February.
But before the start of the main event, Dhoni’s men are scheduled to play two warm-up matches against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
So far, only three of the total 14 World Cup participating teams have announced their final squads for the event. These three are Sri Lanka, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753. Australia is expected to announce its final-15 on 19 January.
If we look at the form and reputation of Indian players in the recent past, the shape of its first eleven for the mega event will be like this: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 (capt),
Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashish-Nehra-c46293 and Zaheer Khan.
India World Cup Schedule – Group stage
19 February
India vs. Bangladesh in Dhaka
27 February
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 vs. England in Kolkata
06 March
India vs. Ireland in Bangalore
09 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391
India vs. Netherlands in New http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780
12 March
India vs. South Africa in Nagpur
20 March
India vs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in Chennai
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