India name World T20 squad, Yuvraj Singh returns – Cricket News Update
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday announced its 15-man final squad for next month’s World T20 Championship, to be held in Sri Lanka. The highlight of the Indian squad is stylish all-rounder Yuvraj Singh’s return
to the national set-up, after battling a cancerous lung tumour, which kept him away from the squad for almost ten months.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 to pick up squads for the World T20 as well as for the two-match
home Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754. Though the all-rounder lacks match practice, the Indian selectors kept faith in his class and included him in the final list for the marquee tournament.
Another http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 cricketer returning to the squad after waiting for more than a year, is off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who has been recalled despite struggling with the ball of late. Harbhajan last played for India in August 2011, during
the winless tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, and had not been picked in the national side since then.
The other players making a comeback to the national set up after gap of more than two years included leg-spinner Piyush Chawla and seamer L Balaji. Chawla last donned Indian colours during the tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 in 2010, while Balaji’s
last appearance for the Men in Blue had come in February 2009 and is yet to debut in the shortest format of the game at international level.
"We have picked the best possible Test team," http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Krishnamachari-Srikkanth-c71750, the chairman of selectors, said. "We looked at the conditions (in Sri Lanka) for the World T20. We feel that we have picked a team that will win us the World Cup. We are
very happy Yuvi (Yuvraj) has been declared fit. In 2011 World Cup, he was the Man of the Series. He is a crucial factor from India's point of view."
The latest edition of the World T20 Championship gets underway in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 on September 18 and will run till October 7.
T20 squad: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, Ashok
Dinda
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