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India Announces 15 Member squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Indian squad: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) selection committee, headed by its chairman K Srikkanth, today announced a 15-member squad for the 2011 ICC World Cup to be played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from February 19 to April 2.
The selectors took into consideration the fact that spin would make a big difference in winning on wickets in the sub-continents, specially in India, and picked three spinners in Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin (both off-spinners) and leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, who has been recalled.
India will take on Bangladesh in the opening match to be played in Dhaka on February 19.
The team:
M S Dhoni (Captain), Virendra Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvaraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R Ashwin,
Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla.
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