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Indian World Cup Team 2011 announced!
India World Cup team for the 2011 cricket world cup has been announced today! The selection committee lead by Krishnamachari Srikanth has announced the squad of 15 members in Chennai, who will take the responsibility of winning world cup for India.
The batsmen are quite obvious persons like Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh where as bowlers include Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. India included three spinners with Harbhajan Singh heading the slow bowling department with Piyush Chawla and R Ashwin as his spin partner and dropped Rohit Sharma.
The top-seven of the Indian batting-order — Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni — are in the team as expected and Yusuf Pathan take the all-rounder’s berth.
The inspirational Zaheer Khan lead the pace attack and his pacer partners will be the trio of Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel and Praveen Kumar. S Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma failed to make their place this year.
India World Cup Team 2011: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/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