Chawla, Vinay in Indian World T20 squad
India have recalled Piyush Chawla and drafted in R Vinay Kumar in their ICC World Twenty20 squad to travel to the West Indies.
There have been no major surprises in the selection with the exception of Chawla. Batsmen like Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli and Manish Pandey, who had been in good form during the ongoing Indian Premier League did not find a place in the list either.
Rohit Sharma, who had looked patchy at best, however was inducted into the squad. Bangalore's R Vinay Kumar has finally been awarded after some consistent showing in the domestic circuit besides doing reasonably well in the IPL.
In last June's Twenty20 World Cup in England, India's defence for the title they won with much fanfare in 2007 in South Africa was affected because of injuries to key players Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan.
However, that seems to have been corrected with all of India's key players now in the squad. Struggling Indian seamer, Ishant Sharma was dropped after repeated poor performances.
Meanwhile, India's chief selector K Srikkanth told journalists he was happy with the final team and hoped the boys would do well in the West Indies: "The conditions and wickets in the West Indies are very similar to the ones here in India. Those conditions will suit our bowlers and batsmen.
"We are happy with the fitness of the players in the squad and all of them will soon submit their fitness certificates to the BCCI."
Indian Squad: MS Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (Vice-Captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja, Vinay Kumar, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla
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