BCCI on Tuesday named the squads for September’s Twenty20 World Cup and the seven-game one-day series against hosts England from Aug 21. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named as the captain fot the Twenty20 World cup to be held in South Africa in September.
Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag and Irfan Pathan, who didn’t find a place in the ongoing Test series against England, have been recalled for twenty20 WC.
While Rahul Dravid will lead the side in the seven ODIs against England, Dhoni will function as his deputy.
Twenty20 squad: Mahendra Dhoni (captain), Yuvraj Singh (vice-captain), Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Joginder Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Rohit Sharma, Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh.
One-day squad: Rahul Dravid (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Saurav Ganguly, Mahendra Dhoni (vice-captain), Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar, Ajit Agarkar, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel.