Harbhajan Singh Dropped for 1st Two-ODI matches against England

According to the fresh reports released by the BCCI saying that it has issued the list of all the 15-man squad for the first two games of their one-day international series against England, which starts on 14 October.

Further. The fresh list includes seven players, including star names Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh who are missing with injuries sustained on the recent tour of England.

However, the good news is that opening batsman Gautam Gambhir returns after missing the ODIs in England with concussion.

But there is no place for fit-again spinner Harbhajan Singh.

THE SQUAD:

MS Dhoni (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja , R Ashwin, Varun Aaron, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, S Arvind, Rahul Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Praveen Kumar

Challenger Trophy Teams

Harbhajan will lead India Greens, while India Blue and India Red will be led by S Badrinath and Gautam Gambhir respectively. However, if India Red make the final on Oct 13, Gambhir won't be available, as he is in the Indian team as well which plays its first match on Oct 14.

INDIA BLUE: S Badrinath (capt), M Vijay, Paul Valthaty, Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey, Mandeep Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Irfan Pathan, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, YV Krishanarty, Prashant Parameshwaran, Pradeep Sangwan, Tanmay Srivastava.

INDIA GREEN: Harbhajan Singh (capt), Robin Uthappa, Anirudha Srikkanth, Tirumalasetti Suman, Mohnish Mishra, Ishank Jaggi, Md Kaif, CM Gautham, S Ladda , Iqbal Abdullah, Abhimanyu Mithun, Samad Fallah, Ishwar Choudhary, S Narwal.

INDIA RED: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Abhinav Mukund, Ambati Rayudu, Ashok Menaria, Wriddhiman Saha, Jalaj Saxena, Piyush Chawla, Bhargava Bhatt, Pankaj Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, T Sudhendra, Yusuf Pathan, RP Singh.