Saturday 12 November 2011

Indian Team announced for Kolkata Test, Harbhajan still not selected

According to the fresh news there will be no change in the Indian cricket team squad for the second test against West Indies series starts on November 14 in Kolkota. In this test leg-spinner Rahul Sharma will again replace the offspiner Harbhajan Singh.

Though India won the first test in Delhi with the margin of 5 wickets, but West Indies gave a tough task as they took a 95- run lead in first-innings .The batsman that just returned from their injury like Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar made vital hand-outs to the victory. Three other players like Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma and Yuvraj Singh showed their out-come of the fitness problem through-out the test.

The new bowling attack with untested left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha fared well taking six wickets and Man of the Match R Ashwin grabs six wickets in the second innings on his introduction match. Their extraordinary presentation ensured that Harbhajan, a confident chooses in Indian team will have to wait for the chance to make his comeback.



The shining spots of dreadful tour of England's medium- pacer Praveen Kumar is also in the list of overlooked by the selectors. The reason behind is not his fitness as he played the Ranji Trophy Match for Uttar Pradesh against Saurashtra, begin on Thursday.

However, India may be want to try out with the fast option of  Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron sooner than the big tour of Australia later this year.

Squad:  MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Sharma, Varun Aaron.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

SO SAD FOR BHAJJI. BT DONT WORRY HARBAJAN WILL COME BACK WITH FULL ENERGY.

Anonymous said...

harbhajan ka kam very good hai.. i knw jaldi hi,he will select.and plz aap update jarur krna maan sir...