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    • Agencies Tags : India, Sri Lanka, Zaheer Khan, S Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni Posted: Tuesday , Nov 10, 2009 at 1748 hrs Mumbai:
    S Sreesanth
    Sreesanth has made a comeback to the India test squad for the series against Sri Lanka.

    Pacer S Sreesanth on Tuesday staged a surprise comeback into India's 15-member Test squad for the first two cricket Tests against Sri Lanka starting November 16 in Ahmedabad.

    Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan returned to the squad after recovering from a shoulder injury, which had kept him out of India's recent assignments. The team to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni also includes Tamil Nadu players opener Murali Vijay and middle-order paceman S Badrinath.

    Ashish Nehra, who did reasonably well in the ongoing one-day series against Australia, failed to get the selectors' nod.

    Pacer Munaf Patel, batsmen Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli, who are playing in the series against Australia, were not consisted for selection for the three-match Test series. As expected, the veteran batting duo of Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman retained their places.

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    Team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, M Vijay, Pragyan Ojha, S Sreesanth and S Badrinath.

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    Stats For YouBy: Arun | 11-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Sreesanth - Best 5For40Ishant - Best 5for118Sreesanth - Economy Rate 3.29Ishant - Economy Rate 3.21Sreesanth - Balls 2871Maidens - 113
    Mr.By: Alex | 11-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Sreeshanth has more often than not performed reasonably well in the limited opportunities he has got. His contribution in the T20 WC was an important factor in India winning the cup in SA. Munaf has been a dissapointment in the current IND/OZ ODI series unable to complete his quota in the matches he played, his fielding and batting is below par. As for Nehra his fitness for the longer version is doubtful. Batsmen like Raina, Rohit and Jadeja have been given many opportunities and none of them could seize their chances as some of the other youngsters of other cricketng nations (Duminy, Trott, White, Paine etc) who have won matches for their respective countries. These guys are rightly called flat pitch bullies and of late they are not even good at that. Murli and Badri may perform better if they are given a good run in the team.
    Teams for tests, ODIs and T20s will be different ! By: Commoner | 11-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward I am surprised at the reaction to the inclusion of Vijay and Badrinath in the team - they have done nothing wrong in the longer form of the gane and deserve to be in the team. Vijay is the backup opener and Badri is the backup middle order batsman. As regard Sreesanth, he has the pace and the talent, perhaps lacks the confidence & temparament currently. Selectors have a prerogative to make a few bold choices and why not Sreesanth ? Performance in ODIs and T20s cannot be a parameter for selection of the test team.
    Team IndiaBy: M.V.Muthu | 10-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward In a deeper sense, the team selection exposes the whims and fancies of the selectors and especially the chairman. It is doubutful whether the Captain and the coach had agreed to this. How else can anyone accept selection of Sreesanth, Vijay and Badri in preference to a Nehra or a Tyagi or a Munaf Patel or Rohit Sharma or Raina or Jadeja! It is true that even the best team selected would evoke criticism but unfortunately, this is not the best team.
    Inclusion of SreesanthBy: murthy | 10-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward It isridiculous to include the indisplined sportsperson of the centruy Srisanth in our cricket team. He lacks everything includein bowling in cricket. Even God will not save and we will continue to get defeat.
    SreeshanthBy: Bob | 12-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Murthy relax, K srikanth the Selection committe chairman and the rest are not dumb fools allow them to do their jobs if they are not efficient we will remove them from their posts
    Inclusion of SreeBy: Ramesh | 11-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Muthu, let God takes the decision. You are not God. Don't forget the catch he took for the last wicket against Pakis and lift 20 20 world cup! The selectors are not fool. They have Vision . So calm down, wait and see!
    Include new set of PlayersBy: Kannan | 13-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward It is a better idea to include new Players to the side and allow them to settledown. We can go ahead with a bowling combination with Zaheer,L.Balaji,M.Gony,S.Tyagi. For ODI's include S.Badrinath as a stable middle order Batsman ,Include Ramesh Powar as Allrounder , Bring in new fresh faces.Retry Irfan pathan too ,if he scores consistently this season.
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