Thursday, April 29, 2010

India squad for T20 world cup 2010 : MS Dhoni captain.

India squad for T20 world cup 2010 Indian squad for T20 world cup 2010 to be held in West Indies will be captained by wicket keeper batsman MS Dhoni. Irfan Pathan is the notable name not in the squad as he’s lost selectors favour in recent times.

India’s performance in World T20s

India won the inagural T20 tournament back in 2007 in South Africa but their performance in 2009 edition was poor. May 2010 will be a chance for asian giants to reclaim the trophy the once held.

Following are the players selected in 15 member squad, cut short from preliminary pool of 30 players, according to ICC rules. R Vinay Kumar gets his maiden International call after two good season in Ranji trophy and impressive IPL 2010.

Age, number of T20 matches played and playing role of each player in the squad has been mentioned.

India squad for T20 world cup 2010.

Names Age T20 Mts Playing role
MS Dhoni (captain) 28 20 Right hand bat, wicket keeper
Virendra Sehwag (v-capt) 31 14 Right handed opening batsman
Gautam Gambhir 28 19 Left handed opening batsman
Yuvraj Singh 28 17 Left handed bat, left arm spinner
Suresh Raina 23 11 Left handed middle order batsman
Rohit Sharma 23 11 Right handed bat, off spinner
Yousuf Pathan 27 11 Right handed middle order bat, offspin
Ravindra Jadeja 21 5 Left handed batsman, left arm spin
Dinesh Karthik 24 7 Right handed batsman, wicket keeper
Harbhajan Singh 29 17 Offspinner, useful lower order batsman
Piyush Chawla 21 none Leg spinner, left handed batsman
Zaheer Khan 31 9 Left arm medium fast bowler
Praveen Kumar 23 1 Right arm medium, can slog
Ashish Nehra 31 2 Left arm medium fast bowler
R Vinay Kumar 26 none Right arm fast medium bowler
Players who couldn’t make the cut and are in stand-by.
Virat Kohli 21 none Right handed middle order batsman
Murali Vijay 26 none Right handed opening batsman
Manish Pandey 20 none Right handed middle order batsman
Abhishek Nayar 26 none Left handed bat, right arm medium pace
Wriddhiman Saha 25 none Right handed batsman, wicket keeper
Naman Ojha 26 none Right handed batsman, wicket keeper
Amit Mishra 27 none Leg spinner, also can slog
Pragyan Ojha 23 4 Left arm orthodox spinner
Ravichandran Ashwin 23 none Right arm off spinner
S Sreesanth 27 10 Right arm medium fast bowler
Sudeep Tyagi 22 1 Right arm medium fast bowler
Ishant Sharma 21 11 Right arm fast medium bowler
RP Singh 24 10 Left arm medium fast bowler
Abhimanyu Mithun 20 none Right arm medium fast bowler

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