The national selectors, who met for one and half hours to finalise the team here, picked up three specialist spinners including Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla. Young batsman Rohit Sharma and pacer S. Sreesanth were on Monday omitted from Indias 15-member squad for the upcoming cricket World Cup to be held in the sub-continent from February 19.

Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla were named in the squad to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and which includes most of the star players like Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. The national selectors, who met for one and half hours to finalise the team, picked three specialist spinners considering that the high-profile event will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Published Date : Tuesday, 18/1/2011 2:25 PM IST