The team has seven batsmen, one all-rounder, four pacers and three spinners.
Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina have been retained his place from the present team on a tour of South Africa. Virender Sehwag(Vice-captain), has made areturn for cricket's biggest event.
Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar and Ashish Nehra will take care of bowling while Harbhajan, R. Ashwin and Piyush Chawla form the spinners.
Yusuf Pathan has been taken the all-rounder's job. Wicket-keeping has been as usual entirely to captain M.S. Dhoni.
Those who failed to find a place in the team include spinner Pragyan Ojha, pacer S. Sreesanth and all-rounder Rohit Sharma.
The selection sheet, headed by chief selector K. Srikkanth, chose the team out of a list of 30 probables. Dhoni and coach Gary Kirsten, who are at present busy with the ODI series in South Africa, were also part of the consultations done through teleconferencing.
The 15-member team is:
- MS Dhoni (C)
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Virender Sehwag
- Gautam Gambhir
- Yuvraj Singh
- Suresh Raina
- Virat Kohli
- Yusuf Pathan (all-rounder)
- Zaheer Khan
- Ashish Nehra
- Munaf Patel
- Praveen Kumar
- Harbhajan Singh
- R. Ashwin
- Piyush Chawla
"We have selected the best combination after consultations with the captain and the coach. I am confident this team will win the World Cup for us," Srikkanth said in Chennai.
He brushed aside concerns over fitness of the players, saying: "Every team has injury concerns. Why worry about it?"
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