Sehwag sent home, Ganguly returns to ODIs

Vice Captain Virender Sehwag who is not in form of late, is out of the first two one dayers against West Indies. Irfan Pathan is replaced by Haryana's all rounder Joginder Sharma. Also, there was no place for Mohammad Kaif or Dinesh Mongia in the team.

The squad of 15 men was declared by Niranjan Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India who also announced the 30 probables for the approaching World Cup in West Indies. 

The team for the first two ODIs contains four openers - Sachin Tendukar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa. The chairman Dilip Vengsarkar has left it to the captain and the coach to decide who would open the innings. 

Squad for the first two one-day internationals against the West Indies Rahul Dravid (Capt.), Sachin Tendulkar (vice-capt), Robin Uthappa, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, Joginder Sharma, Ramesh Powar, Harbhajan Singh, Rudra Pratap Singh 

However, all the players who are out of the ODIs are included in the list of probables for the World Cup announced by Mr. Niranjan Shah at this meeting.

World Cup probables Rahul Dravid (capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, Suresh Raina, Ramesh Powar, Anil Kumble, Rudra Pratap Singh, Dinesh Mongia, VRV Singh, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik, Sourav Ganguly, Parthiv Patel, Zaheer Khan, VVS Laxman, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, S. Badrinath, Ishant Sharma, Rajesh Pawar, Joginder Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara.