Team announced for ODI series against Australia
 

Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, , Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi.

Team announced for ODI series against Australia |

Rahul Dravid dropped |

Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh back in squad |

Yusuf Pathan and R P Singh dropped |

Munaf Patel returns to 15-member squad |

Dinesh Karthik omitted

NEW DELHI: Rahul Dravid, who made a comeback to the 50-overs format after two years, was dropped from the 15 member squad for the 7 match <table class="cnt" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 6px;" align="left" width="310"><tbody><tr><td id="bellyad" style="padding-left: 3px;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...0&resizemode=4


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Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh made a comeback in the squad after recovering from injuries. Uttar Pradesh pacer Sudeep Tyagi was also given a nod by the selectors.

Yusuf Pathan, RP Singh and Dinesh Karthik were dropped from Indian ODI team.

In the spin department, Harbhajan Singh remained the frontline tweaker.

The Australians commence their campaign on October 25 at Vadodara and play the seventh and final tie at Mumbai on November 11.

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Chennai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) sacked Robin Singh and Venkatesh Prasad as fielding and bowling coach for the Indian team.


According to sources, the Indian board was unhappy with the duo's performance and their services have been discontinued with immediate effect.


"The BCCI has decided to discontinue the services of bowling coach Mr. Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Mr. Robin Singh, with immediate effect," said a BCCI statement.