Zaheer Khan to miss one-day series

Zaheer Khan: will miss out on the action © AFP

Zaheer Khan has been left out of the Indian one-day squad for the tri-series cricket tournament in Australia. Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Sanjay Bangar and Hemang Badani will join the team for the tournament. Apart from Zaheer, Sadagoppan Ramesh, Deep Dasgupta and Akash Chopra will also miss the tournament.

SK Nair, the secretary of the BCCI, announced the 16-member squad after the selection committee meeting today. Zimbabwe are the third team in the competition, which will start on January 9th at Melbourne.

Squad
1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Rahul Dravid, 3 Sachin Tendulkar, 4 Virender Sehwag, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 Mohammad Kaif, 8 Parthiv Patel (wk), 9 Ajit Agarkar, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Murali Kartik, 12 Irfan Pathan, 13 Ashish Nehra, 14 L Balaji, 15 Sanjay Bangar, 16 Hemang Badani.