It would not be an exaggeration if one says the England tour has proved to be a jinxed one for the Indian cricket team. Having lost eight players on the tour already to various injuries, India are now struggling to compile a playing XI for the second ODI that would give them a chance to win their first international match on the English soil in the current series.
List of Injured Players :
Rohit Sharma,
Virender Sehwag,
Zaheer Khan,
Gautam Gambhir,
Yuvraj Singh,
Ishant Sharma,
Harbhajan Singh and
Sachin Tendulkar
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series against England as he needs to rest for four to six weeks to recover from an inflamed big toe on his right foot. The injury to Tendulkar has paved the way for his replacement S Badrinath to stake yet another claim for a place in the Indian squad.
At the time only 6 batesmen ( Included Dhoni ) are available for selection in plaing XI For Second ODI. So All of You Pray to GOD for Health Indian Cricketers.
The Indian team lost the final match by an innings margin which meant England didn’t have to bat again. In the post match ceremony Dhoni was smiling as ever but he was not at all hesitant in saying that India lost the series because of the batmen. English captain on the other hand, seemed pretty happy as they won the series and are now crowned number 1 in tests.
The Indian team will be hoping for a better show in one dayers and both teams will play 5 ODI’s and one T-20 match in the coming days. It will be quite difficult for India to comeback from such a demoralizing defeat but they will have to fight hard to win.
Schedule of India's tour of England 2011
31 August 2011
India v England, only T20 (N)
Old Trafford in Manchester
3 September 2011
India v England, 1st oneday
Chester-le-Street
6 September 2011
India v England, 2nd oneday (D/N)
Rose bowl in Southampton
9 September 2011
India v England, 3rd oneday (D/N)
Brit insurance Oval
11 September 2011
India v England, 4th oneday
Lord's in London
16 September 2011
India v England, 5th oneday (D/N)
Swalec stadium, Cardiff
India team for ODI series against England:
MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wk), Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar
History : India have played 6 series and won twice, losing 4 times including last time when England won 7 ODI series 4-3.
Bangalore, August 6 (Yahoo! Cricket): Former India captain Rahul Dravid was the surprise inclusion in India's 16-man squad for the one-off Twenty20 international and the five-match one-day international series that will follow the Test series against England.
Dravid, who has scored 10765 runs at an average of 39.43 in 339 ODIs, last turned out for India in colored clothing during the Champions Trophy in South Africa in 2009. The experienced batsman has been the best Indian batsman on show in the first two Tests even as the rest of the famed batting line-up has struggled to cope with the seaming conditions in England, and this could probably be the reason Dravid has been included in the ODI squad by the selection committee headed by former skipper Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
As expected, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have been excluded because of injuries the pair sustained during India's humiliating 319-run defeat at Trent Bridge to go down 0-2 in the four-Test series and are out of action for four and three weeks respectively. While Yuvraj hasn't played an ODI since being named Man of the Tournament in the 2011 World Cup; Harbhajan has been far below his best in West Indies as well as England.
Swashbuckling opening batsman Virender Sehwag, who has recently regained fitness after his shoulder surgery in May, has been named vice-captain of the limited overs squads.
T20 & ODI Team Squad: MS Dhoni (capt and wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wk), Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar.
