Sreesanth, Zaheer makes a comeback for Sri Lanka series
Indian pace spearhead ‘Zaheer Khan’ returned to the squad after recovering from a shoulder injury, which had kept him out of India's recent assignments whereas seamer ‘S. Sreesanth’ staged a surprise comeback into India's 15-member Test squad for the first two cricket Tests against Sri Lanka starting November 16 in Ahmedabad.
The team to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni also includes Tamil Nadu players opener Murali Vijay and middle-order paceman S Badrinath.
Despite of his good performance in the ongoing series against Australia, Ashish Nehra failed to get the selector’s nod. Also Pacer Munaf Patel, batsmen Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli, who are playing in the series against Australia, was not considered for selection for the three-match Test series.
On the other hand Veteran Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman retained their places in the test Squad.
The 15 man squad for the Test Series are:
· Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt)
· Virender Sehwag
· Sachin Tendulkar
· Gautam Gambhir
· Rahul Dravid
· V V S Laxman
· Yuvraj Singh
· Harbhajan Singh
· Amit Mishra
· Zaheer Khan
· Ishant Sharma
· M Vijay
· Pragyan Ojha
· S Sreesanth
· S Badrinath.
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