Twenty two year old Kerala's new ball bowler S. Sree Santh has been picked in the Indian Squad for the first two One Day Internationals against Sri Lanka. He now becomes only the second player from Kerala after Tinu Yohannan to be selected in the Indian team. Sree Santh has 58 first class wickets as of date with two five wicket hauls and also happens to be the first Kerala bowler to take a hat-trick in the Ranji Trophy. Along with Sree Santh, dashing left hand opener Gautam Gambhir has also made it to the squad in place of Sourav Ganguly who is not fit owing to his tennis elbow injury. Young guns Y.Venugopal Rao, Suresh Raina and Rudra Pratap Singh who were all part of the Videocon Tri Series in Zimbabwe have retained their places. V.V.S.Laxman, Zaheer Khan and Lakshmipathy Balaji have failed to get into the One Day Side. Mohammad Kaif who tore his hamstring during the final of the Challenger Trophy is also out of the side for the 2 ODIs. The side will be captained by Rahul Dravid and he will be leading the side for the 2 ODIs Series against Sri Lanka and South Africa as announced yesterday. The 1st ODI between India and Sri Lanka begins on October 25th at Nagpur.

 

 

Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid (Captain), Yuvraj Singh, Y.Venugopal Rao, Suresh Raina, Jai Prakash Yadav, M.S.Dhoni (Wicket Keeper), Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, S Sreesanth, R.P.Singh