The ODI matches starting from 3rd September is of prior importance to the Indian squad after loosing four test matches and one twenty- twenty in a row. Injuries are still threatening the squad. Virendar Sehwag and Gautham Gambir- the best opening pair of Indian team won't get a chance in this series. Similarly Zaheer Khan also lost the series due to injury. Veteran player Dravid found a place in this squad after his awesome performance in the test series and Twenty-twenty match.Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh are also omitted from the team for the same reason as the above three.
The first team squad list was like this:
M.S. Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Zaheer Khan, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Amit Mishra and Parthiv Patel.
But, Virender Sehwag, Gautham Gambhir and Zaheer Khan were omitted later from the team.
