Sachin Tendulkar today made way for Sourav Ganguly while Zaheer Khan
was included as the sixth Indian in the revised 14-member one-day Asia cricket
team for the Afro Asian Cup beginning in Bangalore on June 6.
Sri Lankan Dilhara Fernando and Mashrafe Mortaza of Bangladesh were
the other two new faces in the squad after Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar
and Sri Lankan pacemen Chaminda Vaas and Lasitha Malinga made themselves
unavailable for the three-match series.
Selectors of the second Afro-Asia Cup - ASM Farooque, Chetan Chauhan, Mohsin Khan and Lalith Kaluperuma -- named the revised
squad after the four cricketers made themselves unavailable for the series.
"Following the unavailability of some players named in
the original squads on May 11, the selectors have named their final squads for
the three ODI matches in Bangalore and Chennai on June 6, 9 and 10 and the Twenty20
match on June 5," a statement said today.
Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan
Singh are the other four Indians who were named in the original squad announced
earlier this month.
The 11-member squad for the Afro Asia Twenty20 tournament
also saw one change as S Sreesanth replaced Munaf Patel, who was called back
from Bangladesh series due to lower back pain.
Sreesanth, who was also earlier recalled from Bangladesh owing
to a calf muscle injury during the ODIs, has recovered to make a come back to
the international scene.
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