Gambhir, Ishant return for New Zealand series

Oct 25, 2010 |

IANS

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New Zealand series

The selections for the New Zealand cricket Test series did not throw up any surprises with Mahendra Singh Dhoni leading a 15-member Indian team for the three-match series beginning November 4 in Ahmedabad.

Seamer Ishant Sharma and opening batsman Gambhir return to the squad after sitting out the second of the two Tests against visiting Australia earlier this month due to knee injuries.

The pair played in the first Test at Mohali that India won by one wicket, but missed the second game in Bengaluru where the home team clinched the series 2-0 with a seven-wicket victory.

Going out of the Test squad are batsman Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu) and left-arm seamer Jaidev Unadkat (Saurashtra) both of whom were included for the Bengaluru game as back-up players and did not get into the playing 11.

New Zealand are scheduled to play three Test matches at Ahmedabad (November 4-8), Hyderabad (November 12-16) and Nagpur (November 20-24).

The Test series will be followed by five one-day Internationals on November 28 (Guwahati), December 1 (Jaipur), December 4 (Vadodara), December 7 (Bengaluru) and December 10 (Chennai).

The Indian team will then head to South Africa for three Tests and five ODIs December 16-January 23, 2011.

The squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Murali Vijay, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Santhakumaran Sreesanth, Pragyan Ojha, Cheteshwar Pujara and Amit Mishra.

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