By CricketCountry Staff
India's fast bowler Umesh Yadav will leave for Australia on December 8 with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha and Wriddhiman Saha.
Published: Dec 06, 2011, 12:47 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 06, 2011, 12:47 PM (IST)
The Test series against Australia will begin with the Boxing Day (December 26) Test in Melbourne © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Mumbai: Dec 6, 2011
India’s fast bowler Umesh Yadav will leave for Australia on December 8 with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha and Wriddhiman Saha.
The 17-member India squad for four-match Test series against Australia, starting December 26, will leave for Canberra in two batches.
The members of the Test squad, who are not playing in the ongoing one-day series against West Indies, will leave for Australia on December 8 from Mumbai, while the second batch will leave from Chennai on December 12.
India will play two warm-up matches – first against Cricket Australia Chairman’s XI from December 15-16, and second from December 19-21.
The players who will leave in the second batch will attend the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) annual awards function, to be held in Chennai on December 10.
Dravid, who has been named for the Polly Umrigar Award, is likely to miss the function.
Shivlal Yadav will be the team manager for Test series, while Arshad Ayub will be the manager for tri-series.
Squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Zaheer Khan.
