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India picks RP Singh and Ojha for World Twenty20
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 05 - 2009

India on Monday rewarded Rudra Pratap Singh and Pragyan Ojha for their recent good form by picking them in a 15-man squad to defend the World Twenty20 title in England next month.
Left-arm seamer Singh, who last donned India colors against England in November, was recalled after picking 12 wickets from six games in the ongoing Indian Premier League in South Africa.
Ojha, a left-arm spinner, is the second-most successful Indian bowler in the IPL after his Deccan Chargers teammate Singh, with 10 wickets in six matches.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team will also be bolstered by the inclusion of pace spearheads Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma, who both missed the world championships two years ago.
The selectors retained nine members of the winning squad, leaving out seamers Ajit Agarkar, Joginder Sharma and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, batsmen Robin Uthappa and Dinesh Karthick, and spinner Piyush Chawla.
Veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar has made himself unavailable for Twenty20 internationals despite leading Mumbai Indians in the IPL.
India has a good Twenty20 record, with eight wins in 13 matches so far. But since beating Pakistan in the 2007 final in Johannesburg, the Indians have lost three of their five matches, including both games on the recent tour of New Zealand.
India is drawn with Ireland and Bangladesh in the preliminary round of next month's event that will be played in London and Nottingham from June 5-21.
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha, Irfan Pathan. Coach: Gary Kirsten.
South Africa squad
Johan Botha, reported last month for a suspect bowling action, was included as vice captain when South Africa named its squad on Monday for the T20 World Cup in June. All-rounder Jacques Kallis is also back in the squad.
Team: Graeme Smith (captain), Johan Botha, Yusuf Abdulla, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Justin Ontong, Wayne Parnell, Robbie Peterson, Dale Steyn, Roelof van der Merwe.


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