Opener Virender Sehwag was recalled to the India squad Thursday following shoulder surgery for the first two games of a one-day series against Australia later this month, though Rahul Dravid was dropped. Sehwag missed the Twenty20 World Cup, and the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa while recovering from the surgery. Dravid had been recalled to the one-day squad for the Champions Trophy to bolster the injury-hit side, though he joined struggling pace bowler Rudra Pratap Singh and all-rounder Yusuf Pathan as being unwanted by the selectors. Batsman Yuvraj Singh, who missed the Champions Trophy with a broken finger, was named in the 15-player squad in the hope he would be fit to start the seven-match series, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a release. Uncapped 22-year-old pace bowler Sudeep Tyagi was also included after some good domestic performances for Uttar Pradesh. The first match will be played in Baroda on Oct. 25 and the second in Nagpur on Oct. 28. Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi. Coaches sacked India's cricket chiefs Thursday sacked the national team's bowling and fielding coaches after the side's first-round exit from the Champions Trophy in South Africa. The Indian cricket board “has decided to discontinue the services of bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh with immediate effect,” board secretary N. Srinivasan said in a terse one-line statement. Srinivasan did not detail why the two former India internationals, who had been involved with the national team since the tour of Bangladesh in May 2007, were removed. The board is expected to name their replacements before the seven-match one-day home series against world champion Australia, which opens on Oct. 25. An unnamed board official was quoted by Cricinfo as saying that head coach Gary Kirsten and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni were not part of the decision. Prasad and Singh had faced heavy criticism over the team's poor bowling and fielding, which saw India fail to make the semifinals of the World Twenty20 in June and the Champions Trophy last month.
