THE WALL IS BACK

Rahul Dravid is back to the India one-day squad after two years. He is part of the team that was selected for tri-series in Srilanka and Champions Trophy in South Africa. Sehwag and Zaheer Khan were out due to injuries. Rohit Sharma was dropped from the squad due to his inconsistent run so far.

Art of Innings Building

The youngsters can learn the art of building the innings from the stalwarts like Sachin and Rahul. The selection of Rahul serves many purposes for Team India. One: Younger players can learn the art of building the innings from Rahul. Two: Someone like Dhoni can play his natural game. Three: Everybody can play around him and thus wickets are kept intact and at the same time score board automatically ticks on. Fo(u)remost: Numerous fans like me can again watch this great player on action in one-dayers.

Rohit Sharma - Another Ashraful?

Rohit Sharma has the potential to become next Rahul or Sachin. “Inconsistency” is the one word which separates him from those greats. With his regularly increasing degree of inconsistency he is going more the way of Mohammed Ashraful. Ashraful is also a talented batsman but he was never consistent. His success rate was very low. I hope Rohit Sharma addresses this deficit of him and come back as a stronger batsman.

India one-day squad

1. Sachin Tendulkar

2. Gautam Gambhir

3. Rahul Dravid

4. Suresh Raina

5. Yuvraj Singh

6. MS Dhoni

7. Yusuf Pathan

8. Harbhajan Singh

9. Praveen Kumar

10. Ishant Sharma

11. Ashish Nehra

12. RP Singh

13. Amit Mishra

14. Dinesh Karthik

15. Abhishek Nayar

Srilanka Tri-Series Fixtures

1^st Match - Srilanka vs New Zealand, Sep 8

2^nd Match - India vs New Zealand, Sep 11

3^rd Match - India vs Srilanka, Sep 12

Final - Sep 14

All are day/night encounters played at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. All matches starts at 14:30 IST.

Champions Trophy Fixtures

Group A: India, Australia, Pakistan and West Indies

Group B: South Africa, Srilanka, England and New Zealand

Tue Sep 22 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Wed Sep 23 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group A - Pakistan v West Indies, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Thu Sep 24 09:30 local | 07:30 GMT | 13:00 IST

Group B - South Africa v New Zealand, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Fri Sep 25 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group B - England v Sri Lanka, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sat Sep 26 09:30 local | 07:30 GMT | 13:00 IST

Group A - Australia v West Indies, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sat Sep 26 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group A - India v Pakistan, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Sun Sep 27 09:30 local | 07:30 GMT | 13:00 IST

Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sun Sep 27 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group B - South Africa v England, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Mon Sep 28 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group A - Australia v India, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Tue Sep 29 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group B - England v New Zealand, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Wed Sep 30 09:30 local | 07:30 GMT | 13:00 IST

Group A - Australia v Pakistan, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Wed Sep 30 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Group A - India v West Indies, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Fri Oct 2 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

1st Semi-Final - (A1 v B2), SuperSport Park, Centurion

Sat Oct 3 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

2nd Semi-Final - (B1 v A2), New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Mon Oct 5 14:30 local | 12:30 GMT | 18:00 IST

Final, SuperSport Park, Centurion