The Board of Control for Cricket in India - the country's cricket administrators - had threatened to pull out of this year's Champions Trophy as it was unhappy with the revamped revenue-sharing model.
Selectors avoid any surprises in Champions Trophy squad; recall Shami and keep Karthik, Pant as standby.
"He represented India in the last worldwide game".
In fact, Prasad had no hesitation in reeling off the names of Rishabh Pant, Shardul Thakur, Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik, apart from Kuldeep Yadav, as the players who were discussed at length will be kept as reserves. Manish Pandey also finds a place in the squad.
Among the six Champions Trophy greenhorns, three, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya man the five-strong fast-bowling department - "strong", for the first time, in the real sense of the word.
Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey pipped young chinaman Kuldeep Yadav as the 15th member of the touring party. The off-spinner played a crucial role in helping India win the Champions Trophy in 2013.
The selectors went with the proven performers and did not give weightage to the performances in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League. "I am talking about all these years when I played one-dayers", ESPNcricinfo quoted Harbhajan as saying on the eve of Mumbai Indians" game against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
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This time, Celtic are five games away from invincibility in a 38-match season, an achievement of an altogether different stripe. Wallace then went on to add that his best game at Rangers was also the 3-2 win over Celtic in the Old Firm derby in March 2012.
India are scheduled to play two warm-ups matches against Bangladesh and New Zealand. The fans have a lot of expectations from him and we are sure that Rohit Sharma will definitely score big in the ICC Champions Trophy, 2017.
A fully fit Rohit Sharma and Shami has booked their spots in Indian side, Mumbai Indian skipper has not played ODI cricket since October a year ago while Shami is back in squad since WC 2015. Many a comeback has been made based on IPL.
Shikhar Dhawan: Shikhar Dhawan's inclusion in the 15 member squad was quite surprising.
Chahal has also picked 6 wickets from the 3 ODIs that he's played for India. He is the second leading run scorer with 450 runs from 12 matches (as on May 8, 2017). But as of now I want to focus on the IPL and then switch to the preparations for the Champions Trophy.
Even as statement described the decision as "unanimous", ex ICC and BCCI chief N Srinivasan, who was part of the meeting through video conferencing, is learnt to have caled for a more hawkish line against the intenational body, an Indian Express report said. He is passionate about wildlife and landscape photography.
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