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Home > Cricket > England's tour of India > Report


Sehwag, Kaif dropped

April 15, 2006 09:22 IST

Scorecard

India won the toss and elected to field in the seventh and final One-Day International against England at Indore on Saturday.

As expected, the home side omitted the out-of-form Virender Sehwag and Mohammad Kaif along with Munaf Patel and Harbhajan Singh.

Ramesh Powar is the lone regular spinner in the side, which has four medium pacers in Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, R P Singh and V R V Singh.

England, who won the sixth ODI in Jamshedpur by five wickets, rested Andrew Flintoff for the second successive match. The team will be led Andrew Strauss.

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa, Venugopal Rao, Dinesh Karthick, Ramesh Powar, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Rudra Pratap Singh, Vikram Singh.

England: Andrew Strauss (capt), Matthew Prior, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Geriant Jones, Ian Bell, Ian Blackwell, Liam Plunkett, Kabir Ali, James Anderson, Sajid Mahmood


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Number of User Comments: 4




Sub: Good decision

Drop of Kaif and Sehwag in the 7th ODI is very good dicision. To lead the Indian team with win over strong team. This kind ...


Posted by Shankarao





Sub: kiran more have to learn more

with the experience of playing a few international game to become a chiefselector is like becoming a chief judge of supreme court with a few ...


Posted by ASRUJIT GHOSH





Sub: Welcome for dropping Kaif and Sehwag

It is good to drop worst perfomers Kaif and Sehwag. But inclusion of extremely worst players by mad selectors is an another unfortunate decision. The ...


Posted by Kamal Kant Mishra





Sub: M S Dhoni

Where is dhoni... rediff hasn't said anything about him.....sehwag and kaif need to rectify their problems.Kapildev's theory is good.


Posted by ajay




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