World Cup squad to be picked on January 17

Mumbai, Jan 14 (PTI) The
final 15-member Indian
squad forthe forthcoming
ICC Cricket World Cup in the
sub continentwill be picked
by the national senior
selection panel onJanuary 17.

"The
selection
committee is to pick the
World Cup squadon the 17th
at Chennai," a Cricket Board
source told PTItoday.
The selection panel, with
Krishnamachari Srikkanth
atthe helm, has picked a
preliminary squad of thirty
members forthe mega event,
and the list would be pruned
to the requirednumber as
per ICC regulations for the
tournament.

The list of probables already
picked by the selectorsis as
follows: M S Dhoni, Virender
Sehwag, Sachin
Tendulkar,Gautam Gambhir,
Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh,
Suresh Raina,Harbhajan
Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish
Nehra, S Sreesanth,
MunafPatel, Ishant Sharma,
Vinay Kumar, M Vijay, Rohit
Sharma,Ravindra Jadeja,
Ajinkya Rahane, Sourav
Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan,Parthiv
Patel, R Ashwin, Wriddhiman
Saha, Dinesh Karthik,Shikhar
Dhawan, Amit Mishra, Piyush
Chawla, Cheteshwar
Pujara,Pragyan Ojha, Praveen
Kumar.

The World Cup is to be held
in India, Sri Lanka
andBangladesh from
February 19-April 2. India are
placed in GroupB in the
preliminary phase along with
co-hosts Bangladesh,England,
South Africa, West Indies,
Ireland and Netherlands.

India and Bangladesh will
kick off the tournament in
thelatter�s backyard � at
the Sher-E-Bangla National
Stadium inMirpur.