<p>Vinay Kumar, who has been in superb form in the ongoing Indian Premier League, was the only new face in the squad to be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.<br />The BCCI senior selection panel under the chairmanship of Krishnamachari Srikkanth met here today to pick the squad.<br /><br />Pacers Ishant Sharma, S Sreesanth and RP Singh, who were in the provisional 30-member list, failed to figure in the sqaud while spinners Pragyan Ojha and Amit Mishra also missed the bus.<br /><br />Delhi batsman Virat Kohli, who was in the ODI squad against South Africa last month, was also left out, according to a BCCI release.The squad has four specialist batsmen in vice-captain Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir, three all-rounders in Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja, who had appealed against his Indian Premier League ban.<br /><br />Besides Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar were the pacers in the squad while Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla will shoulder the spin bowling duties. Dhoni will have a back-up wicket-keeper in Dinesh Karthik.<br /><br />Zaheer and Harbhajan were making a return after missing India's last Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka in December last.<br /><br />Others who were dropped from the 30-member provisional list announced earlier for the April 30-May 16 mega-event were Sudeep Tyagi, Abhishek Nayar, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, Abhimanyu Mithun, Manish Pandey, Munaf Patel, Murali Vijay and Ravichandran Ashwin. <br /><br />The Squad:<br />Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (v-c), Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, R Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Dinesh Karthik.</p>
<p>Vinay Kumar, who has been in superb form in the ongoing Indian Premier League, was the only new face in the squad to be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.<br />The BCCI senior selection panel under the chairmanship of Krishnamachari Srikkanth met here today to pick the squad.<br /><br />Pacers Ishant Sharma, S Sreesanth and RP Singh, who were in the provisional 30-member list, failed to figure in the sqaud while spinners Pragyan Ojha and Amit Mishra also missed the bus.<br /><br />Delhi batsman Virat Kohli, who was in the ODI squad against South Africa last month, was also left out, according to a BCCI release.The squad has four specialist batsmen in vice-captain Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir, three all-rounders in Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja, who had appealed against his Indian Premier League ban.<br /><br />Besides Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar were the pacers in the squad while Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla will shoulder the spin bowling duties. Dhoni will have a back-up wicket-keeper in Dinesh Karthik.<br /><br />Zaheer and Harbhajan were making a return after missing India's last Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka in December last.<br /><br />Others who were dropped from the 30-member provisional list announced earlier for the April 30-May 16 mega-event were Sudeep Tyagi, Abhishek Nayar, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, Abhimanyu Mithun, Manish Pandey, Munaf Patel, Murali Vijay and Ravichandran Ashwin. <br /><br />The Squad:<br />Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (v-c), Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, R Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Dinesh Karthik.</p>
