MILLIONS OF Indian Cricket fans are praying for the team India to hold World Cup Cricket trophy after a long span of 28 years. India won last world cup tournament in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev. India had reached the final of 2003 World Cup in South Africa.
The young Indian team is playing good cricket since last few years under the captaincy of MS Dhoni and coach Gary Kirsten. Sachin Tendulkar, who is the only cricketer who has scored double hundred in ODIs, is playing his record sixth World Cup tournament.
Most of the big names, including Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, who are down with injuries, were named in the squad.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will lead the team while Sehwag will play in the role of deputy.
The selectors, who met for around 90 minutes in Chennai to finalize the team here, picked three specialist spinners, considering that the high profile-event will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and four steamers. Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla made the cut along with R Ashwin, with Harbhajan Singh leading the spin attack.
The team:
4) Gautam Gambhir
8) Yusuf Pathan
