India's World Cup probables to be picked today

December 04, 2014 10:08

The preliminary list of 30 Indian probables for the upcoming World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is to be finalised in Mumbai today by the national selectors, who may include a few proven but currently out-of-form cricketers.

The meeting of the five-member selection panel headed by Sandeep Patil is scheduled for 1 pm, Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Sanjay Patel said.

Among the proven performers, who are currently not in top form but were members of the victorious 2011 squad, are Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra.

Yuvraj, who won the Player of the Tournament award in the 2011 World Cup, has been woeful with the bat recently. So it would be interesting to see if the selectors feel he is still good enough to be included in the preliminary list before it is pruned down by January 7th and sent to the ICC ahead of the February 14-March 29 mega event.

Otherwise, the selectors are expected to retain the 14 names that they selected for the last two home ODIs against Sri Lanka along with players who were rested -- M S Dhoni, Ishant Sharma, Varun Aaron, Mohd Shami, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan and R Jadeja.

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