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Delhi batsman Virat Kohli, who was part of the Indian squad for the ODI series against England late last year, was also dropped from the side.
BCCI joint secretary Sanjay Jagdale today announced the 15-member squad which has seven specialist batsmen in captain M S Dhoni, vice captain Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina.
The five ODIs and a Twenty20 match in Sri Lanka would also test the all-round ability of Jadeja and Yusuf Pathan.
In Harbhajan's absence, Hyderabad left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha will lead the spin department hoping to get adequate support from Jadeja at the other end.
The five-member pace attack looks quite formidable with Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma joined by Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan and Praveen Kumar.
"The Indian team will assemble in Chennai on January 25 and practice under lights at the M A Chidambaram Stadium. They would then depart for Sri Lanka the next day," Jagdale said.
Jadeja's inclusion is the reward for the stellar performance in the domestic cricket by the 20-year-old all-rounder, who bats in the lower middle order and bowls left-arm spin for Saurashtra.
Dambulla is scheduled to host the first two India-Sri Lanka ODIs on January 28 and 30, followed by three one dayers in Colombo on February 2,5 and 8.
The only Twenty20 match will take place in Colombo on February 10 after which the Indian team will return home and catch some rest before leaving for New Zealand.
Squad: M S Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Praveen Kumar.
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Arrorance of Srisanth should be taught lesson. He should be kept out from Team and Selectors should emphasize that there is no room for ugly actions on field and off field.
Srishant's omission should be a lesson to all youngsters.It was sheer unwanted arrogance
Ravindra Jadeja, my favourite, is in and the arrogant Sreekanth is out. Thank God. Sreekanth should be left out of our cricket team in future as well. He is such a nasty fellow who can only spoil the good name of TEAM INDIA.
Yes, u r right; but we 've give him a chiance. Don't forget india's good run in o'seas stared from south african soil that is too from sreesanth's fierrrrrry spell. And what about the two important wickets of Hayden n Gilcrist (Semifinal 20-20 world-cup). Can u say without that wickets india cud 've achieved that feet!!! Pls don't under estimate any player!!!!
since jadeja is a left arm spinner p ojha should not have been taken--why 2 left arm spinners? instead of ojha pijush chawla or amit mishra should have been chosen SREESANTH SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECALLED
There should not be kept any chance for coming back of Shreesanth. bcoz we r talking about cricket players not about goonadism. he is such a dirty nasty fellow who is a black mark for india team. i stronglr recommend the Indian Cricket council, not to select this guy for any plays in future, just wipe out his name from the list