India Squad For New Zealand Tour

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India Squad For New Zealand Tour Announced

Mumbai: India's Test squad for the New Zealand tour announced. M Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Lakshmipathy Balaji are included in the squad.

India will play a three-match Test series, five One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches in New Zealand.

The tour begins with a Twenty20 International in Christchurch on February 25 and another T20 match in Wellington two days later. The first ODI will be played in Napier on March 3.

Sachin Tendulkar has pulled out of the two Twenty20 matches as the star batsman has always preferred to stay away from the shortest format of the game.


Squads:

Test: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag (vc), Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Murali Vijay, Amit Mishra, L. Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dinesh Karthik.

ODI: MS Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag (vc), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar.

Twenty20: MS Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag (vc), Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha, Dinesh Karthik, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar.



SCHEDULE OF INDIA AND NEW ZEALAND SERIES
Date Team Place ODI/T20/Test

India and NewZealand AMI Stadium 1st T20 27-02-2009

Fri India and NewZealand Westpac Stadium 2nd T20 03-03-2009

Tue India and NewZealand McLean Park,Napier 1st ODI 06-03-2009

Fri India and NewZealand Westpac Stadium,Wellington 2nd ODI 11-03-2009

Wed India and NewZealand Seddon Park,Hamilton 3rd ODI 14-03-2009

Sat India and NewZealand Eden Park,Auckland 4th ODI 18-03-2009 Wed 22-03-2099

SunIndia and NewZealand Seddon Park,Hamilton 1st Test 26-003-2009 Thu 30-03-2009

MonIndia and NewZealand McLean Park,Napier 2nd Test 03-04-2009 Fri 07-04-2009

India and NewZealand Basin Reserve 3rd Test