Irfan Pathan ignored by Selectors yet again
This year, for the third edition of the tournament to be played in West Indies in April-May, the All-rounder Irfan Pathan, who acquired the Man-of-the-Match award in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 Championship against Pakistan in South Africa, gets no place in the list of 30 players.
The list, however, contains names like Naman Ojha (Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper-batsman), Manish Pandey (Karnataka middle-order batsman), the Karnataka pace duo of R Vinay Kumar and Abhimanyu Mithun, and Munaf Patel among others.
PROBABLES: V Sehwag, G Gambhir, D Karthik, MS Dhoni, Y Singh, S Raina, Y Pathan, R Jadeja, H Singh, Z Khan, P Kumar, S Sreesanth, S Tyagi, R Sharma, A Nehra, I Sharma, A Nayar. W Saha, N Ojha, P Chawla, A Mithun, M Pandey, RP Singh, M Patel,
M Vijay, R Vinay Kumar, A Mishra, P Ojha, V Kohli, R Ashwin.