The Indian selectors on Saturday excluded Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir from India's 15-man Champions Trophy squad.
The All-India Senior Selection Committee met at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai, where it recalled Shikhar Dhawan to the squad in place of Gambhir who was part of the team for the home series against Pakistan.
Yuvraj too featured in the series against Pakistan and did fairly well but was still left out.
Here are Twitter reactions to Yuvraj and Gambhir's exclusion:...
more
03:06 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Sandip Patil-led BCCI selection committee on Saturday awarded medium pacer Vinay Kumar and wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik for their good show in IPL 6 with a call-up to India's ODI squad for the Champions Trophy in England next month. However, veteran opener Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh didn't find a place in the 15-member touring party. The All-India Senior Selection Committee met at the Cricket Centre in...
12:59 PM, May 04, 2013
Mumbai: The final Indian squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, to be held in June in England and Wales, is to be picked by the national selectors here on May 4, the Cricket Board announced on Monday. The five-man selection panel headed by Sandeep Patil will prune the list of 30 probables already selected to half its size for the June 6-23 tournament. The selectors had dropped senior players Virender...
04:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: There may be embarrassment for the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad in the 7/11 train serial blasts trial. The phone records of four alleged bombers have shown that they were not at the blast site when the bombs were planted. The ATS had arrested five alleged bomb planters in connection with the case and had claimed that they along with seven wanted Pakistani men had planted bombs at the Churchgate station...
01:18 PM, Apr 27, 2013
When you finish reading a book of a stature such as "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan, you sit down, breathe and keep breathing, till the breath paces itself out and you aren't gasping anymore. The effect of books has to be this way. It has to have the maddening reaction in a reader - the gasping, the constant thinking about the characters and more so how...
12:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Pakur: A team of Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday took the headmaster of a school in Pakur district on transit remand in connection with a fake currency case that was registered in Gujarat five years ago. Mohammad Zaheer-ud-din Ansari, the headmaster of Hitesh Nagar Upgraded Middle School in the district, was produced before the chief judicial magistrate by the ATS. The court granted the plea of the ATS to take...
12:29 AM, Apr 13, 2013
In a freak incident, a police officer in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) shot himself dead in front of his family at a restaurant in Thane on Saturday evening. The officer was dining out with his family when suddenly, he pulled out his service revolver and shot himself. The reason for his suicide is not clear. ...
07:00 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Sehwag has been dropped after scoring 27 runs in three innings against Australia, paving the way for one of Shikhar Dhawan or Ajinkya Rahane in the remaining two Tests. ...
12:44 PM, Mar 07, 2013
An unclaimed laptop bag found outside the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment area on Monday led to a security scare. The Delhi Police and bomb disposal squad reached the spot after getting the alert and found that the black laptop bag contained a device with circuits. ...
05:06 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Lawson said India's fate in the series, beginning Friday, would hinge on how young batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli perform. ...
01:31 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Harbhajan, who has 408 wickets in his bag in 99 Tests, is looking to join the select club of 100-Test players if he is picked in any match of the series. ...
07:35 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The Mumbai batsman was passed over in favour of Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay despite outscoring both in the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy season. ...
06:48 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina and Sreesanth are among those hoping for a Test recall for the series against Australia starting February 22. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 09, 2013
BCCI on Thursday included Mumbai allrounder Abhishek Nayar in the India A squad to take on Australia in a three-day warm-up game to be played in Chennai next month. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday arrested one more person on charges of aiding and abetting the 2012 Pune serial blasts. He will be produced in an Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court later on Monday. ...
03:40 PM, Jan 14, 2013
The very opening scene of Gangster Squad sets the tone for this brutally violent mobster movie - an unsympathetic mafioso rips his enemy in two by chaining him to cars pulling in opposite directions. That barbaric mob-boss is Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles' most feared gangster, played by Sean Penn in this 1949-set thriller inspired by real events and real people. ...
11:31 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Directed by Ruben Fleischer, 'Gangster Squad' features Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in the lead roles. ...
03:09 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Strengthening its presence along the Pakistan border, the Indian Air force is deploying a squadron of its latest Mi-17 V5 helicopters, comprising about 15 aircraft, in Phalodi air base near Jodhpur. IAF chief Air Marshal NAK Browne will induct the new helicopters on January 7, defence spokesperson Colonel SD Goswami said. ...
03:40 AM, Jan 01, 2013
A stress injury has ruled Balaji out of India's two Twenty20 internationals against England on Dec 20 and 22. ...
02:30 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Manoj Tiwary has been ruled out of the two-match series against England due to a side strain. ...
12:22 PM, Dec 11, 2012
