India's squad for ICC World twenty20 2009

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The defending champions, India have announced its 15-men squad for the ICC world twenty20 2009 to be held in England in June. Fast bowler RP Singh who is showing brillant performance in IPL 2009 for Deccan Chargers has been recalled. Meanwhile, Munaf Patel and Dinesh Karthik has been ruled out though they were included earlier.


Indian team will be under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sehwag will be their vice captain. Jadeja, a youngster has been taken in the team. There are no name of senior players like Tendulkar and Dravid.

India's 15-men squad for ICC world twenty20 2009 in England:

MS Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir,Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Jadeja, Ojha, Irfan Pathan.

Dispute between Dhoni and selectors regarding RP Singh's omission

Dispute has arose between Indian captain MS Dhoni and the selectors regarding the selection of Indian team for the next two one-dayers against England. There has been two changes in the team. Sachin Tendulkar is brought back in place of and Irfan Pathan has replaced RP Singh. There is no conflict for the first change but Dhoni and selectors had some dispute regarding RP Singh. Dhoni is in support of RP and wants him in team while the selectors want to replace him with Irfan Pathan.

The conflict took such a mode that Dhoni even threatened to resign from his captaincy. Though, either side refused all this, the media is continuously broadcasting it saying this is the truth. When asked with Dhoni, he said that he was not the authorized man to disclose the meeting. Either BCCI or the selectors should speak.

So, even after 3 wins in a row, there is a great conflict regarding the team selection.