Gautam Gambhir will not tour the West Indies because of his injured shoulder, it was finally confirmed by the BCCI after Friday's selection committee meeting to choose the test team. But in an unfortunate development today, Yuvraj Singh has also opted out of the tour due to a respiratory infection.
Yuvraj has a small patch of pneumonitis on the left lung. Sachin Tendulkar, who had already opted out of the ODIs, will now miss the whole tour citing family commitments. With injuries Gambhir, Virender Sehwag with the subject of a shoulder operation, India will be without their two regular openers after a long time.
"Tendulkar will not play the Test series. However, he will be available for the full tour of England, that follows," said BCCI.
Suresh Raina will replace Gambhir as ODI captain. Manoj Tiwary and Shikhar Dhawan has been named the replacement batsmen. Harbhajan Singh will be Raina's deputy.
The selection meeting was attended also the new India coach Duncan Fletcher.
Test squad:
MS Dhoni (C/WK), VVS Laxman (VC), Murali Vijay, Abhinav Mukund, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Subramaniam Badrinath, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, S Sreesanth, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel (WK).
Limited-overs squad:
Suresh Raina (C), R Ashwin, S Badrinath, Harbhajan Singh (VC), Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Parthiv Patel (WK), Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan.
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