Saturday, September 19, 2009

INDIA LEAVES FOR SA .........


The Indian cricket team on Friday left to participate in the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in South Africa from September 22.

The team left by the Dubai-bound flight from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport here and will take a connecting flight from Dubai to Johannesburg. The tournament is scheduled to take place from September 22 to October 5. India was the joint winner along with host Sri Lanka in 2002. The team will play a warm-up match against New Zealand on Septeber 20.

Placed in Group A along with Australia, Pakistan and the West Indies, India will open its league engagements on September 26 against Pakistan.

The squad: Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Suresh Raina, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R.P.Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amith Mishra, Dinesh Karthik. Coach: Gary Kirsten. — PTI

No comments:

Post a Comment