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Mumbai, July 20: Sachin Tendulkar today returned to India's one-day squad after a long injury layoff while all-rounder Dinesh Mongia earned a surprise recall for the upcoming cricket tri-series in Sri Lanka.
Tendulkar, out of action for close to four months following a shoulder surgery, expectedly found his way back into the 15-member team after being declared fit two days back.
Punjab all-rounder Mongia was rewarded for his fine show in English county with a berth in the squad announced by Cricket Board secretary Niranjan Shah after a one-and-a-half-hour meeting of the five-member selection panel here.
Opener Robin Uthappa and middle-order batsman Venugopala Rao were left out of the squad that recently lost a one-day series to the West Indies 4-1.
The national selectors also chose to ignore veteran leg spinner Anil Kumble who has been out of the Indian one-day team for long but was widely speculated to stage a comeback after emerging as the highest wicket-taker in the Tests in the Caribbean with 23 scalps.
However, Chief Selector Kiran More said that the selectors had a "right plan" in mind for the experienced spinner to make a comeback to the shorter version of the game.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, currently testing himself out for Northamptonshire in English county, continued to find himself out of
favour.
Left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan, also seeking to make his way back into the team through the county route, was ignored despite a decent performance for Worcestershire. More said Mongia was preferred ahead of Zaheer as the team needed a variety in the spin department.
Team: Rahul Dravid (capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mohd Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia, M S Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, R P Singh, Munaf Patel, Harbhajan Singh and Ramesh Powar. (Agencies)
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