ICC Champions Trophy: BCCI announces 15-man squad; no place for Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday reported the 15-man squad for up and coming ICC Champions Trophy to be held in England. The selectors did not pull off an excessive number of astonishments and held the vast majority of the players who played the constrained overs arrangement against England in January this year.
Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh were three senior Indian players who neglected to discover put in the squad regardless of a decent show in the progressing period of Indian Premier League (IPL).
Here is India's 15-man squad:
Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, MS Dhoni (wk), Yuvraj Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Manish Pandey
The Indian board declared the squad through its official Twitter account:
India is right now the protecting champions. They crushed England in the 2013 version.
Subsequent to postponing the declaration because of a continuous quarrel with International Cricket Council over an income sharing model, the board individuals at long last arrived at a conclusion.
There were gossipy tidbits that a couple of individuals from the board for hauling out of the prestigious competition after the BCCI was squashed 1-13 at the ICC Board meeting as of late where the proposed income model was advanced for a story test.
This was after BCCI's share from ICC income was lessened from USD 570 million to USD 293 million.
At first, BCCI was offered an extra USD 100 million by Manohar - an offer which India rejected.
In any case, the ICC's offer still stands as it is prepared to pay the extra USD 100 million. Manohar has obviously revealed to BCCI authorities in Dubai that if their general body is an amusement for an extra USD 100 million, he would then get it sanctioned in an executive meeting not long from now.
The BCCI purposely missed the April 25 due to date for an accommodation of the squad in the wake of ICC proposing another money related model which lessens BCCI's incomes from USD 570 million to USD 293 million.