India v Sri Lanka v New Zealand Tri-Series Schedule, Timing

India, Sri lanka and New Zealand will play a short tri series just before Champions Trophy in September, 2009 in Sri Lanka. Each team will play one match with other and top two team will play the final of 4 match tournament.

Tri-Series Schedule:

1st Match
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand
Premadasa stadium, Colombo


2nd Match
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
India vs Sri Lanka
Premadasa stadium, Colombo


3rd Match
Saturday, 12th September, 2009
India vs New Zealand
Premadasa stadium, Colombo


Final
Monday, 14th September, 2009
Team 1 vs Team 2
Premadasa stadium, Colombo

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Dravid returns in ODI Squad for Tri Series and Champions Trophy

Indian selectors announced Indian ODI team for tri series in Sri Lanka and Champions trophy in September, 2009 and the highlight of the selection was return of "The wall" Rahul Dravid in one day team after a long time as played his last ODI in October, 2007.

Sachin Tendulkar also returns after rested for West Indies tour but hard hitter Virender Sehwag not picked as he not fully recovered from injury. Rohit Sharma is out of the team because of his poor form in T20 world cup and on West Indies tour.

Spinner Amit Mishra called in ODI team in place of Pragyan Ojha as a back up of Harbhajan Singh while Dinesh Karthik and Abhshek Nayar retained their place.

India ODI Team:

Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, RP Singh, Amit Mishra, Dinesh Karthik and Abhishek Nayar

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