Team India leaves for Champions Trophy in South Africa, India Team Photos

Team India gear up for a tough competition in the Champions Trophy in South Africa. Placed in the same group as that of Australia, Pakistan & West Indies, team India will have to go all guns blazing in every department of the game.

Pictures of Indian team at Mumbai Airport preparing for their departure to South Africa.

The maestro Sachin Tendulkar arrives at th mumbai airport and greeted by flashing cameras. the little master will be the most watched cricketer in this Champions Trophy

Youth power! Suresh Raina, Amit Mishra & Yusuf Pathan - a lot depends on this trio

Rahul Dravid is all excited to display his mettle in the Champions Trophy

MS Dhoni is led by security personnel at the Mumbai Airport, as team India prepare to leave for South Africa

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Team India reaches Sri Lanka for the Compaq Cup, Tri nation ODI Series, Indian Team Practise Photos

Team India reached Sri Lanka at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday afternoon to participate in the Compaq Cup the tri nation series in Sri Lanka. The 15 member team lead by MS Dhoni is keen to get the trophy home and climb up the ladder in the ODI rankings. The team got delayed as the stipulated carrier Jet Airways pilots went on a nation wide strike and thus Air India had to fly a special flight picking up few of the players from Bangalore who played for Air India team in the recently concluded BCCI Corporate trophy.

The team immediately jumps into practice session for some much required practice.

Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, coach Garl Kirsten lead the team for practise sessions

Captain Cool MSD - trying his hand on the bat, they have a net session as they land in Sri Lanka

Dhoni looks relaxed and confident

M S Dhoni is greeted at the Sri Lanka airport

Gambhir is the only reckoned opener in the squad, as his partner Sehwag is ruled out with injury for this Compaq Cup

Ishant had a poor form off late. He is concerned about his performance. He is lucky to be around

RP Singh tugging his luggage, waiting to swing the ball

Yuvraj Singh all set to roar at the Compaq cup

Sachin Tendulkar at the Chennai Airport

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Virendra Sehwag not interested in captaining India

Viru who is least interested in the captaincy has a strong desire to play well for the country and score more and more runs and not get bogged down by the vice captaincy or captaincy issue. He has requested the selectors to remove him from the VC position and groom some new face for a longer run. He spoke to a news channel yesterday saying: "I don't want to be a captain, I have already told the selectors about it. I have said that a new player should be made vice-captain and be groomed to be a captain," he also said "I want that I should continue to score runs and keep winning matches for the team."

Sehwag was given the vice captaincy position when Rahul Dravid took over as Captain from Saurav Ganguly.

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Sachin Tendulkar says Sehwag comes closest to his style of batting | Sachin aims for 15K runs in Test

Excerpts of an interview given by Sachin Tendulkar to Wisden Cricketer reveals that Sachin has a desire to reach 15,000 runs in Test cricket as Sunil Gavaskar requested him to do so and also would be unhappy if he didn’t manage to get the runs to reach that landmark. Excerpts also reveals that he is not very pleased with the comments by John Buchanan about Sachin unable to handle the short deliveries, and justified himself by saying that John need not be correct always, and he needs to correct himself in saying so as if he (Sachin) has problems facing the short pitch deliveries than why has he been scoring heavily against the top bowlers in world cricket.

He also mentioned in his interview that Sehwag is the closest one who has reached to his caliber in terms of batting style.

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India Vs West Indies– Live Cricket Scores of IND v WIND - Super 8 Group E T20 World Cup

In the 16th match of Super 8 Group E T20 World Cup 2009, Champions, India is going to have a real challenge against West Indies today at Lord's, London starting from 4:30 GMT, 10.00 PM IST in their super eight league

The defending champions India did not have much of a difficulty till now in the tournament. So it wont be a easy walk in the park for India beating tough competitors like West Indies who have earlier defeated Australia in the opening game before losing out to Sri Lanka by 15 runs in their last match. The strength of Indian batting lineup is their middle order including Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as well as two all rounders Yousuf Pathan and Irfan Pathan. Pragyan Ojha who is the leading wicket taker is doing a pretty good job in the spin department.

West Indies got an excellent opener in Andre Fletcher. The hard hitter Captain Chris Gayle is the only batsman who has a century in twenty20 international played a terrific inning against Australia. All-rounder Dwayne Bravo played very well against Sri Lanka. West Indies has a balanced team with hard hitting batsmen and quality pacers like Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards and Lendl Simmons who took four wickets against Sri Lanka giving only 19 runs in 3 overs.

India Playing 11 for Today Match

MS Dhoni(C/W), G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh

West Indies Playing 11 for Today Match

Chris Gayle (C), Ramnaresh Sarwan, David Bernard, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Xavier Marshall, Denesh Ramdin (W), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Jerome Taylor

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India Vs Ireland – ICCT20 World Cup 2009 12th Match

In the 12th match of ICC T20 World Cup 2009, The defending champion India will play against Ireland today at Trent Bridge, Nottingham starting from 4:30 GMT, 10.00 PM IST. This match will not have any impact for both the teams because they already have ensured their place in Super Eight round after beating Bangladesh.

India will have to play the whole T20 world tournament without Virender Sehwag who has been left out due to shoulder injury. Gautam Gambhir will play with new opener Rohit Sharma who well played in warm up match and against Bangladesh.

Ireland won against Bangladesh by 6 wickets. Two Irish brothers Niall O'Brien and Kevin O'Brien will have important role to lead their country. Ireland players improved themselves in all the span of cricket. In 2007 Cricket World Cup they have beaten Pakistan.

India Playing 11 for Today Match

MS Dhoni(C/W), G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh

Ireland Playing 11 for Today Match

William Porterfield (C), Jeremy Bray, Paul Stirling, Andre Botha, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (W), Trent Johnston, Kyle McCallan, Regan West, Peter Connell, Boyd Rankin.

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India Team for T20 World Cup, Squad of India for 20 20 WC

Find the complete player list of India Team for 2009 Twenty20 World Cup in England.

India T20 Squad:

MS Dhoni (Cap/wk)
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh
Yusuf Pathan
Rohit Sharma
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Praveen Kumar
Ravindra Jadeja
Pragyan Ojha
Irfan Pathan
RP Singh

Indian Team pose before leaving for T20 World in England:

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