News Harbhajan earns Test recall, Jadeja dropped; no senior rested for Bangladesh

[Deepu]

Harbhajan Singh's burning desire to win his India jersey back was answered in the affirmative on Wednesday as the BCCI selectors picked the veteran offspinner for the one-off Test during the Bangladesh tour.

Harbhajan has had a successful IPL 8 for Mumbai Indians, picking up 16 wickets and leading them to the final of the tournament.

Squads:

Test: Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant Sharma

ODI: MSD (C), Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Stuart Binny, Dhawal Kulkarni

Harbhajan earns Test recall, Jadeja dropped; no senior rested for Bangladesh - IBNLive

 

[Devesh]

No more Yuvraj

 

[Akash Modi]

Yes no more yuvraj

 

[Vadirocks]

Looks Like Pakistan Effect Alerting India

 

[Sanjeev]

How silly the selectors are they have taken Harbhajan on his performance in IPL and that too in tests and not in ODIs

 

[Devesh]

How silly the selectors are they have taken Harbhajan on his performance in IPL and that too in tests and not in ODIs

Agree he shud not be in team bcoz his performance was average in Ranji season...

 

[scorpionking76]

Bhaji deserves a chance

 

[Devesh]

I think Amit mishra deserve a chance more than bhaji...

 

[san'D'eep]

How silly the selectors are they have taken Harbhajan on his performance in IPL and that too in tests and not in ODIs

His experience counts..BD have more lefty batsman than righty..Meanwhile they tried jaddu, ojha... Jaddu doesnt seems to be a test matl. & ojha is not much effective with new action..

 

[san'D'eep]

I think Amit mishra deserve a chance more than bhaji...

Karn sharma is there as leggie..Seems to be a Captains choice..