Dirty politics to keep Sehwag and Yuvi omitted from 2015 WC probables
Four veterans -- Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh – were omitted from India's World Cup 30-member probables list which includes young spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav. Another seasoned cricketer Gautam Gambhir has also been left out with the selectors reposing faith on the young guns to retain the title in Australia and New Zealand. The decision to ignore the veteran players, who were a part of the 2011 World Cup winning team along with Sehwag, Yuvraj and Gambhir, has put a question mark on their future given that none of the five have featured in an ODI for the last one year. Apart from the famed five, pacers Ashish Nehra and Munaf Patel, spinner Piyush Chawla and all-rounder Yusuf Pathan were also among the players axed from the list announced by BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patel after a meeting of the selection committee in Mumbai on Thursday. Apart from Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, Jammu and Kashmir all-rounder Par...