Bangalore: Dhoni’s hamstring injury has ruled him out of the series and Ambati Rayudu will join the Indian squad for the remainder of the Celkon Mobile tri-series in the West Indies.
Dhoni is not feeling good. He is going to be examined. He has a hamstring issue,” a source in the BCCI had said earlier in the day and The All-India Senior Selection Committee has picked Ambati Rayudu as his replacement in the squad. Rayudu will join the team at the earliest. India plays with Sri Lanka in the second match of the series, on Tuesday. Indian skipper MS Dhoni has been ruled out of the reminder due to a hamstring injury.
Dhoni suffered the injury while batting in the game against West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica on Sunday (June 30). He received treatment when batting on 20 in the 43rd over and though he went on to scores a 35-ball 27, Dhoni didn’t come out when India fielded.
“Rayudu will join the team at the earliest,” said a Board of Control for Cricket in India statement, and is expected to join the squad in Port of Spain for India’s last two league games and, if they qualify, the final. Rayudu, who was earlier named in the Twenty20 International squad for India’s series against England at home in December last year, made his first-class debut in the 2001-02 season and was the captain of India at the Under-19 World Cup in 2004.
India had earlier named an unchanged squad for the tri-series from the one that took part in the victorious Champions Trophy campaign last month. Since then, however, Mohammad Shami has replaced Irfan Pathan after Pathan also pulled out because of a hamstring injury.
Bureau Report
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