India have dropped Virender Sehwag for the first three matches of the five-ODI series against England, which begins on January 11 in Rajkot. This was a double-blow for Sehwag, who was left out of the XI that beat Pakistan in an ODI earlier in the day. India gave a maiden limited-overs call-up to Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored an aggressive 203 off 221 balls in a Ranji Trophy match last week.
This was the only change to the squad that lost 2-1 to Pakistan, which means MS Dhoni, India's best batsman in the series, kept his captaincy despite calls from former selectors for fresh leadership.
Rohit Sharma was retained despite poor returns in ODIs of late. His last six scores in ODIs have been 5, 0, 0, 4, 4 and 4. Since the end of the series against West Indies in 2011, where he was the Man of the Series, Rohit has averaged 13 over 14 matches with one half-century.
Squad: MS Dhoni (capt.), Cheteshwar Pujara, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shami Ahmed, Amit Mishra
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