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Can these 15 players bring the World Cup home?

Last updated on: January 17, 2011 14:10 IST

The big-hitting Yusuf Pathan was picked ahead of Rohit Sharma as the five-member selection panel, headed by Krishnamachari Srikkanth, named the Indian squad for the 2011 World Cup, which will be held in the subcontinent from February 19,?in Chennai on Monday.

Piyush Chawla and R Ashwin also found favour with?the selectors, while the rest of the squad has?more or less the same names who?represented India consistently over the last one-and-a-half to two years.

What do you think about the selection? Is?this team?capable of repeating the historic 1983 victory? Can these 15?bring the World Cup home?

The team: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla.

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