Sandeep Patil headed five-member selection committee selected limited over teams for five matches ODI series and three matches Twenty20 series in Australia. The series will start on January 12. Suresh Raina has been dropped from the ODI as Manish Pandey replaced him. Four new faces were rewarded for their domestic performance while old folks like Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra recalled for the T20 series keeping Asia Cup and World T20 in mind.
Twitter reacted to a progressive and balanced teams selections
Indian Cricket Team’s warrior @YUVSTRONG12 is finally back in d team after a long time.SO happy.Overwhelmed by the news.Pls make most of it
— Dewang Ganatra (@RetardedHurt) December 19, 2015
First ever cricket player from Himachal Pradesh who has been selected for Indian Cricket Team : Rishi Dhawan … Congrats all 🙂
— Abhishek Sharma (@abhisharma000) December 19, 2015
“MAN of BATTLE” enters the Indian team. #YuvrajSingh pic.twitter.com/bdFW3FjS1s
— Priya Shankar (@priya_bvniskr) December 19, 2015
Yuvraj Singh back= Cake Stuart Binny dropped=Cherry on the cake #YuvrajSinghIsBack #Yuvi #YuvrajSingh RT if you are Happy too.
— Kirti Dixit (@iamkirtidixit) December 19, 2015
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttt maaakkiii !!!! #YuvrajSingh pic.twitter.com/DeYlVlOzdD
— Harvey Specter (@PrinceeMahesh) December 19, 2015
#YuvrajSingh #Dhoni #Yuvi back in Indian T20 team #SinghIsKing pic.twitter.com/QZXnNVGca1
— Arjun (@Always_Arjun) December 19, 2015
Mera Hero waapas aagaya waapas aagaya #YuvrajSingh #EnjoyBiggBossWithSalman pic.twitter.com/JCOM0vCnLO
— Prince (@SalmanInspires) December 19, 2015
That’s what hardwork does…. #YuvrajSingh @YUVSTRONG12 !!!!
— Siva Suganeswaran (@Siva_the_ROYAL) December 19, 2015
clearly suresh raina’s shortcomings against the short ball, that were visible against south africa, have become too glaring to ignore
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) December 19, 2015
No Suresh Raina in ODI is a big call…slightly unexpected too. With Dhoni’s insistence to bat higher in the order, he becomes critical.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) December 19, 2015