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2011 Cricket World Cup squads
This is a list of the squads picked for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. The oldest player at the 2011 World Cup was John Davison (40) of Canada while the youngest was Nitish Kumar (16) also of Canada.
Group A
[edit]Australia
[edit]Coach: Tim Nielsen
1,2Callum Ferguson and Jason Krezja replaced Michael Hussey and Nathan Hauritz respectively, who were included in the original squad but pulled out due to injury.
3Michael Hussey later returned to the squad, replacing Doug Bollinger, who was ruled out with injury midway through the initial group stage.[2]
Canada
[edit]Coach: Pubudu Dassanayake
Kenya
[edit]Coach: Eldine Baptiste
New Zealand
[edit]Coach: John Wright
Pakistan
[edit]Coach: Waqar Younis
1Junaid Khan replaced Sohail Tanvir, who was originally selected before pulling out due to injury.
Sri Lanka
[edit]Coach: Trevor Bayliss
Muttiah Muralitharan and Angelo Mathews have forced the Sri Lankan•
India name 15-member squad for World Cup
Chennai: Leg spinner Piyush Chawla was the surprise inclusion while ung batsman Rohit Sharma and speedster S. Sreesanth were on Monday dropped from India’s 15-member squad for the upcoming cricket World Cup to be held in the sub-continent from 19 February.
Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who fryst vatten also a useful batsman, was also named in the squad announced bygd the BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan after a meeting of the selection committee here.
There were just a couple of spots up for grabs in the team and the selectors opted to include Chawla and Ashwin ahead of Pragyan Ojha in the squad which has as many as three expert spinners which came as a surprise.
India’s major concern ahead of the team urval was the injuries to four key players - Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and pacer Praveen Kumar - but the selectors decided to include them, expecting all four to be passform in time for the high-profile tourna