Gurkeerat Mann, Sreenath Arvind make the cut
The selectors picked Gurkeerat Mann looking at his all round ability, said Sandeep Patil
By : abhishek baadkar
Update: 2015-09-21 01:30 GMT
Bengaluru: Following his remarkable run in the domestic arena and in the India ‘A’ series against Bangladesh ‘A’, uncapped allrounder Gurkeerat Mann made the cut in the India squad for the first three ODIs against South Africa while Karnataka pacer Sreenath Arvind broke into the T20I team, exactly four years after he was selected for the England ODI series in 2011.
In the team announced following a meeting on Sunday, lanky Punjab off-spinner Gurkeerat replaced allrounder Ravindra Jadeja while Arvind, 31 came in for Dhawal Kulkarni for the forthcoming Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela series, starting October 2 at Dharamsala.
Leg-spinner Amit Mishra was rewarded a place in the MS Dhoni-led side for both the formats with veteran Harbhajan Singh being axed from the ODIs and finding a place only in the T20 side.
Being on the selectors’ radar for the last two seasons, the 25-year-old Gurkeerat carried his incredible form from the tri-series final against Australia ‘A’ in August with a match-winning five-wicket haul and 65 in the first unofficial one-dayer against Bangladesh ‘A’ in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
“The selectors picked Gurkeerat Mann looking at his all round ability. We certainly want to develop not just one but if possible more all-rounders,” said the Sandeep Patil, the chairman of the selection committee.