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Chennai: Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar and explosive opener Virender Sehwag were rested while Tamil Nadu opener Murali Vijay and Karnataka speedster Abhimanyu Mithun were on Thursday included in the Indian squad for Saturday's third and final one-dayer against South Africa in Ahmedabad.
According to sources, the team management has decided to rest Tendulkar and test the bench strength in Ahmedabad, as India has already pocketed the three match series.
National selectors will meet here today (Thursday) to pick the Indian squad for third and final One-dayer against South Africa and also the probables for the 2011 cricket World Cup, a day after Tendulkar blasted his way into the record books by hitting the first ever double century in ODI's against the Proteas.
Tendulkar played an incredible and heart-stopping knock of 200 not out which came off just 147 balls, treating the capacity crowd at the Captain Roop Singh stadium, Gwalior to a stunning exhibition of strokeplay.
It was not only Tendulkar's 46th ODI century but it also marked the highest score in one-dayers, eclipsing the previous record of 194 which was held by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Conventry.
The little master was on fire and the South African bowlers bore the brunt as they were literally made to bleed runs at the small ground at Gwalior.
Tamil Nadu off-spinner R Ashwin, who is also a decent batsman, has been retained in the team along with Uttar Pradesh paceman Sudeep Tyagi. The two youngsters have not yet played a single match in the series and one of them could get a chance in Ahmedabad.
India will again miss the services of in-form opener Gautam Gambhir, hard-hitting middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, all of whom are recovering from injury.
India won the first one-dayer in Jaipur by just one run and then clinched the series with an emphatic 153-run victory in the second one-dayer in Gwalior which will be remembered for Tendulkar's stupendous unbeaten knock of 200.
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Sudeep Tyagi, S Sreesanth, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Abhimanyu Mithun and Ashish Nehra.
