Yuvraj Singh Dropped From Test Series Against Australia

New Delhi: Indian selectors have dropped Yuvraj Singh from the Test series against Australia starting from October 1 in Mohali.

The southpaw has been replaced by Saurashtra right-hander Cheteshwar Pujara.

Both Zaheer and Sreesnath made comebacks from injury, along with Harbhajan Singh and Gautam Gambhir. All four missed India's series-levelling win at the P Sara Oval last month. Zaheer and Harbhajan were part of Mumbai Indians' unsuccessful campaign in the Champions League T20 in South Africa.

Comebacks for Gambhir and Sreesanth started in the Corporate Trophy, and continue into the three-day game between the Board President's XI and the Australians, starting September 25 in Chandigarh.

However, Yuvraj will lead the rest of India team against the Ranji champions Mumbai.

Test Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virendra Sahwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Amit Misra, Pragyan Ojha, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Raina, Sresanth, Murali Vijay.

Rest of India: squad Yuvraj Singh (capt), Abhinav Mukund, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, 5 S Badrinath, 6 Saurabh Tiwary, Parthiv Patel (wk), Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav, R Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun and Ravindra Jadeja.

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