Irfan Pathan greeting Chief Minister Narendra Modi recently in Sadbhavana fast function at Vadodara

Ahmedabad, 15 January 2012

Vadodara’s Mr. Sporty, Irfan Pathan was today included in India’s 17-member squad for the next month’s tri-series in Australia. This is come back of not only of Irfan, but the city of Vadodara in Indian cricket team.

This was announced by BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale after a marathon meeting of the selection committee.

The Indians are scheduled to play two Twenty20 matches on February 1 and 2, followed by the tri-series, also involving Sri Lanka, from February 5.

ODI and T20 squad: M S Dhoni (C), Virender Sehwag (VC), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Unesh Yadav, Praveen Kumar, R Vinay Kumar, Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Sharma, Parthiv Patel, Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan.

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