Dravid out of first two ODI against Australia in 2009 series

Rahul Dravid, the only Indian other than Sachin Tendulkar to have scored 10,000 runs in both forms of the game, was omitted, at least from the first two games, from the Indian squad for the seven-match series against Australia commencing next week.

The National selection committee met here Thursday and announced a 15-member team, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the matches at Vadodara (Oct 25) and Nagpur (Oct 28). Dravid's omission ominously might mean he bid goodbye to his ODI career.

The squad does not contain any surprises, given Dhoni's well-known preferences. The decisions to drop Dravid and include the likes of untried 22-year old fast bowler Sudeep Tyagi at the expense of Rudra Pratap Singh and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for Yusuf Pathan, were to be expected

The squad for the first two matches: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel and Sudeep Tyagi.

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