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India picked the 15-member squad for Twenty20 Cricket World Cup which would begin next month in West Indies.Gautam Gambhir and Ashish Nehra, who suffered injuries recently, were named in the squad to be led by MS Dhoni. Piyush Chawla and Vinay Kumar are the new faces in the otherwise tried and tested Indian squad. Impressive performers in IPL like Robin Uthappa of RCB, Saurabh Tiwary of MI and Murali Kartik of Kolkata Knight Riders were not part of the 30-strong list picked last month. India is in Group C with South Africa and qualifiers Afghanistan in the preliminary league phase of the 12-team event and their first match is against the Afghans on May 1. The Indian squad include: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Piyush Chawla, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Vinay Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan.
