Rising

Rahul Dravid was on Saturday dropped from the 15-member Indian one-day squad for the first two matches of the upcoming home cricket series against Pakistan.

Virender Sehwag, who had been on the sidelines for quite sometime, has been recalled into the team announced by the BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah after a meeting of the selection committee.

Uttar Pradesh paceman Praveen Kumar was the lone new face in the team which also sees the return of opener Gautam Gambhir in place of S Badrinath.

The team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, R P Singh, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth and Praveen Kumar.