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India have a opportunity to go top of the ICC T20 International rankings if they win all four matches against England and Pakistan planned later in the month. India take part in England for two-match series starting here and then square off against customary rivals Pakistan also in a two-match series opening Dec 25 in Bangalore.

India is presently ranked third on the table with 120 ratings points. If India were to win all four matches, they will be push to the No.1 rank with a gain of 12 ratings points and in doing so will open up a 5 point lead over present top-ranked Sri Lanka.

Key Players :

India - Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir, R Ashwin

England - Eoin Morgan,Jonny Bairstow, Luke Wright

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Injured batsman Manoj Tiwary has been replaced by Ambati Rayudu in India squad for the T20s against England. Tiwary's injury was identifying as a side strain. He had selected up the injury, which will keep him out of action for six weeks, during a Ranji Trophy game, while batting in Bengal's first innings against Saurashtra.

Tiwary, who is currently skipper of Bengal in the Ranji Trophy, this is a next setback in quick succession he had undergo a wrist problem earlier in the term. When fit, he had shown some excellent form, scoring 191 against Gujarat, and also making 93 against England for the Board President's XI last month.

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England's strategy of rotating their squad will carry on in the T20 and ODI series against India. Graeme Swann has been absent from both squads while Steven Finn will only take part in the ODIs in January. Kevin Pietersen is back in England's ODI squad but he will also miss the T20s. Stuart Meaker could be in line for a T20 debut, in T20s squad. Jonny Bairstow, also in England Squad.

T20 squad   

Stuart Broad (c), Jonny Bairstow, Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, James Tredwell, Luke Wright

ODI squad

Alastair Cook (c), Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Kevin Pietersen, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, James Anderson (first three matches), Stuart Broad (final two matches)

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Crushing defeat for India in the second Test against England at Mumbai, national selectors continue with the same squad giving targeted star players one more chance to prove their worth in the third match starting December 5 in Kolkata. The selectors renounce from making major modify to the team barring the inclusion of paceman Ashok Dinda for an injured Umesh Yadav. Dinda had been called as a cover for Ishant Sharma in the first Test and Yadav in the second Test although he did not get to play.

The Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Cheteshwar Pujara, R Ashwin, Ashok Dinda, Pragyan Ojha, Ajinkya Rahane, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, M Vijay, Zaheer Khan.

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England pulled back to 1-1 in a four-Test series when they breezed to a ten-wicket success on the fourth morning of the Mumbai Test. It was a victory which will have roused England's self-belief in Asia and which brought into question India's entire move toward for the series of relying on turning tracks, leaving them with much to consider ahead of the third Test in Kolkata next week.

India's slow bowlers had been performed by their England complement, with Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann ultimate with 19 wickets in the match in favourable conditions they hardly ever experience. Panesar's match return was 11 for 210, Swann 8 for 113, but the Test had twisted on an attacking century from Kevin Pietersen.

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Indian spinner Pragyan Ojha, who stunned with a nine-wicket haul in the first Test against England, nine places to break into the top-five of the latest ICC rankings issued in Dubai. He recorded  9 wicket haul in the game India won by nine wickets in Ahmedabad to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

The other Indian in the top-20 are pace bowler Zaheer Khan Move up one place to 14th and Cheteshwar Pujara, who struck a doubled hundred in the Ahmedabad Test, has boost rapidly 35 places to the 24th position. England captain Alastair Cook, who scored a gutsy 176 in his side’s second innings, has returned to the top 10 by rising four places to seventh. Indian opener Virender Sehwag is now in 22nd position after gaining one place following his 23rd Test century.

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Yuvraj Singh has been named in the squad for the first two Tests against England, opening November 15. Harbhajan Singh was also recalled while Suresh Raina was dropped. Murali Vijay was included as the third individual opener in the squad of 15, with Ajinkya Rahane as a middle-order batsman. The first national selection meeting of the newly elected panel, headed by Sandeep Patil at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai, also is there by the captain Dhoni.

India squad for first two Tests

MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Cheteshwar Pujara, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Pragyan Ojha, Ajinkya Rahane, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, M Vijay, Zaheer Khan

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Fulfilled with the amenities and situation of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association stadium, the three-member English Cricket Board team has satisfactory the venue for the ODI between India and England planned to be held here on January 19, JSCA president Amitabh Choudhary said on Thursday. According to the tour schedule released by the BCCI, the third odi will be held here.

The ECB team comprised director of cricket operations John Carr, director of security Reg Dickason and Ian Smith gave final jiggle after state satisfaction over the infrastructure. From former Australia captain and member of the ICC David Boon, who visited the JSCA stadium on October 2, Choudhary said: "I must congratulate JSCA for the outstanding job done."

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Kevin Pietersen will almost surely return to the England team in the first Test against India in Ahmedabad, after the England Cricket Board ended his 67 days by finally and officially welcoming him back. Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket, confirmed after a board meeting that the team director, Andy Flower, had judged Pietersen's "process of reintegration" suitably successful for the batsman to be recalled for the tour of India.

Pietersen had flown to England from South Africa on Monday for talks with Flower, the new Test captain, Alastair Cook, and other key players and coaches the major part of the reintegration process announced by the ECB chairman, Giles Clark. The batsman returned to South Africa to rejoin the Delhi Daredevils in front of their next game in the Champions League Twenty20 on Friday.

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