NEW DELHI — India's selectors Saturday dropped opener Gautam Gambhir and all-rounder Yuvraj Singh for next month's Champions Trophy one-day tournament in England. The duo were part of the side that beat England 3-2 in a home one-day series in January, with Gambhir scoring just 127 runs and Yuvraj 126 in five one-dayers. Yuvraj, treated for a rare germ-cell cancer between his lungs in the US last year, was named man of the tournament in India's 50-over World Cup triumph in 2011. Gambhir has scored 5,238 runs in 147 one-dayers with 11 centuries, while Yuvraj has made 8,211 runs in 282 matches with 13 hundreds. India is drawn with South Africa, Pakistan and the West Indies in Group B of the Champions Trophy, from which the top two will qualify for the semifinals. The other group comprises England, Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Shikhar Dhawan, who played his last one-dayer against the West Indies in 2011, returned to bolster the batting. He is likely to open the innings with Murali Vijay, who also made a comeback. With the conditions in England expected to favour seam bowling, India named five fast bowlers — Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, and Vinay Kumar. India picked three spinners — Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Ravindra Jadeja — in the 15-man squad to be led by wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma are the other specialist batsmen. India are without experienced opener Virender Sehwag, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and seamer Zaheer Khan, who were not named in a 30-man preliminary squad last month. Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Vinay Kumar. Bopara gets Trophy recall Ravi Bopara's England exile came to an end Friday when the Essex all-rounder was named in the host's squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy and the preceding one-day series with New Zealand. Bopara has not played a 50-overs-a-side international since September and the stylish batsman and handy medium-pacer had not been selected in either of England one-day coach Ashley Giles' two previous squads in the format since the former Test spinner took charge of the limited overs side. It seemed Bopara was fighting for his international future but he edged out fellow all-rounders Samit Patel, Luke Wright and Rikki Clarke. Squad: Alastair Cook (captain), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (keeper), Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes. — Agencies
