Tendulkar opts out of Sri Lanka tour

Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) India's batting great Sachin Tendulkar has opted out while Ravindra Jadeha, Praveen Kumar and the Pathan brothers Irfan and Yusuf missed out on the 15-member squad for the five ODIs and a Twenty20 international in Sri Lanka in July-August.

The squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virat Kohli (vice captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ashok Dinda, Vinay Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwari, Rahul Sharma