The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the India team for the ICC World Cup in Mumbai on Monday. K.L. Rahul, Vijay Shankar and Dinesh Karthik has found place among the 15-member squad, while wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, who is in prolific form and being hailed as Dhoni's successor, was not selected for the Indian world cup team.
While 11 of the team members were more or less no guesses, the selectors daunting task was to select a batsmen who could fit in the No.4 choice and India's second wicket-keeper.
Team:
Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vive-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Vijay Shankar, M.S. Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami
