Selectors to pick team India for World Cup Cricket 2011 today

THE CHAIRMAN of the national cricket selection committee, K Srikanth and the three other members of the committee have arrived Chennai to pick the final squad for the biggest cricketing event, ICC World Cup Cricket 2011. The national selectors will select the 15-member Team India out of 30 probables. BCCI announced a 30-man preliminary squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 on December 18.
According to ICC, all the participating nations will have to announce the final squad of 15 players by the 19th of January. The 43 days long Cricket World Cup is going to start from February 19 at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka between India and Bangladesh.
According to the sources, selectors will select eight to nine batsmen and one extra wicketkeeper. Mahendra Singh Dhoni will lead the Team India in the World Cup 2011. Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Virat Kohli are sure to get the berth in World Cup side.
As far as second wicketkeeper is concerned, the fight is between Parthiv Patel and Dinesh Karthik. Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, S Sreesanth, Praveen Kumar, R Vinay Kumar and Ishant Sharma will vie in the pace department. Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, R Ashwin and Piyush Chawla will contest in the spin department.