India's depleted squad for the tour of West Indies has suffered blow with Yuvraj Singh, the Player of the Tournament in the 2011 World Cup, missing the entire tour because of a lung infection. Gautam Gambhir, who was supposed to captain India in the ODIs, has also been ruled out because of a shoulder injury he sustained in the World Cup final and aggravated during the IPL. Sachin Tendulkar has requested that he be rested from the entire tour as well.
Suresh Raina has been appointed captain for the one-dayers and the Twenty20 international. Shikhar Dhawan and Manoj Tiwary have replaced Yuvraj and Gambhir in the limited-overs squad.
India are already missing Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag and Ashish Nehra, who are either injured or resting after the IPL and ahead of the Test series.
Test squad: MS Dhoni (capt), VVS Laxman (vc), M Vijay, Abhinav Mukund, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, S Badrinath, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel.
Limited-overs squad: Suresh Raina (capt), R Ashwin, S Badrinath, Harbhajan Singh (vc), Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Parthiv Patel (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan.
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