Left-arm pacer R P Singh will be out of action for three weeks because of a torn hamstring and miss the tri-series involving India, Australia and Sri Lanka.
The BCCI is not happy with his decision to skip the Ranji Trophy match between Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The pacer argued with match referee B Raghunath after he was not allowed to have a look at the wicket before the start of the Challenger Trophy match.
Paceman Munaf Patel's devastating five-wicket haul propelled Rest of India to a nine-wicket win over Ranji champions Mumbai on the penultimate day of the match.
Paceman Shantakumaran Sreesanth has also been left out of the 12 as he is unwell.
India made one change in the team by bringing in Ajit Agarkar in place paceman Munaf Patel.
India's bowling coach feels the fast bowler is not doing his job with enough intensity.
India rested key players Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan besides leaving out Rohit Sharma.
India bolstered their bowling attack for the third Test against South Africa by including Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel.
Superb bowling by Munaf Patel, Ajit Agarkar and Siddharth Trivedi helped West Zone defeat South Zone by 26 runs in the Deodhar Trophy Cricket match in Bangalore on Wednesday.
A solid 78 by Rohit Sharma helped West Zone defeat North Zone by 120 runs in the Deodhar Trophy match in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
India made one change, bringing in leg-spinner Piyush Chawla in place of Munaf Patel for the first of the best of three finals.
India made two changes to the side that lost to Australia by 18 runs in Sydney on Sunday, Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel replacing Virender Sehwag and Shantha Sreesanth for the 11 ODI of the series.
The England tour is going to be a learning experience for the gangling young quickie from Delhi.
A livid Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday lashed out at Indian seamer Munaf Patel for his lackadaisical attitude on the field and suggested he should not have been included in the side that lost to Australia in the tri-series one-dayer in Adelaide.
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India went in with two spinners and as many pacers in the first Test against Pakistan.
Sairaj Bahutule (4 for 96) and Wahid Sayyed (3) were the wreckers-in-chief as Maharashtra crushed Rajasthan by eight wickets on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Super league match, to open their account with five points.
Superb bowling by Munaf Patel (4 for 54) and Sairaj Bahutule (3 for 2) helped Maharashtra bundle out hosts Rajasthan for a paltry 105 on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Super League Group A match at the KL Saini stadium in Jaipur on Wednesday. In reply, Maharashtra were 155 for 3 at stumps.
S Sreesanth replaced Munaf Patel, who is down with a stiff back, for the deciding fourth ODI against Sri Lanka.
Zaheer Khan has jumped ten places to 27th position in the latest ODI Player Rankings.
Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina and Ramesh Powar were dropped for the first two Sri Lanka ODIs.
England included Kevin Pietersen, Mathew Hoggard and Gareth Batty in place of Owais Shah, Lian Plunkett and Sajid Mohammed for the fourth ODI.
Munaf Patel got three wickets as Mumbai finished the third day on 98 for six and 79 runs ahead of Rest of India.
India rung in two changes, Munaf Patel and Dinesh Kaarthick coming in place of VRV Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni respectively, for the third Test against South Africa.
They will look to continue the momentum by fielding an unchanged side in the second Test at Durban.
After being dismissed for a paltry 231 in the first innings, Maharashtra had Mumbai reeling on 20 for 2
Rookie paceman Ishant Sharma has been drafted in to the final twelve for the second Test against Bangladesh.
India left out V V S Laxman and Yuvraj Singh, opting to go in with five bowlers for the first Test against Bangladesh.
Both teams retained the eleven that played in the drawn third Test at St Kitts.
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Discuss the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka.
BCCI said it would seek an explanation from Rahul Dravid for his outburst against the team manager Chetan Desai.
Sri Lanka were 102 for 3 when rain interrupted play in the first One-Day International against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.
The fast bowler, who is nursing a sore ankle, is thus ruled out of the first two ODIs against the West Indies.
Though India lost the ODI and Test series to South Africa, Allan Donald feels the visitors would be happy with the return to form of old warhorses such as Zaheer and Ganguly.
Dhoni donned the gloves for a short while during Monday's practice, and the focus was on Dinesh Kaarthick, who kept receiving throws from Greg Chappell and the slip cordon.
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