The minnows of cricket beat the World champs by five wickets in the ODI triangular series.
One of the national selectors hinted on Monday that the ace batsman has not recovered sufficiently from his elbow injury.
Dav Whatmore believes his team will produce "a surprise or two" on their tour of England which starts on Tuesday.
The world champions declined an invitation to play in a one-day tournament in Sharjah starting in late March.
"Whatever Bari has said are his personal views and don't reflect that of the board," PCB spokesman Abbas Zaidi said.
The 27-year-old Lee has taken 151 wickets in 84 one-day internationals.
The Australian middle order batsman is suffering from an ankle injury. Michael Clarke is taking his place.
The New Zealand batsman returned home with a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Auckland's Tama Canning.
Tendulkar, Sehwag and Rahul Dravid figure in the one-day and Test squads, while Anil Kumble is in the Test squad for the Super Series against Australia.
The Indian men's hockey coach Harendra Singh is determined to seal India's 2020 Olympic berth in the upcoming Asian Games as he feels it will give the eight-time winners ample time to become realistic medal contenders in Tokyo.
Captain Habibul Bashar was in jubilant mood after Bangladesh scored a shock five-wicket win over world champions Australia.
The Bangladesh spinner was reported for suspect bowling action during the second Test against Australia.
A modest New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has said his team was "fortunate" to be playing on similar wickets after pulling off a dramatic victory over Australia in the ICC World Twenty20 in Dharamsala on Friday.
Defending champions Australia and New Zealand continued their unbeaten run in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup by thrashing Korea 5-2 and lowly Canada 5-0 respectively in their league matches on the third day of the hockey tournament in Ipoh.
The former India captain said the tag of 'chokers in crunch matches' now belongs to them and not South Africa.
India, eying their maiden Champions Trophy title, had earlier crushed bitter-rivals Pakistan 4-0 in their campaign opener on Saturrday.
Australia's group decider with New Zealand will be a tough battle compared to the prospect of facing rank outsiders the United States.
The bookmakers have placed World Champions Australia at a tempting 31-20 to lift the trophy in England.
India may be the outright favourites in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final against Bangladesh but the defending champions will be under more pressure, former captains Mohammad Ashraful and Habibul Bashar said on Wednesday.
The three teams will play in a one-day tri-series in a European venue before next year's ICC Champions Trophy.
World champions Australia want to be the first team to score 400 runs in one-day internationals.
Acting skipper Rahul Dravid said it was the 'mix and match' strategy in bowling which worked in the team's favour.
The World champions take on India at Gwalior on October 26 in their first match of the tri-series.
Seven of the 10 votes on the ICC's executive board are needed to for the series to lose its Test status.
India's captain called for a two-tier system if the number of Test-playing nations is going to be expanded to 16.
Indian eves beat Australia by six wickets in the third of the seven-match one-day series.
New Zealand could climb to number ranking in ODIs if they can win their next two series at home to Sri Lanka and Australia.
Ganguly said Shiv Sundar Das, Gautam Gambhir and Wasim Jaffer would be in the reckoning for the openers' slots.
The Indian captain said the team will try its best in Sunday's second final in Sydney.
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