Thursday 4 December 2014 13:34, UK
Defending champions India have included only four of their 2011 World Cup winners in their 30-man preliminary squad for next year's tournament.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin are the only survivors from the squad that beat Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai.
Among those dumped by the selectors were Yuvraj Singh, who was the player of the tournament in 2011, opening batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, seamer Zaheer Khan and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
The final 15-man squad will be announced next month ahead of the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, which runs from February 14 to March 29.
India's 30-man squad: MS Dhoni, S Dhawan, R Sharma, A Rahane, R Uthappa, V Kohli, S Raina, A Rayudu, K Jadhav, M Tiwary, M Pandey, W Saha, S Samson, R Ashwin, P Rasool, K Sharma, A Mishra, R Jadeja, A Patel, I Sharma, B Kumar, M Shami, U Yadav, V Aaron, D Kulkarni, S Binny, M Sharma, A Dinda, K Yadav, M Vijay.
