Yuvraj, Harbhajan in India’s provisional WT20 squad

Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have been included in the 30-man provisional squad for the ICC World Twenty20 2014, which will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh in March-April, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Friday (January 17).

Yuvraj was recalled to the Indian limited-overs teams for the series against Australia at home last year, but while he won India a Twenty20 International almost singlehandedly, his failures in the ODIs in that series and then in South Africa led to him being dropped for the tour of New Zealand. Between the series against Australia and South Africa, however, he did score a half-century in the ODI series against West Indies.

Harbhajan, meanwhile, hasn’t played for the national team since the Hyderabad Test against Australia in March 2013.

The national selectors also named Unmukt Chand, Stuart Binny, Kedar Jadhav, Mandeep Singh, Karn Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Rajat Bhatia, Sanju Samson and Shahbaz Nadeem, none of who have played an international match yet.

The selectors also named a 30-member provisional squad for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2014, which will be played alongside the men’s event.

The men’s event starts from March 16 and the women’s edition begins a week later on March 23. Both will get over on April 6.

Provisional squad (men):

MS Dhoni (capt, wk)

Shikhar Dhawan

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Suresh Raina

Ajinkya Rahane

Ambati Rayudu

Dinesh Karthik

Ravindra Jadeja

R Ashwin

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Mohammad Shami

Ishant Sharma

Vinay Kumar

Stuart Binny

Mohit Sharma

Kedar Jadhav

Yuvraj Singh

Amit Mishra

Rajat Bhatia

Sanju Samson

Ishwar Pandey

Umesh Yadav

Unmukt Chand

Mandeep Singh

Harbhajan Singh

Varun Aaron

Shahbaz Nadeem

Parthiv Patel

Karn Sharma

Provisional squad (women):

Mithali Raj (capt)

Harmanpreet Kaur

Karuna Jain

Smriti Mandhana

Amita Sharma

Poonam Raut

Jhulan Goswami

Niranjana Nagarajan

Shubhalakshmi Sharma

Rajeshwari Gaikwad

Veda Krishnamurthy

Ekta Bist

Sonia Dabir

Vanitha VR

Anagha Deshpande

Gouhar Sultana

Archana Das

Sneh Rana

Snehal Pradhan

Shwetha Jadhav

Sushma Verma

Shikha Pandey

Madhuri Mehta

Thirush Kamini

Saika Ishaque

Neetu Jaiswal

Meghna Singh

Anita Lodhi

Ritu Dhrub

Asha S Joy