Rajkot, January 12, 2007 - India Friday announced probables for the World Cup and the first two one-dayers at home against the West Indies, giving former captain Sourav Ganguly a place in both but axing Virender Sehwag from the latter.

Sehwag, a former vice captain whose batting has been in poor form, was dropped from the squad for the first two one-day matches against the West Indies starting Jan 21 but was included in the list of 30 probables for the World Cup, set to take place in March-April in the Caribbean.

"He (Ganguly) is an experienced player and he's done well in South Africa," said Dilip Vengsarkar, chairman of the selectors of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, referring to Ganguly, whose ouster from the Indian squad had caused a huge row.

On Sehwag's exclusion, he commented: "Sehwag has been out of form for some time. He is a fine player and a natural stroke-maker but he needs to go back in the nets and sort out his batting."

The first one-day match of the four match series will be played in Nagpur Jan 21 and the second match in Cuttack Jan 24.

Rahul Dravid retained his captaincy while Sachin Tendulkar was named his deputy in the series against the West Indies. V.V.S. Laxman, Anil Kumble and Irfan Pathan were ignored for the first two one dayers. But all the three featured in the World Cup probables.

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