INDIAN batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar will skip the upcoming series of limited-overs matches in Sri Lanka, it was announced on Wednesday (July 4).
India will play five one-day internationals, starting in Hambantota on July 21, plus a one-off Twenty20 match on August 7.
Tendulkar, 39, who does not play in international Twenty20 games, has completed an unprecedented century of centuries during the Asia Cup in Dhaka in March and is the world's leading run-getter in both Test (15,470) and one-day (18,426) cricket.
India one-day and T20 squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virat Kohli (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ashok Dinda, Vinay Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwari, Rahul Sharma.
