Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced on Saturday that he will quit one-day cricket after the end of the series against England.
The 38-year-old had been called into the squad after a two-year absence earlier in the day.
“I am honoured and privileged to be selected in the Indian one-day team,” said Dravid, who has scored 10,765 runs in 339 ODIs and made 12 centuries.
“Since I had not been picked for one-day cricket for the last two years, I was obviously a little surprised and to be honest, because I had not been picked, I had not informed the selectors or the board of my desire to solely focus on Test cricket.
“At the end of this one-day series, I would like to announce my retirement from one-day and Twenty20 cricket and concentrate only on Test cricket.
“I am committed, as always to give my best to India in this one-day series and obviously the Test series that follows.”
Dravid played his last one-dayer in September 2009, but got the selectors’ nod following his impressive performances in the ongoing four-Test series in England.
However, injured stars Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh were left out.
India will play a Twenty20 match against England at Old Trafford on August 31 before the five-match one-day series starts at Chester-le-Street on September 3.
“We have selected the team on basis of the conditions in England. We have selected the team after a lot of deliberation and I am sure it is a very good side,” chief selector Krishnamachari Srikkanth said in New Delhi.
Off-spinner Harbhajan (abdominal strain) and all-rounder Yuvraj (finger injury) were not part of the limited-overs squad, to be led by World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The duo have already been ruled out of the remaining two Tests of the four-match series due to injuries, suffered during the second Test at Trent Bridge.
The Indian cricket board on Wednesday said in a statement that Yuvraj’s injury could take around four weeks to mend, while Harbhajan was likely to recover in three weeks’ time.
They were replaced by left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha and middle-order batsman Virat Kohli. India currently trail 2-0 in the Test series.
Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, paceman Vinay Kumar and wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel, who are not part of the Test squad, returned for one-dayers.
India Twenty20 and one-day squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Amit Mishra, Parthiv Patel.
