Yuvraj, Parthiv, Agarkar dropped for Mumbai Test

Selectors also dumped Chopra from the team for final Test match after losing the first home series against Australia in 35 years.

Indian selectors on Saturday dumped four team regulars from the national squad for the fourth and final Test match after losing the first home series against Australia in 35 years.

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Openers Aakash Chopra and Yuvraj Singh, pace bowler Ajit Agarkar and wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel were dropped from the squad for November 3-7 dead rubber Test in Mumbai .

SK Nair, secretary of the Indian cricket board, said the selectors deliberated hours in picking the team and decided to drop the players due to their poor performance in the current series.

Australia, which last won a Test series on Indian soil in 1969, took a series-clinching 2-0 lead on Friday by winning the third Test match by 342 runs. The tourists had earlier won the opening Test match in Bangalore by 217 runs.