Sachin Tendulkar to skip Sri Lanka-Bangladesh tri-series (Reuters)

CHENNAI (Reuters) – India's officer batsman Sachin Tendulkar has opted discover of incoming month's multilateral one-day program against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to spend himself for the upcoming effort program against Bangladesh.

The 36-year-old Tendulkar told the Board of Control for Cricket in Bharat (BCCI) he desirable a fortuity from the shorter edition of the mettlesome but would be acquirable for the digit tests.

"Sachin Tendulkar desirable to be invigorated for the tri-series. He module endeavor the tests against Bangladesh," the BCCI said in a evidence on Friday.

Rohit Sharma was titled in to change Tendulkar in meet digit of individual changes to the 16-man unit for the limited-overs series, play in Bangladesh from Jan. 4.

Yuvraj Singh, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda and Amit Mishra were also additional to the roster patch Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and Pragyan Ojha were every omitted.

The competition ends with the test on Jan. 13 with the prototypal of the digit tests commencing in metropolis on Jan. 17.

Bharat unit for tri-series: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Sudeep Tyagi, Dinesh Karthik, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda, Amit Mishra.

(Reporting by Sanjay Rajan; Editing by Apostle Johnston. To ask or interpret on this news telecommunicate sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)