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What's common between Murali Vijay, S Badrinath and Dinesh Karthik? They all hail from chairman of selectors K Srikkanth's state
The Indian team has faced a lot of ridicule after their inability to cope with short-pitched bowling in their games against West Indies and England in the World Twenty 20.
To avoid this problem, the selectors opted for specialists for the four-match one day series in the Caribbean starting June 26.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni left for London with coach Gary Kirsten yesterday morning to attend a meeting with selectors (chairman) K Srikkanth and Raja Venkat. The other three selectors â Yashpal Sharma, Narendra Hirwani and Surendra Bhave â were hooked up through teleconference from Mumbai.
Rohit Sharma did the job as an opener but then, the selectors reminded themselves that it was only a stop-gap arrangement. Hence, Murali Vijay was selected to strengthen the opening position.
S Badrinath was picked to beef up the middle-order. However, it cannot be ignored that both batsmen belong to Tamil Nadu from where Srikkanth and secretary N Srinivasan hail from. The duo also plays for Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings in the IPL.
M Vijay, who faced Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson in the Test series, should be suited to face the West Indies pacers. Dinesh Karthik (16th man) is the back-up wicketkeeper and also hails from Tamil Nadu. | 
