Defending champions India named a preliminary 30-man squad today for the World Twenty20 championships to be held in England in June.

T20squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Gautam Gambhir, Murali Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Irfan Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Zaheer Khan, Abhishek Nayar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Munaf Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Rudra Pratap Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Laxmipathy Balaji, Harbhajan Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Naman Ojha.