Sehwag ruled out of Asia Cup with injury: Karthik to replace

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The Indian team management has its fingers crossed over the fitness of opener Virender Sehwag, who sustained a hamstring injury during the thrilling win over Pakistan in the Asia Cup in Dambulla. More... Sehwag's hamstring strain has team India worried Indianexpress, Agencies, 20 June 2010 The Indian team management has its fingers crossed over the fitness of opener Virender Sehwag, who sustained a hamstring injury during the thrilling win over Pakistan in the Asia Cup in Dambulla. The swashbuckling opener pulled his right hamstring in India's pulsating one-ball-to-spare win over Pakistan. Sehwag was in pain during his his 30-ball stay at the wicket and was assisted by Suresh Raina as a runner. However, the team management is hopeful that Sehwag would recover in time for the matches against Sri Lanka, including the June 24 final. With there being no specialist opener in the reserves, India would have to promote either Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma to open the innings in Sehwag's absence. "He has pulled his hamstring. The physio has been taking care of him, But we will take a call on his fitness tomorrow," said team manager Ranjib Biswal. Biswal, however, said pacer Ashish Nehra, who was nursing back spasms, is completely fit now. "Nehra had back spasms during the first match. But he has recovered completely and should be ready for the games against Sri Lanka," said Biswal.

[SachDan]

Let's hope Viru recovers for the final

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Sehwag ruled out of Asia Cup with injury: Karthik to replace Team India's swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag will be out of action for the next 10 days due to injury. More... Asia Cup: Karthik to replace injured Sehwag NDTV Correspondent, June 21, 2010 New Delhi Team India's swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag will be out of action for the next 10 days due to injury. Dinesh Karthik will replace him in the Asia Cup squad. Sehwag pulled his right hamstring during the pulsating one-ball-to-spare win over Pakistan recently. He was in pain during his 30-ball stay at the wicket and was assisted by Suresh Raina as a runner. "He has pulled his hamstring. The physio has been taking care of him, but we will take a call on his fitness tomorrow," team manager Ranjib Biswal had said on Sunday. More details are awaited.

[f2000560]

why hasn't anyone slammed cheeka yet !

[Lord]

^ we did that aready wen the squad was selected.Karthik should've been there in first place.now dont think he'll get to play on tomorrow.

[b555]

no replacement? :hmmmm:

[Lord]

no replacement? :hmmmm:

Karthik

[b555]

Karthik

ok ok..

[f2000560]

^ we did that aready wen the squad was selected.Karthik should've been there in first place.now dont think he'll get to play on tomorrow.

but karthik is from chennai its clear case of bias :hitler:

[Bradman99]

What an injury prone dude..

[DomainK]

:((

[Ranjha]

Damn this sucks....was hoping for a sehwag special in one of the remaining 2 games esp finals....

[saneindian]

How serious is Viru's injury. The test series starts in 3 weeks and Viru is an absolute must in that series.

[Andy]

Bye Bye Asia Cup.

[Sachinism]

Fkk 10 days :wall:

[ZodiaC]

Ah heck.:((

[cowboysfan]

it must be a minor grade 1 pull,he will be alright for the tests.

[diegovegaz]

i hope dhoni tries out saurabh tiwary for tomorrow's game kohli can open, tiwary can come at 5 or 6

[vvvslaxman]

Uthappam still injured?

[vvvslaxman]

Karthik has to convert his starts. Since Srilanka series his scores have been 32 not out 19 not out 48 34 44 79 11 22 18 33 27 Just once he crossed 50.. that was against Saffers when Sachin made 200.