"I am fit to play in the first Test against England."-VIRU

[Cricket Tragic]

Fletcher: Sehwag is expected to play the 3rd or 4th test. -CI Wtf is going on? :facepalm:

[cowboysfan]

Everybody frgot to ask viru how he feels,thats what is going on.

[Sid]

Viru - I am fit to play 1st test. BCCI - Viru will be fit for the 2nd test. Coach - Viru will be fit from 3rd test onwards. :cantstop:

[Cricket Tragic]

Everybody frgot to ask viru how he feels' date='thats what is going on.[/quote'] Sehwag was interviewed twice last week.

[saneindian]

Dhoni: We will miss Sehwag India skipper MS Dhoni on Thursday rued absence of Virender Sehwag in the first two Tests against England ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So Viru is certainly out for the first two tests. Now I have a sad feeling he will not play any part in this series.

[yoda]

that's a huge blow.

[singhprakash72]

Thank you IPL for creating another Me$$ !!!

[gs]

Thank you IPL for creating another Me$$ !!!

Tontee tontee league -- f..k yeah!

[The Realist]

This smells like the 2009 T20 in Eng all over again. A lot of speculation around when he will be ready - reality is that Sehwag will probably miss the whole series. You can blame the IPL but have to face the fact that Sehwag for all his brilliance is very injury prone.

[singhprakash72]

This smells like the 2009 T20 in Eng all over again. A lot of speculation around when he will be ready - reality is that Sehwag will probably miss the whole series. You can blame the IPL but have to face the fact that Sehwag for all his brilliance is very injury prone.

I won't be surprised if he misses whole Test series and BCCI will pretend as if it is no one's mistake. The time has come for BCCI to act professionally and create a cricket calender that makes sense. But all they care is $$$$$ and nothing more than that. They blindly try to copy professional leagues from other sport like Soccer and Basketball, but don't apply the brains that cricket is played totally on different plane. Players also need to understand they became famous by playing for country not for some fraekin club....but can you really blame them- 3 hrs of Circus Cricket vs 5 days of grueling Test match ???

[Switchblade]

This smells like the 2009 T20 in Eng all over again. A lot of speculation around when he will be ready - reality is that Sehwag will probably miss the whole series. You can blame the IPL but have to face the fact that Sehwag for all his brilliance is very injury prone.

:hatsoff:

[DeepFineLeg]

BCCI just knows how to milk the cow. To prop up IPL 4, they made the entire WC team play an extra month and a half after a grueling WC. It's a miracle we just had Gambhir and Viru getting injured.

[Sid]

Gayi bhains paani mein.............:((

[punjabi_khota]

Well you rarely get your first choice XI these days. Good thing everyone else is OK.

[Cricketics]

So much for blaiming twenty20 and IPL. What guarantee you have that Veeru would have been completely fit had he not played those 10 or whatever number of games he played in IPL?? Post or find some other reason than just always bringing boring "IPL is killing cricket" comments and stuff like that. It's really getting old and boring.

[DeepFineLeg]

So much for blaiming twenty20 and IPL. What guarantee you have that Veeru would have been completely fit had he not played those 10 or whatever number of games he played in IPL?? Post or find some other reason than just always bringing boring "IPL is killing cricket" comments and stuff like that. It's really getting old and boring.

It's not just IPL. It's symptomatic of Indian team's cricket calendar. Barely any practice games and a very dense cricket schedule.

[pensionplan]

Dhoni: We will miss Sehwag India skipper MS Dhoni on Thursday rued absence of Virender Sehwag in the first two Tests against England ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So Viru is certainly out for the first two tests. Now I have a sad feeling he will not play any part in this series.

So much for Sehwag(Shewag?) shooting his mouth off and suggesting he may be fit for the first test. Unless he plays the FC game before the 3rd Test it should be GG and Mukund opening in all the four Tests. It is great that Mukund already has some Tests under his belt playing in a low profile Test series before this mega Test series that got him well prepared. I am sure he will do well and hold his own to give a reasonable start for the famed middle order of SRT, VVS and RD to make the starts count. Good deal.

[Crookbond]

Uncertainty remains over Sehwag's return http://es.pn/oEHcUL India are set to be without Virender Sehwag for the first two Tests against England and there is still no definite timetable for his return following the shoulder surgery that ruled him out of the West Indies tour. It had already been announced that Sehwag will be joining the tour two weeks late after being given extra time to recover at home but uncertainty remains over the seriousness of his problem. "We've heard that he'll be over here for maybe the third and fourth Test, so we're crossing our fingers for that," Duncan Fletcher, the India coach, said. On the recent tour of West Indies, India had an entirely new opening combination with Gautam Gambhir also missing out with an injury. Abhinav Mukund partnered Murali Vijay for the three matches and did enough to secure a berth to England having made 147 runs at in six innings. Mukund now faces the prospect of joining forces with Gambhir to face England's new-ball attack at Lord's and Trent Bridge. MS Dhoni wants his side to be given a solid platform but knows Sehwag's boots are tough to fill. "We are a side that relies on our openers quite a bit," he said. "If we get off to a good start then we can really capitalise with the middle order we have. "As far as Virender Sehwag is concerned, there aren't many cricketers in the world who can have the impact he can. Of course we'll miss him, but the good thing for Indian cricket is it gives a chance to a youngster like Mukund who can have a look at international cricket and see what areas he needs to improve. Viru will be back at some point, but it's good to have Gautam back as well." Sehwag, though, is just one part of a formidable batting line-up that will include the returning Sachin Tendulkar along with Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Fletcher also believes that the tough batting conditions India faced in West Indies will stand them in good stead for the series ahead. "In West Indies, without some top players, they played on some spicy wickets - two like I'd never been involved with before - it was really quick, it bounced and seamed," he said. "They handled it well. So we feel they are in a good space at the moment and can carry on." Dhoni, meanwhile, isn't overly concerned that India only have their three-day match against Somerset as preparation because the team are coming off their hard-fought series in the Caribbean, although he may have been lulled slightly by the warm day on Thursday. The forecast isn't so promising. "The West Indian climate is quite different but there's nice weather here for cricket. I don't think there's too much pressure on us to acclimatise," he said. "The last two days we've had fantastic net sessions. In West Indies, wickets were slightly different. It was a challenge for the batsmen because shot-playing wasn't very easy. Over here it might be a bit different because the outfield should be miles faster than what we had in West Indies."

[Sid]

^lol,mcenley this also has been posted earlier :phehehe: Uncertainty remains over Sehwag's return

[Crookbond]

^lol,mcenley this also has been posted earlier :phehehe: Uncertainty remains over Sehwag's return

It's in a separate thread and surprisingly not merged with this one.