India face a shaken wait for to find out if opening batsman Virender Sehwag will be fit to face Australia in Thursday’s World Cup quarter-final during a Sardar Patel Stadium.
Sehwag longed for India’s final organisation match, an 80-run win over a West Indies in Chennai final week after pang an allergic greeting to a painkilling injection in his right knee.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni pronounced Wednesday a energetic run-scorer’s aptness was still an issue.
“We have been receiving a call upon Viru in a dusk or may be tomorrow sunrise prior to a begin of a game,” Dhoni said. “Apart from that, all a others have been fit.”
Sehwag has scored 7,707 runs together with fourteen hundreds in 233 one-day internationals during an normal of 35.35.
But a set upon rate of over 104 is arguably a many revelation statistic, as it is justification of his unchanging capability to get a innings off to a peppery begin which leaves a antithesis upon a defensive.
“It’s unequivocally great to have Sehwag opening a innings, since if a deliveries have been reduced as well as to a physique or somewhere else, he’s a kind of batsman who can have a many of which kind of bowling,” Dhoni explained.
Dhoni, himself a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, added: “He can fool around an assertive game, shift a march of a compare in a initial 5 overs as well as give your group a kind of movement which is needed.”
However, Sehwag has never done an ODI hundred in twenty-seven matches opposite Australia as well as he averages a medium 22.65 opposite a universe champions.
If Sehwag is ruled out, India have been set to keep Suresh Raina, brought in opposite a West Indies, as well as keep Test opener Gautam Gambhir during a tip of a sequence to partner Sachin Tendulkar.
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