Sehwag will leave for South Africa on Wednesday morning – BCCI Source
Stylish Indian opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 will be leaving for South Africa on Wednesday, 8th of December. BCCI decided to send a batch of players a bit earlier to South Africa to get acclimatized with the conditions over there as
the tourists would not have even a single warm-up game ahead of the three-Test series which commences in Centurion on December 16.
The sources within Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) told media reporters that originally Sehwag planned to leave for South Africa on Monday along with coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gary-Kirsten-c58527 and three other players including Jaydev Unadkat, Cheteshwar
Pujara and Umesh Yadav but the plan was changed as the opener sustained a viral infection.
"Sehwag pulled out late as he was not well, down with viral infection, and will be leaving on Wednesday morning with eight other cricketers and manager Ranjib Biswal", said the BCCI source.
The other players, who will also be joined by Sehwag on the same flight, include the Indian captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni, batting Maestro Sachin Tendulkar, the spearhead spinner Harbhajan Singh, middle-order batsman Suresh Raina, reserve
wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, pacers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranjib-Biswal-c83999.
The sources also revealed that the former captain and prolific middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792.
Stand-in captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 on
December 10.
India has won its recent two Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033.
During the six-week long tour, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 will play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals and a solitary T20 International against the Proteas. The opening Test of the three-match series starts in Centurion on December 16.
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