India will risk on the fitness of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final 15-member squad on Monday for next month's World Cup. Regular openers Sehwag and Gambhir and paceman Kumar missed the current five-match one-day international series against South Africa through injury while Tendulkar hurt his constrain in Saturday's second match and will return home.
As for the bowling attack, the selectors included four pacemen and three spinners for the Feb. 19-April 4 tournament being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Experienced seamer Zaheer Khan will spearhead the pace attack with support from Kumar, Munaf Patel and Ashish Nehra, while Harbhajan Singh leads the spin department, backed up by Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla.Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma missed out on a spot as the selectors opted in its place to include a third spin bowler due to the slow nature of the pitches in the sub-continent.
On January 17, 2011
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