Stylish Indian opener Virender Sehwag 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 environment over there as the tourists would not have even a single warm-up game in front 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 Gary Kirsten 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, consist of 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 S Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma along with Pragyan Ojha and the team manager Ranjib Biswal.
The sources also revealed that the former captain and prolific middle-order batsman Rahul Dravid left for South Africa on 6th of December from Mumbai, the same day when VVS Laxman departed from Hyderabad.Stand-in captain Gautam Gambhir, Murali Vijay and the spearhead pacer Zaheer Khan, who are also part of the Test squad, will join the team on 12th of December after concluding the current One Day series against New Zealand on December 10.India has won its recent two Test series against Australia and New Zealand while South Africa is coming after drawing a Test series against Pakistan in United Arab Emirates.
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