Out-of-favour batsman Virender Sehwag and spin bowler Harbhajan Singh
are expected to be included in the list of 30 Indian probables for the inaugural
World Twenty20 championship when the national selectors meet here tomorrow.
Sehwag lost his spot in the one-day team after the Bangladesh tour while Harbhajan
is out of the side in both forms of the game and has been replaced by Ramesh Powar after the World Cup.
Sehwag has tried to regain his touch in a local tournament
in Delhi while Harbhajan has preferred the English country cricket route to
parade his wares and reclaim his wicket-taking abilities.
Both these players have not found a berth in the Test squad
for England as well as the preceding one-day offshore ties in Ireland and Scotland.
Among others likely to get the nod, subject to fitness, is
young Uttar Pradesh batsman Suresh Raina, who has not played for more than four
months because of a knee injury and has started physical training under the
supervision of Cricket Board-appointed doctor's physiotherapist son.
Selection panel chief Dilip Vengsarkar indicated that
players coming back from injuries, such as Raina, needed to "prove their
fitness" and cited competitions like the Buchi Babu tournament in Chennai
as vehicles to do so.
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