With speculation building over the likely
axing of Virender Sehwag from India's
ODI team for the home series against
England, selectors Vikram Rathore and
Saba Karim had a long chat with the
under-fire opener ahead of the third and
final ODI against Pakistan here on
Sunday.
Rathore and Karim, in turns, held
discussions with Sehwag for more than 20
minutes each during the Indian team's
training session at the Feroze Shah Kotla
grounds here on Saturday.
In between two batting stints at the nets,
Sehwag was seen in a one-to-one
conversation with each of the two
selectors.
Rathore first spoke for more than 20
minutes after Sehwag had his first hit.
After that Karim was seen having an
animated chat with the beleaguered Delhi
opener.
The two selectors, after some time, also
had a discussion with Indian captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, which lasted for
around 15 minutes.
There has been intense speculation that
one among Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir
would be getting the boot when the
selection committee, headed by Sandeep
Patil, meet here on Sunday to choose the
team for the five-match home ODI series,
starting in Rajkot on January 11.
The Delhi duo have failed to provide a
good start for some time now and that
has hurt the team most.
Gambhir, though, might escape the axe
on the back of hitting two centuries and
two half centuries for 388 runs at an
average of 38.80 in his last 10 matches.
Sehwag, on the other hand, has managed
just one fifty in his last 10 ODI innings
with scores of 31, 4, 34, 3, 15, 96, 30, 5, 0
and 20 for a total of 238 runs at a dismal
average of 23.80.
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