Sehwag fit to take on England

Virender Sehwag has recovered from a shoulder injury and will play the first Test against England at Nagpur beginning on March 1. Harbhajan Singh has also been declared fit while a hamstring injury has ruled out Yuvraj Singh from the first Test.

Sehwag averaged 73.50 in the recent Test series in Pakistan and hit 67 off 60 balls in the second ODI at Rawalpindi before his injury forced him to miss the last three matches.

Harbhajan Singh sustained a finger injury before the first ODI at Peshawar and missed the entire series. He played the first two Tests at Lahore and Faisalabad but had a dismal time, going wicketless and conceding 355 runs.

Yuvraj suffered the hamstring injury during a matchwinning 107 at Karachi that led India to a 4-1 series win. He had scored a hundred in the third Test at the same venue and was adjudged player of the one-day series after aggregating 344 runs at an average of 172.