Injured Sehwag going on way home, MS.Dhoni a little hurt

The Board of Control for Cricket in India confirmed on Tuesday that Virender Sehwag would play no further part in the tournament, except the announcement came after the matter had snowballed into a full-blown controversy.

The BCCI press release said that the opener, who missed the 2 warm-up games as well as India’s 25-run victory over Bangladesh on Sunday, would return to India after consulting by specialists in England. Dinesh Karthik was named as his replacement.

Sehwag batted in the nets for the first time on this trip today, but his outing lasted just 12 deliveries, before he walked back into the changing rooms at the Lady’s Bay ground.

There was some speculation then that the opener would be returning home, but at the mandatory pre-match press conference, Mahendra Singh Ms.Dhoni refused to take questions on what were at the time still rumours of Sehwag’s departure.

A question was posed to Ms.Dhoni about the lack of information over the last five days, on what seemed like a serious injury, from the team management, and complaints were made about information getting leaked through unofficial channels. The media manager, Anirudh Choudhary, repeated that the BCCI would send out a release within 24 hours, but it was pointed out that the question had been put to Ms.Dhoni and not him.

The Indian captain, not amused by the tone of the query, lashed away. “I am not leaking the information, that’s for sure. If anybody here is accusing me o leaking information, they can stand up and say so.”