Ind vs Eng: Sehwag to join Team India for last two Tests | Broad hat-trick stuns India

Trailing 0-2 in the four-match Test series against England, India today received a much-needed boost with dashing opener Virender Sehwag all set to join the embattled team for the last two matches.

“Sehwag will fly to England early Wednesday morning to join the team,” said BCCI secretary N Srinivasan in a statement.

The 32-year-old opener, who missed the series in the West Indies and the first two Tests in England because of a surgery that had ruled him out for at least two months, is expected to bolster India's batting.

India crashed to a humiliating 319-run defeat with a day to spare in the second Test at Trent Bridge yesterday to give England a 2-0 lead in the series.

They also lost the first Test at Lord's by 196 runs.

Now India will have to win at least one of the remaining two Tests to prevent England from snatching away their number one Test status.

Sehwag, who has scored 7,694 runs in 87 Tests at an average of 53.43 with 22 three-figure knocks including two triple centuries, would be playing the all-important two-day warm-up game against Northamptonshire from August 5, which precedes the remaining back-to-back Test matches at Edgbaston and The Oval.

In the absence of Sehwag and at times Gautam Gambhir, India tried three different opening combinations.

The pair of Murali Vijay and Abhinav Mukund opened the innings in the three-match Test series in the West Indies that India won 1-0. Vijay, however, failed to make a mark in the Caribbean, scoring just 72 runs in three Tests.
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