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Injured Zaheer Khan to return home
LAHORE: The injury-plagued Indian cricket team
on Saturday suffered yet another blow when left-arm paceman Zaheer
Khan was ruled out of the remaining two Tests against Pakistan.
Zaheer, suffering from a suspect hamstring injury, will return home
on Monday, the day the second Test begins in Lahore.
Team Manager Ratnakar Shetty said the decision to send the Baroda
paceman home was taken after considering medical opinion.
"After considering the reports of the scan and the opinion of the
specialist as well as team physio Andrew Leipus, it has been decided
that Zaheer will return home on April 5," he said adding the chances
of his recovery before the third Test was in doubt.
Zaheer had already been ruled out of the second Test.
Left-arm paceman Ashish Nehra, who played in the first two one-dayers
but missed the first Test due to a split webbing in his bowling
hand, has already been flown in here as a reinforcement for the
bowling attack.
Skipper Sourav Ganguly, nursing a back problem, will also miss the
second Test although he is expected to join the team ahead of the
third match beginning on April 13. Middle-order batsman Mohammad
Kaif has replaced the captain in the squad.
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