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Kaif in for Tendulkar
AFP, Chennai
India's star batsman Sachin Tendulkar wifi miss the second Test against South Africa after aggravating a groin injury, officials said on Sunday.
Tendulkar, who needs 172 runs to overtake West Indian Brian Lara as Test cricket's leading run-getter, did not field for most part of the final day’s play in the first Test which was drawn earlier in the day.
"Sachin will not be playing the next Test," secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Niranjan Shah said.
Tendulkar will need a week to recover and the selectors replaced him with Mohammad Kaif for the second Test starting in Ahmedabad on Thursday, Shah added.
Kaif, 27, played the last of Ills 13 Tests against the West Indies in Jamaica in June, 2006 and had scored 624 runs at an average of 32 84.
Kaif, a middle-order batsman,
enjoyed a successful domestic season, scoring 993 runs in 13 first-class matches at an average of 58.41.
Tendulkar is expected to be fit for the third and final Test in Kanpur from April 11.
Indian captain Anil Kumble had earlier told reporters that Tendulkar had aggravated the groin injury he suffered on the recent Australian tour, but was hopeful he would play in Ahmedabad.
Kumble himself missed part of the last day’s play with a groin strain and Shah said the captain's progress will be monitored ahead of the AhmedabadTest.
Former Indian physiotherapist John Gloster had recommended a three-week rest for Tendulkar after the Australian tour ended on March 4.
The batsman, who turns 35 next month, however, declared himself fit for the South African series.
Tendulkar, who fell for zero in India's only innings here, has 11,782 runs from 147 Tests, second behind Lara's record tally of 11,953
runs.
The prolific Indian is already the top one-day batsman with 16,361 runs and holds the world record of 39 Test and 42 one-day centuries.
Having earned the Test recall, Kaif said he was expecting to be picked based on his domestic performance.
"I had scored some 1000 to 1200 runs," Kaif told the tabloid Mumbai Mirror. "A bulk of them were scored on tough wickets so the call was kind of expected." He scored 687 runs at 59.73 from eight Ranji Trophy games for Uttar Pradesh and 266 at 52.46 from two Duleep Trophy matches for Central Zone this season.
Kaif was dropped from the Test side after India's tour ofWest Indies in June 2006 despite scoring an unbeaten 14B in the second Test in St Lucia. ” I had learned a lot during this period. 1 think whatever happens, happens for some good only. So I think there must have been some good reason of my being away from the Indian side.
"I must thank tny supporters and those who stood by me in my bad period. I hope that the bad phase has ended and this selection will bring more good news for me in the future."
Though excited about being included in tire squad, Kaif said India would no doubt miss Tendulkar. "Captain Anil Kumble will never have wanted him [Tendulkar! to be out of the side," Kaif said. But now I have got a chance and if I play, I will try and makethebestout of it."