Tendulkar fitness test put off

MUMBAI: The fitness test for Sachin Tendulkar, recuperating from a shoulder injury and in Chennai undergoing training and practice, has been put off by a few days.
    
"The fitness test will be held in Mumbai on May 22 or 23 and it will be in the presence of Andrew Leipus, former Indian team physio, and Kiran More, national selection panel chief," Board Secretary Niranjan Shah said.

 

The fitness test had been scheduled on May 20.

 

"We are selecting the team for the Test series on May 24 and have time till before the selection committee meeting to test Sachin's fitness," Shah added.

 

Leipus, who is in Mumbai, will leave for Chennai on Tuesday to oversee the champion batsman's training at the MRF Academy, Shah said.
    
Tendulkar, who underwent the shoulder operation in late March, has been ruled out of the one-day series against the West Indies commencing on May 18 in Kingston, Jamaica.
    
Along with Tendulkar, opener Wasim Jaffer, who underwent a shin surgery last month, will also undergo a fitness test ahead of the selection committee meeting.

 

"Jaffer also will undergo a fitness test," Shah said.

 

India will play a four-Test series in the West Indies from June 2.