India get Sehwag boost for second Lanka ODI

Hard-hitting Indian opener Virender Sehwag has been declared fit for the second one-day international against Sri Lanka starting here on Saturday. Sehwag, who missed the last match in Dambulla on Wednesday due to a back injury, batted more than half an hour in the nets on Friday. He has so far scored 6,124 runs in 196 one-dayers with nine hundreds and 33 half-centuries.

"He (Sehwag) is fit. He made way for a batsman in the first game and a batsman will miss out here," India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni told reporters on the eve of the day-night match. MORE...