The stand-in Australian captain, Michael Clarke, is relieved that batting stalwart Sachin Tendulkar and the dashing Virender Sehwag will not be part of the much vaunted Indian batting line-up in the one-day series starting Sunday.
Tendulkar has been rested while Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are not playing due to injury.
Tendulkar scored more than 400 runs in the Test series and Michael Clarke is happy that his bowlers will not have contend with his class. “I am happy that all those guys (Tendulkar, Sehwag) are not playing. I am sick of seeing Sachin scoring so many runs. But I still think the Indian team is very strong. They have a lot of young players who have played T20s and ODIs before and they have a lot of talent,” Clarke said on the eve of the series opener.
The Australians are also without some big stars and Clarke said it would be an even contest. —PTI