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Viru would be in for some chin music: SA coach

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Posted: Apr 01, 2008 at 1241 hrs IST

Ahmedabad, April 1: Still smarting from the caning their bowlers received from Virender Sehwag in the series opener at Chennai, the South Africans are planning to pepper the Indian opener with short balls into his body and cramp him for space in the second cricket Test starting in Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Visiting team's coach Micky Arthur, while maintaining that Sehwag played a fantastic innings, said the Delhi marauder, who scored the fastest triple hundred in Test history (319 off 304 balls) in the drawn match in Chennai, would be in for some chin music in the second Test.

"We had a look at Sehwag's fantastic innings. We saw that he played his first pull shot after scoring 312. He cuts the ball very well. We plan to target him with short balls into his body and cramp him for space and see how he takes it," Arthur said after his team's first practice session at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera on Tuesday.

Asked how his fast bowlers make the plan work if the wickets do not respond well to fast bowling, Arthur said "We will have to wait and watch for the first ball to be bowled on how the wicket is. At the moment it looks good with some grass on it. But it may be a bit slow. The heat is also dry heat and we are used to similar conditions at home, like in Cape Town and Johannesburg."

Arthur also tried to put behind the issue of the SG brand of balls that is being used in the Test series and said since the team has been here for 15 days the players have hopefully become used to it.

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