Tendulkar hurt his hand during the tour of New Zealand

Tendulkar sustained the injury during the tour of New Zealand at the start of the year.

And the problem was exacerbated during the World Cup, although he was still the tournament's leading batsman with 673 runs as India reached the final.

He was subsequently ruled out of the one-day triangular series currently taking place in Bangladesh, to rest the injury.

But Tendulkar will now travel to the United States on 25 April for a minor operation.

"He had been troubled with the injury for a while," Indian cricket board spokesman Amrit Mathur told BBC Sport.

"But doctors have now advised surgery.

"He has been advised to rest for four weeks after that and make no major commitments until August."

India's next fixtures are not until October, when New Zealand tour India.

"He will have plenty of time to recover for future engagements," Mathur added.

Tendulkar is the world's leading one-day batsman with a record 12,219 runs and 34 centuries.

He also has 8,811 Test runs at an average of 57.58, with 31 hundreds.