Sehwag averages over 50 for India in Tests

The 27-year-old, who has scored 11 Test centuries, has been sidelined since the second game of the one-day series in Pakistan with a sore shoulder.

Chief selector Kiran More said both Sehwag and spinner Harbhajan Singh, who had finger trouble, would be fit.

Batsman Yuvraj Singh had already been ruled out by a hamstring problem.

The left-hander suffered a the injury while scoring a match-winning 107 not out in the final one-day international against Pakistan last Friday.

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Sehwag has established himself as one of the game's most destructive openers in the past and scored 254 against Pakistan in Lahore before succumbing to injury.

Yuvraj, meanwhile, made a hundred in the final Test and was named Man of the Series after scoring 344 runs with a strike rate of 97 during the one-dayers, which India won 4-1.

"I guess after being on the scene for five years I am getting more consistent now," the 24-year-old said.

"You learn these things with experience - the more you play the better you become. Mentally I am much stronger."

The selectors are expected to announce a squad on Thursday.