The concerns in the fast bowling department have reached the Indian selection panel and the BCCI. Munaf Patel has been forthrightly dispatched.
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Munaf Patel has been sent to Sri Lanka to bolster the Indian bowling for the ODI tri series after India suffered a 200 run defeat at the hands of New Zealand in the first match. It did not help that Ishant Sharma was laid low by an ankle injury and could not play the match and Abhimanyu Mithun suffered a heat stroke in the course of the match.
India are already without Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh has also returned home with a side strain.
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