Kolkata: Injury of the four key players, including Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Md Kaif, were ''not serious'' in nature, but the team management has asked Shiv Sunder Das to stay back for the first One-day match against New Zealand at Auckland on Thursday. Four players - Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Md Kaif and Sanjay Bangar - have suffered injuries. But it is nothing serious. All are expected to play from the second one dayer," BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said on Wednesday. The team management, he said, has asked right handed batsman Shiv Sunder Das to stay back with the team for the first match as stand-by. Stressing that injuries of the four players were ''not of serious consequences'', Dalmiya said "one or two of them may be fielded in Thursday's match as well". Meanwhile, reports from New Zealand said that three players - Tendulkar, Harbhajan and Bangar - were suffering from injuries and the first two have been ruled out from Thursday's engagement. Extras:
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