Vijayawada: Off spinner Harbhajan Singh is all set to come back to the Indian team for the final One-day match against West Indies on Saturday after missing one game due to injury.

Harbhajan Singh, who did not play the penultimate One-dayer at Jodhpur on Thursday due to a minor injury, will replace Reetinder Singh Sodhi, sources in the team management said on Saturday, even though skipper Rahul Dravid defended the all- rounder's performance at Jodhpur.

"Sodhi should not be blamed. Especially when a young player like him is making a comeback," Dravid said in his pre-match comments on Saturday.

He has no problem. He was put in a difficult situation, having come in when myself and Yuvraj Singh got out in quick succession," Dravid said, adding that all the 15- members of the squad were available for selection on Sunday.

But Sodhi, who was present at the nets on Saturday, did not strain himself much, perhaps aware that he will not be in the playing XI for Saturday's match. Dravid disagreed with suggestions that there were a lot of experiments being carried out in the batting order.

"We are not really juggling with the batting order too much. We in the team management feel that there are problems like Sanjay Bangar and Mohammad Kaif not being able to get many opportunities. But it cannot be helped as they come down the order between number five and seven."

"I want to keep all my options open and I do not want to give any chance to the opposition to prepare on our strategies in advance," Dravid said refusing to give out the team strategy for Sunday's match.

"If we bat first, we have to post a winning total or we have to chase well to clinch the series," Dravid said. Coach John Wright once again stressed on the need for an improvement in the bowling department.

"We bowled out of line a bit in few matches while the West Indies bowled well. I think we bowled a good line and length in the first fifteen overs in the last game and we will have to do the same on Sunday," Wright said.

"In most of the games the spinners have been bowling within 15 overs and in Baroda, Harbhajan bowled the seventh over. We need the bowlers to repeat their performance of the last match and bowl a good line and length on Sunday."

Asked about the batting, Wright said, "Our batsmen have been doing very well in this series. I am happy that Sanjay Bangar has taken the opportunity and proved that he is a very useful One-day cricketer as well."

West Indies captain Carl Hooper said Mervyn Dillon was not available for Sunday's match, as he required another week or so to recover from his injury.

"It is going to be anybody's game on Sunday. We have to bowl well and bat well. Our fielding was good in the last match but we did miss a few chance," Hooper said.

PTI

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