Virender Sehwag did not want to talk about cricket but his body language carried the message loud and clear. He still needs a lot of time to recover fully from surgery.
The swashbuckling batsman, who visited the Oxford Golf & Country Club here on Wednesday on a promotional, ducked the query on fitness.
“No, let’s not go into that,” he told DNA. “You know better.”
But his refusal to have a swing at the course said it all.
Sehwag, who swings bowlers out of the park with ease, declined to have a swing with the club when Clive Bradsley, the Australian golf coach at the academy, invited him to do so.
“I don’t want to tax my shoulder and I am sorry,” he said.
Clive was quick to respond: “I do understand you just went through an operation...”
“Yes”, came Sehwag’s reply. He was more of a spectator while going around the course.
Sehwag does not have any plans to take up golf in the near future but might give it a try after his retirement.
“Maybe I would think about playing golf thereafter,” said Sehwag, who flew from Mumbai early this morning and returned to the capital late in the evening.
The dashing opener was out of the World Twenty20 and West Indies tour after damaging his shoulder during the Indian Premier League semi-final in South Africa. He had to undergo an operation for a shoulder tear in London on June 11.
