Sehwag desperate to join squad before one-dayers

New Delhi, April 22: Desperately missing the action in the Caribbean, dashing batsman Virender Sehwag is on the road to complete recovery and raring to join his team-mates there before the start of the one-day series against West Indies.

Sehwag, who was ruled out of the Test squad for the West Indies tour due to a shoulder injury sustained during the second Test against Zimbabwe in March here, is undergoing intensive physiotherapy to be fit in time for the one-dayers.

"I am recovering fast and I am satisfied with my progress," Sehwag said here on Monday.

"However, I have not started practice as yet and I think my treatment will continue for some time," Sehwag said adding he could not set an exact timeframe for complete recovery.

"But I am very hopeful to be fit in time for the one-day series against West Indies starting in Jamaica on May 25," the flamboyant batsman said

Sehwag's doctor Yash Gulati was also hopeful that the Delhi batsman would be fit before the team for the one-dayers was announced.

"He is doing quite fine. He is responding well to the treatment.... I am quite confident he would be fully fit before the one-day squad is announced," the doctor said.

Sehwag, compared often to master blaster Sachin Tendulkar for his aggressive strokeplay, has earned himself the distinction of a specialist one-day batsman after his explosive knocks in India's recent outings.