Sachin Tendulkar is likely to return to the one-day side when the squad is picked for the last four matches of the England series in Kanpur on Thursday, a selector indicated. Tendulkar had requested the selectors to leave him out of the first three ODIs after a strenuous Test series against Australia.

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has no intention of giving up captaincy and is looking to guide the team through the transitional phase.

After hinting that Sachin Tendulkar was a sore loser, former Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has taken a swipe at the then skipper Sourav Ganguly and spinner Harbhajan Singh, suggesting that the duo had chickened out of their 2004 Nagpur Test fearing a defeat on grassy wicket.

The Duckworth/Lewis defeat in the Kanpur ODI against India has left England a frustrated and disappointed side, admitted coach Peter Moores but insisted the visitors were capable of turning things around in the do-or-die fourth one-dayer here on Sunday.