INDORE (India), Nov 16: India’s Yuvraj Singh, who pounded England with a match-winning century in the first One-day International, could miss Monday’s second match due to a back injury.

The left-hander smashed an unbeaten 138 off 78 balls at Rajkot on Friday as India hammered the tourists by 158 runs to take the lead in the seven-match series.

Yuvraj, who batted with a runner after pulling a back muscle in the early part of his innings, missed training on Sunday ahead of the second game.

“There is considerable improvement in Yuvraj’s condition, but we will take a final call on him before the match,” Indian captain Mahendra Dhoni told reporters.

India may once again have to do without in-form seamer Ishant Sharma, who missed the Rajkot match due to an ankle sprain suffered during the preceding Test series against world champions Australia.

Sharma, 20, was named the Man-of-the-Series with 15 wickets in four Tests as India won 2-0 to take the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Dhoni said England will bounce back despite the heavy defeat and warned team-mates against being complacent.

“We are always wary of becoming complacent because, if we lose, we will be criticised that we were overconfident,” the wicket-keeper/batsman said.

“We are always focused on what needs to be done. England have a very good bowling attack and they are a good side. It’s a much better attack than what they had two years ago. We are certainly not taking them lightly.”

Meanwhile, England pace bowler Ryan Sidebottom will be available for Monday’s match, his team mate Paul Collingwood said on Sunday.

Sidebottom missed Friday’s opening match due to an Achilles injury he picked up at the start of the Stanford Twenty20 competition in the Caribbean last month.

“Sidebottom is fully fit and he is up for contention. He bowled in the nets, he’s 100 percent fit,” Collingwood told a news conference.

“They hit us hard at Rajkot. We need to be aggressive. The key is early wickets, there is a bit of inexperience in their middle order and we can expose it a bit.”

Coach Peter Moores has also called for his team to be more aggressive in their bid to square the seven-match series.

“I think we can be more aggressive as a unit and take that into the next game and not wait for the game to take shape,” Moores said.

“We have to remind ourselves how we play our brand of cricket and play that brand of cricket in different places.

“You are judged by how well you take those knockbacks and how you react to it as a team, and we’re in that place at the moment.

“There is a long way to go in the series, still six games to go. We had a great one-day scrap with India in England a couple of years ago, when we won the first one quite convincingly and they bounced straight back.

“We would like to do the same,” Moores added.—Agencies