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Short & fast: Johnson's plan for Viru

Fast bowlers will tell you they don't get frightened. The biggest, meanest men in the side, it is their job to inflict pain, not suffer it. But Sehwag can send the world's toughest and quickest into the foetal position, as he almost did to Morne Morkel in Nagpur last week. It's something of a paradox, therefore, that the man who has handled Sehwag as well as anyone in recent years is Mitchell Johnson.

Johnson is quick and awkward, but can be more fragile than your average fast bowler - belt him a few times and you can almost sense him searching for a suitable stack of coats to crawl under. But somehow, his style has worked against Sehwag.

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