By IANS,
Nagpur/ Chennai: Dinesh Karthik will keep wickets in the third and fourth one-day internationals against Sri Lanka as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni serves a two match suspension for India’s slow over rate in the Nagpur game Friday.
Fast bowler Ishant Sharma has been recalled in place of S. Sreesanth, who is recovering from a bout of swine flu.
Virender Sehwag has been named the captain of the 15-member Indian squad for the matches at Cuttack (Dec 21) and Kolkata (Dec 24).
The national selection committee that met at Chennai Saturday named a virtually unchanged squad.
Dhoni will be returning to the fray for the fifth and final game in Delhi December 2.
The squad:
Virender Sehwag (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Pragyan Ojha and Praveen Kumar.