Nagpur/ Chennai, Dec 19 (IANS) Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik will replace India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has been handed two-match ban because of the slow over rate in the second one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Nagpur Friday.
Virender Sehwag was named captain of the 15-member Indian squad for the third and fourth 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.