Indian pace bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was recalled to the one-day team for the first two games against Sri Lanka following his match-winning spell in the second test.
Sreesanth took five for 75 in a memorable comeback to the national team after a 19-month absence.
Sreesanth replaced Munaf Patel and left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha took the place of leg-spinner Amit Mishra in the 15-man one-day squad named by the national selectors on Wednesday.
India have rested spearhead Zaheer Khan and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh for the two Twenty20 internationals that precede the five-match one-day series.
Uncapped off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Ashok Dinda were named in the Twenty20 team.
The two Twenty20 internationals will be played on Dec 9 in Nagpur and on Dec 12 in Mohali and the first two one-dayers in Rajkot (Dec 15) and Visakhapatnam (Dec 18).
The other three ODIs will be played at Cuttack, Kolkata and Delhi.
First two ODIs: Mahendra Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Pragyan Ojha, Sudeep Tyagi, Virat Kohli.
For Twenty20: Mahendra Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda, Sudeep Tyagi, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma.
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