India’s first-choice wicketkeeper, Dhoni, sustained an injury on his right forearm during the training session ahead of the first ODI while taking throwdowns from the team’s support staff member Raghavendra.

Whether Dhoni will feature in tomorrow’s playing XI for India is still an uncertainty. In his absence, the door of opportunity has opened for the other two wicketkeepers – KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant – who both are part of the ODI squad.

“We will have to think about the combinations. I don’t think playing a bowler less is a good idea because, with the extra fielder in till the 40th over, it becomes very difficult to sort of get a few guys to chip in with a few overs here and there.

“We will have to work out the batting combination to try and give game-time to the guys we want to. But, I don’t see the bowling combination changing,” the skipper said.”

India are expected to experiment with the playing XI in the five ODIs and any inclusion or exclusion shouldn’t come as a surprise.

ODI squad for first two games: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Vijay Shankar, Rishabh Pant, Siddharth Kaul, KL Rahul

ODI squad for remaining three games: Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Vijay Shankar, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant