Indian skipper Mahendra Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat first against Pakistan in the second one-day international in Mohali on Thursday.

India recalled attacking batsman Virender Sehwag [Images] into the playing eleven, omitting left-arm spinner Murali Kartik for the day-night game.

The hosts won the first match of the five-game series in Guwahati on Monday by five wickets.

Pakistan also dropped their second spinner, left-arm Abdur Rehman, and included left-arm Sohail Tanvir in a four-man pace attack.

Teams:

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] (captain), Sachin Tendulkar [Images], Sourav Ganguly [Images], Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir [Images], Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh [Images], Irfan Pathan [Images], Zaheer Khan [Images], RP Singh, Harbhajan Singh [Images].

Pakistan: Shoaib Malik [Images] (captain), Younis Khan, Salman Butt [Images], Mohammad Yousuf [Images], Shahid Afridi [Images], Misbah-ul Haq, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Akhtar [Images], Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir and Rao Iftikhar.