Left-arm seamer Irfan Pathan [ Images ] is all set to be dropped for India's [ Images ] second cricket one-dayer against South Africa [ Images ] in Durban on Wednesday in Kingsmead where a sunny morning has raised prospects of a timely start to the day-night encounter.

It has been clear and bright since morning and even though there is humidity in the air, the game should be on. The opening tie of the five-match one-day series was washed out without a ball being bowled in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Pathan's omission implies that India would go into the game with four bowlers in Zaheer Khan [ Images ], Munaf Patel [ Images ], Ajit Agarkar [ Images ] and Harbhajan Singh [ Images ].

The fifth bowler's duties would be taken care of by the seam-up stuff of Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] and off-spinner Virender Sehwag [ Images ], who is all set to take the field after recovering from a finger injury.

Pathan's inability to bowl in death overs must have cost him his place as is the fact that India wants to strengthen their batting by including a specialist batsman in the ranks.

As things stood hours before start of the game, Pathan, Dinesh Kaarthick, S Sreesanth [ Images ], Wasim Jaffer [ Images ] and Anil Kumble [ Images ] are set to be dropped.