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

India [ Images ] recalled attacking batsman Virender Sehwag [ Images ] into the playing eleven, omitting left-arm spinner Murali Kartik [ Images ] 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 [ Images ] 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 [ Images ], Yuvraj Singh [ Images ], Irfan Pathan [ Images ], Zaheer Khan [ Images ], RP Singh [ Images ], Harbhajan Singh [ Images ].

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