MUMBAI, Feb 3: Batsman Virender Sehwag and medium-pacer Munaf Patel return to the Indian team for the first two One-day Internationals against Sri Lanka next week.

Opener Sehwag was dropped for the recent one-day series against West Indies due to loss of form.

“He was out of form and needed a break, now he's back,” chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar told a news conference on Saturday.

“We'd like him to bat in the middle order,” Vengsarkar said of the 28-year-old.

The four matches are in Kolkata (Feb 8), Rajkot (Feb 11), Goa (Feb 14) and Visakhapatnam (Feb 17).

India's World Cup squad will be announced on Feb 12.

The 23-year Munaf suffered an ankle injury on the tour of South Africa and struggled through the final Test of the series which the visitors lost 2-1 in December.

Squad: Rahul Dravid (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Dhoni (wicket-keeper), Robin Uthappa, Ajit Agarkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, Virender Sehwag and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.—Reuters