With an air of invincibility, India return to the format that gave them a heartbreak in the not-too-distant pasi, facing West Indies in the first of three-match ODI series here on Thursday.

Shikhar Dhawan makes a comeback in the format where he has been India's third best player after skipper Virat Kohli and his deputy Rohit Sharma.

With 17 hundreds in 130 ODIs, Dhawan will rightfully lake his place

at the top of the order alongside Rohit and like ihe initial matches of ihe World Cup, KL Rahul is likely to go back to being ihe number four batsman.

With Kedar Jadhav expected to come in at No 5 or 6 depending on how Rishabh Pam is used as a floater, it will be a toss up between Manish Pandey and Shreyas Iyer for the remaining middle-order slots.

With Bhuvneshwar Kumar playing three T20 Internationals in a week across two countries, he will probably gel to cool his heels with Mohammed Shami leading the attack and Navdeep

saini making his ODI debut.

Thoroughly outplayed in the shortest format, West Indies will hope the return of the talismanic Gayle bolsters them. Gayle during the World Cup had announced that the home series against India will be his last.

l^ft-handed opener John Campbell, Roston Chase and allrounder Keemo Paul have all been recalled to the 14-member squad for the matches which will be contested at the Guyana National Stadium on Thursday, and on Augusi 11 and 14 at the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad.