BCCI's All-India Senior Selection Committee which met here today replaced pacer Yadav with IrfanPathan for the last two ODIs against the West Indies to be played in Indore and Chennai on December 8 and 11 respectively.
Umesh's exclusion has been the only change in the current ODI team as the selectors have retained the rest of the squad for the remaining two matches against the Caribbean side, according to a statement issued by BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale.
Irfan, who has not played for India since 2009, drew the selectors attention by virtue of his impressive performance in this season's Ranji Trophy, in which he is the leading wicket-taker with 21 scalps.
Indian team Squad for last 2 ODIs: VirenderSehwag (captain), GautamGambhir, ViratKohli, AjinkyaRahane, Suresh Raina, RavindraJadeja, Parthiv Patel, RavichandranAshwin, R Vinay Kumar, IrfanPathan, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, ManojTiwary, Rahul Sharma, AbhimanyuMithun.