The selectors have picked Dinesh Karthik, the former India wicketkeeper, for the last few tours, but that is no permanent solution. “We’re grooming some wicket-keepers in the India A tours. More or less, we’ve fixed our mind till the (2019) World Cup. After that we’ll start grooming some of those wicket-keepers. “Let me tell you frankly that the boys are still not up to the mark what we had expected. So, we’ll keep giving them chance and see their maturity level,” Prasad said.

“MS Dhoni still remains the No 1 wicketkeeper in the world. Day in day out we’ve been saying that. Even in the current series, his stumping has been terrific. He’s phenomenal. There’s no comparison. I don’t see any other wicketkeeper in world cricket, let alone Indian cricket,” the former India stumper added.

Squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur.

The schedule for India tour of South Africa ODI series:

             Feb 1 -- 1st ODI – Durban

             Feb 4 – 2nd ODI – Centurion

             Feb 7 – 3rd ODI – Cape Town

             Feb 10 – 4th ODI – Johannesburg

             Feb 13 – 5th ODI – Port Elizabeth

             Feb 16 – 6th ODI – Centurion.