Mount Maunganui, Nov 15 (PTI) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bowl against India in

Mount Maunganui, Nov 15 (PTI) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bowl against India in

Mount Maunganui, Nov 15 (PTI) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bowl against India in

    Mount Maunganui, Nov 15 (PTI) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the series-deciding fifth and final ODI here on Sunday.

    India lead the series 2-1 having won the first two ODIs of the series, while the third match was washed out. The visitors lost the fourth ODI by a huge margin of 244 runs.

    India handed debut to right-arm seamer Yash Thakur.

    But India’s Gurnoor Brar and New Zealand’s Matt Henry and Kyle Jamieson will miss the final ODI as they move on to prepare for the two-Test series starting on November 19.

    Teams:

    India: Rohit Sharma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Auqib Nabi, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Thakur.

    New Zealand: Tim Seifert (wk), Will Young, Nick Kelly, Dean Foxcroft, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Kristian Clarke, Blair Tickner, Jacob Duffy, Matthew Fisher.

(This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)