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.

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