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India to bat first in decider against New Zealand
Virat kohli-led Team India will play their third and final One-Day International (ODI) against New Zealand here at the Green Park stadium.
Kanpur: Virat kohli-led Team India will play their third and final One-Day International (ODI) against New Zealand here at the Green Park stadium on today, to clinch the 1-1 levelled series.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to have a bowl first.
"We are going to have a bowl. I don't think it will seam as much but still there should be some help and then dew later on in the game. Whatever we do here, the wickets tend to be generally good surfaces and the team that plays the better cricket wins. It is a great opportunity for us and we want to enjoy it out there," Williamson said.
India skipper Virat Kohli said, "It looks a good wicket. We would have been okay with batting or bowling first but keeping the dew in mind, maybe batting second was better. Irrespective of what we do first, we need to do it well."
The hosts equaled the series with a 6-wicket win at Pune, with the help of half-centuries coming from Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik. Earlier, the Black Caps, led by Kane Williamson, defeated India by six-wickets in the first ODI match at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.
The luck, however, lies in favour of India as they have never lost any of the five ODI series, played against New Zealand on home ground.
The team blue have an excellent home record has they have won eight of the last nine bilateral series here, with their only loss coming against South Africa in 2015-16 season when they lost to 2-3to them.
The squads for third ODI are as follows
India: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shardul Thakur.
New Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, George Worker and Ish Sodhi. (ANI)