Shubman Gill makes bold call at toss - WATCH

NEW DELHI: India won the flip and chose to vessel archetypal against New Zealand successful the opening ODI of the three-match bid astatine the Kotambi International Stadium (BCA) here.The hosts were dealt a important setback up of the bid opener, with wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant ruled retired of the full bid owed to a right-side strain injury.

Dhruv Jurel has been named arsenic his replacement.

The spotlight volition firmly beryllium connected stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, some of whom are successful good signifier successful the 50-over format crossed planetary and home cricket. Kohli, successful particular, is besides chasing aggregate milestones and volition beryllium keen to marque a large interaction with the bat.Explaining the determination to vessel archetypal aft winning the toss, India skipper Shubman Gill said: “Try antithetic kinds of combinations, you know, spot what operation suits america the champion for antithetic conditions, evidently erstwhile we play successful India.

Whenever you're bowling second, there's a spot of a situation with the dew, and truthful effort retired what benignant of operation suits our information the best. It looks similar a bully wicket."Hopefully, I deliberation it'll beryllium a small spot easier to bat connected successful the 2nd innings with the caller coming in, and that was the thought process down bowling first. I deliberation playing a spot of Vijay Hazare series, everyone is coming aft playing immoderate matches, truthful everyone looks successful bully form.

We've played a batch of cricket together, truthful you know, the situation is ever bully and calm whenever we get together.”On the squad combination, Gill took a large call. He said India person opted for six bowling options, with Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav handling rotation duties, portion Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana signifier the gait attack.Meanwhile, New Zealand person fielded a comparatively inexperienced broadside and volition beryllium keen to enactment up a beardown situation against the Men successful Blue.

Stand-in skipper Michael Bracewell, who is starring the Black Caps successful Mitchell Santner’s absence, said they excessively would person preferred to vessel archetypal but were contented with batting. “We person been utilized to the upwind and person immoderate large nett sessions. It's a large bid for us, a arrogant infinitesimal each clip we play for New Zealand. We're playing a WC successful India and it's a large vantage for us. New faces, but immoderate acquisition arsenic well. Might play a spot little - Kristian Clarke makes his debut today, and Aditya Ashok is our main spinner,” helium said.Playing XIsIndia: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh KrishnaNew Zealand: Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Hay (wk), Michael Bracewell (c), Zakary Foulkes, Kristian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Adithya Ashok