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MS Dhoni wins toss, elects to bat first

| | Oct 29, 2016, at 06:58 pm
Vizag, Oct 29 (IBNS): Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first, here on Saturday.

The five-match cricket ODI series is nicely poised at 2-2.

While India won the first and third ODI, the visitors won the second and fourth tournaments.

India dropped Hardik Pandiya and Dhawal Kulkarni for this match, which allowed off-spinner Jayant Yadav make his ODI debut for India.

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni (w/c), Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Axar Patel, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah

New Zealand (Playing XI): Martin Guptill, Tom Latham, Kane Williamson(c), Ross Taylor, James Neesham, BJ Watling(w), Corey Anderson, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi

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