India won the toss and elected to bat First!
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So, with the inclusion of Sachin Tendulkar for the ODI series against Kiwis, Indian Team is looking back to gain the winning momentum. They defeated England by 5-0, then they defeated Sri Lanka 4-1 in Sri Lanka, but now the heat is on the Team India. The heat came to India because India lost the two Twenty20 match against them.
Priety Zinta was there at the middle in the toss and her inclusion brought the luck back to India and skipper Dhoni won the toss for the first time in New Zealand.
The team for the first ODI is as follows:
Team India: 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Zaheer Khan, and 11 Munaf Patel.
New Zealand: 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Jacob Oram, 6 Neil Broom, 7 Grant Elliott, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Ian Butler, and 11 Iain O’Brien.
Watch the live score card of the first ODI by visiting the Cricket Updates.