England ask India to bat in first one-dayer 14 Nov, 2008 © AFP
 England captain Kevin Pietersen England captain Kevin Pietersen won the toss and sent India in to bat in the opening game of the seven-match one-day series here on Friday. England: Kevin Pietersen (capt), Ian Bell, Matt Prior, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Owais Shah, Ravi Bopara, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Stephen Harmison, Samit Patel. India: Mahendra Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Rudra Pratap Singh. Umpires: Russel Tiffin (ZIM) and Amish Saheba (IND) TV umpire: Suresh Shastri (IND) Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (SRI) |