India Bat, Shami Ahmed Debuts

New Delhi: Indian captain MS Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat against Pakistan in the third and final one-day international at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday.

India have brought in Ajinkya Rahane and Mohammad Shami Ahmed in place of Virender Sehwag and Ashok Dinda.

Pakistan have replaced Anwar Ali with Umar Akmal.

Teams:

India: Gautam Gambhir, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(captain & wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shami Ahmed, Ishant Sharma

Pakistan: Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal (wk), Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan

Scores	Upcoming	Results
South Africa vs Pakistan - 3rd ODI 4th Test - Australia v India - December 26-30, 23:30 GMT 1st Test - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan - December 26-30, 07:30 GMT 3rd ODI - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan at Harare Afghanistan won by 8 wickets (with 139 balls remaining) 3rd T20I - West Indies v Bangladesh at St Vincent Bangladesh won by 80 runs

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