T20 World Cup, IND vs PAK: India wins toss, opt to bowl against Pakistan

Melbourne: India won the toss and elected to field first against Pakistan in the ICC T20 World Cup campaign opener here at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. 

India will have three seamers, and two spinners in their setup while Pakistan has three fast bowlers and two spinners in their playing XI.

India skipper Rohit Sharma said: "Looks like a good pitch, it's always nice to bowl with overcast conditions. Think the ball will swing around a bit, and we need to take its advantage. Preparations have been good. We played a couple of practice games in Brisbane. Time to come out and enjoy ourselves now. We were expecting nothing less than this, hopefully, we'll entertain them (the crowd).

On the other hand, Pakistan captain Babar Azam said: "Toss is not in our hands, but we would have liked to bowl first as well. We'll try to post around 160-170. We have prepared well, and we are ready for this big game. We had a T20 series back home (against England), we played a tri-series in New Zealand, so we are prepared.

Playing XIs

India: Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh

Pakistan: Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Shan Masood, Haider Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah (UNI)