Indian captain Rahul Dravid [Images] won the toss and elected to bat in the third and final cricket Test against England [Images] at The Oval in London [Images] on Thursday.

Both India and England retained their teams that played the second Test at Trent Bridge which the visitors won last week to take an unassailable 1-0 lead.

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Kaarthick, Sachin Tendulkar [Images], Sourav Ganguly [Images], VVS Laxman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images], Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan [Images], Rudra Pratap Singh and S Sreesanth [Images].

England: Michael Vaughan [Images] (captain), Andrew Strauss [Images], Alastair Cook [Images], Kevin Pietersen [Images], Paul Collingwood [Images], Ian Bell [Images], Matt Prior [Images], Chris Tremlett, Ryan Sidebottom, Monty Panesar [Images] and James Anderson.