England [Images] Lions' skipper Andrew Strauss [Images] won the toss and elected to bat against the Indians in their final three-day warm up match, ahead of the first Test against England, in Chelmsford, on Friday.

The Indians are being led by Sachin Tendulkar [Images], as skipper Rahul Dravid [Images] opted out of the match following a calf muscle injury he sustained earlier.

The visitors left out Ranadeb Bose while naming Gautam Gambhir [Images] as the 12th man.

The teams:

Indians: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Karthik, Sourav Ganguly [Images], V V S Laxman [Images], Yuvraj Singh [Images], Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] (wk), Zaheer Khan [Images], S Sreesanth [Images], Ishant Sharma and Ramesh Powar. 12th man: Gautam Gambhir.

England Lions: Andrew Strauss (captain), Joe Denly, Owais Shah, Jonathan Trott, Ravi Bopara, Tim Ambrose (wk), Adil Rashid, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Chris Tremlett and Graham Onions.