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India elect to field in final Pakistan ODI November 18, 2007 14:53 IST Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] won the toss and elected to field first in the fifth and final one-dayer against Pakistan on Sunday. With India holding an unassailable 3-1 lead, both teams made four changes to their teams from the last game, with young Indian all-rounder Praveen Kumar and Pakistan wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed making their debuts. India left out batsman Sourav Ganguly [Images] and frontline bowlers Zaheer Khan [Images], Rudra Pratap Singh and off spinner Harbhajan Singh [Images]. Young batsman Rohit Sharma, pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth [Images] and left-arm spinner Murali Kartik [Images] came in, besides Kumar. Pakistan rested strike bowler Shoaib Akhtar [Images], all rounder Shahid Afridi [Images], batsman Younis Khan and dropped struggling wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal. Opening batsman Imran Nazir [Images], Yasir Hameed [Images], all rounder Fawad Alam were included alongside Sarfraz. Teams: India: Mahendra Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar [Images], Virender Sehwag [Images], Gautam Gambhir [Images], Yuvraj Singh [Images], Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, Irfan Pathan [Images], Praveen Kumar, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Murali Kartik. Pakistan: Shoaib Malik [Images] (captain), Salman Butt [Images], Imran Nazir, Yasir Hameed, Mohammad Yousuf [Images], Misbah-ul Haq, Fawad Alam, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar, Umar Gul. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||