Indian captain Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to field against Scotland in the one-off one-day international in Glasgow on Thursday.
India rested key players Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan besides leaving out Rohit Sharma.
Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Ramesh Powar who warmed the bench during the Test series against England, got a look in while Robin Uthappa, Ajit Agarkar and Munaf Patel who were not part of the Test squad also were included.
India beat England 1-0 in the three-Test series and are to play seven one-day internationals from August 21.
Teams:
India: Rahul Dravid (capt), Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Kaarthick, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ramesh Powar, Piyush Chawla, Ajit Agarkar, Rudra Pratap Singh and Munaf Patel.
Scotland: Ryan Watson (capt), John Blain, Gavin Hamilton, Majid Haq, Paul Hoffmann, Neil McCallum, Navdeep Poonia, Dewald Nel, Colin Smith, Fraser Watts and Craig Wright.