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India win toss, elect to bat

June 02, 2006 20:11 IST
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India won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against the West Indies at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St John's, on Friday.

The visitors decided to strengthen their batting and went in with only one spinner in Anil Kumble and three pacers, in young V R V Singh, who will make his Test debut, S Sreesanth and Munaf Patel.

Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan were left out.

For the West Indies Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who did not play the final two one-dayers because of a hamstring injury, returned to the side.

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Wasim Jaffer, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohd Kaif, M S Dhoni, Anil Kumble, S Sreesanth, Munaf Patel and VRV Singh.

West Indies: Brian Lara (captain), Christopher Gayle, Daren Ganga, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ian Bradshaw, Corey Collymore, Fidel Edwards and Dave Mohammed.

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