India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat in the Twenty20 World Cup final against Pakistan in Johannesburg on Monday.
Virender Sehwag, who was nursing a groin injury was left out of the side and Yusuf Pathan included in his place.
Pakistan too made one change to their side that played in the semi-final against New Zealand, bringing in Yasir Arafat in place of Fawad Alam.
Teams:
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Joginder Sharma, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Rudra Pratap Singh.
Pakistan: Imran Nazir, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Yasir Arafat.
