IND vs NZ: Team India coach Rahul Dravid inspects pitch ahead of New Zealand clash; WATCH

Team India is all set to compete in ir first T20I series under new leership of captain Rohit Sharma and he coach Rahul Dravid. first of three-match India vs New Zealand T20I series will commence live at 7:00 PM IST on November 17, from  Sawai Mansingh Stium in Jaipur.

Ahe of toss, Dravid can be seen inspecting pitch. India national cricket team is well aware of importance of toss as seen in recently concluded T20 World Cup, where team winning it seemed to win most of matches.

Team India win toss and choose to field first

While speaking at toss, Team India skipper Rohit Sharma explained his rationale to field first and also gave an insight into playing 11. " wicket looks good. Thought behind is to have a score behind us, re was quite a lot of dew while practicing from a couple of days. It's been good, has been only 2 days, been a quick turnaround, back from Dubai, spent a couple of days and back here. But it'll be good for team. We have Shreyas Iyer back, Venkatesh is debuting, Bhuvi, Siraj and Chahar are back. We're playing three spinners and two spinners. We have one eye on next World Cup. It's a lot of time ahe. We'll try our options, some results might not be immediate, but process will be crucial.
 

India vs New Zealand squs

India national cricket team: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Ruturaj Gaikw, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohd. Siraj

New Zealand cricket team: Tim Soue (captain), Todd Astle, Trent Boult, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Kyle Jamieson, am Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tim Seifert and Ish Sodhi