NEW DELHI,September 2: England skipper Paul Collingwood won the toss and invited his India counterpart Rahul Dravid for batting in the fifth ODI of the seven-match NatWest series at Headingley in Leeds on Sunday.
India named the squad with seven batsmen in which RP Singh was replaced by Gautam Gambhir from the Old Trafford match.
Seamer Jon Lewis replaced Andrew Flintoff who suffered further problems with his left ankle and is awaiting the results of a scan.
The Indians allowed the hosts to escape to a three wicket victory at Manchester to find themselves trailing 1-3 in the seven-match series and realise that any further slip-up will cost them the series.
The frustration of losing the last match, particularly after having England on the mat at 114 for 7, must be weighing on the minds of the Indians but they have to go into the day game with a positive attitude.
Rahul Dravid asserted that his team was still capable of turning on the heat in the remaining games. "It's tough, but I think when we reach Headingley we'll be pretty keen," he said.
"We know in the back of our minds that we could have won that game - the series could easily have been so different. We knew we had the upper hand and only needed that one wicket," Dravid said.
There is little doubt that India needs to lift their game by a few notches after putting up a disastrous performance in all games except, of course, in the second One-dayer at Bristol where the batting came good and posted 329 for 7 in 50 overs.
The bowling continues to be a concern, since India have not been able to bowl out England even once in the entire One-day series. They have also given the hosts chances to score in excess of 280 in the first three games.
Teams:India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ramesh Powar, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar and Piyush Chawla.
England: AN Cook, MJ Prior, IR Bell, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, RS Bopara, OA Shah, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, MS Panesar, J Lewis.