Naman Dhir and Kamil Pooran debut in Lucknow after India opt to bowl

Toss India chose to bowl vs West Indies

Shreyas Iyer won his 14th toss in 17 matches as India captain and asked West Indies to bat first in the first T20I of the five-match series in Lucknow. In their fourth international of the tour, the visitors were yet to win a toss.

India, who had been playing with all three openers in the Asian Games in Japan under the stand-in coach VVS Laxman, went back to the extra specialist middle-order batter, leaving out Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. India's specialist bowlers were Arshdeep Singh, Mayank Yadav and Kuldeep Yadav. The allrounders were Axar Patel, Shivam Dube and the debutant Naman Dhir, who also impressed on his ODI debut earlier in the tour.

West Indies had specialist T20 firepower reinforcing the ODI squad, which lost the series 2-1. The 30-year-old right-hand opening batter Kamil Pooran made his international debut on the back of a successful CPL. West Indies went in with one more seam option than India; Shamar Joseph, Shamar Springer, Matthew Forde and Romari Shepherd. Akeal Hosein and Roston Chase were the two fingerspinners.

India: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Naman Dhir, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mayank Yadav, 11 Arshdeep Singh

West Indies: 1 Shai Hope (capt & wk), 2 Kamil Pooran, 3 Shimron Hetmyer, 4 Rovman Powell, 5 Sherfane Rutherford, 6 Romario Shepherd, 7 Roston Chase, 8 Matthew Forde, 9 Shamar Springer, 10 Akeal Hosein, 11 Shamar Joseph