Pakistan win toss, put India into bat

BANGALORE: Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez won the toss and decided to field first against India in the first Twenty20 International of the bilateral series here at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday.

India and Pakistan, the arch rivals are playing each other a series after a lonf period of five years.

The tall fast bowler Mohammad Irfan is making his T20I debut, he played two ODIs in September 2010.

Teams
G Gambhir, AM Rahane, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, SK Raina, RG Sharma, MS Dhoni (captain/wk), RA Jadeja, B Kumar, I Sharma, AB Dinda

Mohammad Hafeez (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal (wk), Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan.