Bangalore : India won the toss and elected to bat first in the high-octane match against England in Bangalore on Sunday.
While Piyush Chawla, seen as a leg-spinning allrounder, has been included in the final eleven, while Sreesanth missed the playing squad on Sunday.
Stuart Board is missing the match for England owing to illness.
The weather was earlier threatening to play spoilsport as thousands of cricket fans thronged to the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium for the eagerly awaited India-England encounter.
The high-voltage clash has been the most talked about since it was shifted out of the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata to Bangalore as the International Cricket Council (ICC) found that the ground was not ready to host the match.
Since then the day-night has run into ticket controversy and police had to lathicharge fans, who were jostling for tickets outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
The winner of the match will go on top in Group B and it will also boost their confidence.
Both teams have few worries about their batting, but bowling is a concer. India gave away close to 300 runs against Bangladesh, while Netherlands passed that landmark against England a few days later.