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India win toss, opt to bat first in ICC World Cup warm-up against New Zealand

Virat Kohli-led India won the toss and opt to bat first in their first warm-up match of the 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup against New Zealand at the Oval in London. 

Here are the live updates:

# India win the toss and opt to bat first against New Zealand! 

# The toss is all set to take place in a few minutes.

With just a week left for the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, India will begin their final stages of the preparations for the mega event with the first warm-up match against  New Zealand at The Oval on Saturday.

The Virat Kohli-led side will play their second warm-up match against Bangladesh before kickstarting their campaign at the quadrennial event against South Africa on June 5. 

The two squads are as follows:

India: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Vijay Shankar, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami.

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), Tom Blundell (wk), Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.

Source: Zee News