India bat first; Powar, Joginder in for Raina, Sreesanth

Cuttack, Jan 24 (UNI) Indian skipper Rahul Dravid won the toss and opted to bat first in the second ODI against West Indies here today.

India have made a couple of changes to the side, bringing in Ramesh Powar and Joginder Sharma in place of Suresh Raina and S Sreesanth.

West Indies, meanwhile, will be without their skipper Brian Lara, who has been ruled out due to a chronic knee peoblem. Devon Smith ''Brian has a longstanding chornic left knee problem and after the first ODI in Nagpur he felt a little sore,'' West Indies team physio Steven Patrick said.

The teams (from): India: Rahul Dravid (capt), Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthick, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Ajit Agarkar, Ramesh Powar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Joginder Sharma.

West Indies: Chris Gayle (capt), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Runako Morton, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Ramdin (wk), Ian Bradshaw, Darren Powell, Devon Smith and Jerome Taylor.

Umpires: Billy Bowden (New Zealand) and Amish Saheba (India).

Third umpire: G A Pratapkumar.

Fourth umpire: Ravi Subramanian.

Match referee: Allan Hurst (Australia).

UNI