<p>New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl against a new-look India opening partnership in the first one-day international in Hamilton on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The Black Caps are looking to bounce back from a 5-0 whitewash in the Twenty20 series and stand-in captain Tom Latham said his bowlers were keen to attack.</p>.<p>"I think history suggests that chasing is the easier option here and with a short boundary on one side hopefully later on it will be hard to defend," he said.</p>.<p>Latham is replacing regular skipper Kane Williamson, who will miss at least two of the three ODIs with a shoulder injury.</p>.<p>Tom Blundell has been given his ODI debut in Williamson's number three slot in the batting line-up.</p>.<p>India have called up one-day international newcomers Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw to open the batting.</p>.<p>Their promotion comes after India, already missing regular opener Shikhar Dhawan, lost his partner Rohit Sharma to a tour-ending calf injury.</p>.<p>Captain Virat Kohli said he would have opted to bowl had he won the toss.</p>.<p>"But it's not a bad thing to bat first either," he said. "It's a good track and as a side it'll be a challenge for us to keep putting those big scores on the board."</p>.<p>India are second in the ODI rankings, with New Zealand third.</p>.<p>It is New Zealand's first ODI since the World Cup final in July last year, which ended with scores tied after 50 overs and a super over and England winning by virtue of scoring more boundaries.</p>.<p>The Black Caps beat the heavily favoured Indians in the semi-final and Latham said the struggling home team hoped to repeat the feat in Hamilton.</p>.<p>"When things haven't been necessarily going the way you want then you have to look back at those good times and hopefully put a good perfoamnce on the board to start this series well," he said.</p>.<p><strong>New Zealand:</strong> Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Tom Blundell, Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (capt), Colin de Grandhomme, Jimmy Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Hamish Bennett.</p>.<p><strong>India</strong>: Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Virat Kohli (capt), Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.</p>.<p><strong>Umpires</strong>: Langton Rusere (ZIM), Shaun Haig (NZL)</p>.<p><strong>TV Umpire:</strong> Bruce Oxenford (AUS)</p>.<p><strong>Match referee</strong>: Chris Broad (ENG)</p>
<p>New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl against a new-look India opening partnership in the first one-day international in Hamilton on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The Black Caps are looking to bounce back from a 5-0 whitewash in the Twenty20 series and stand-in captain Tom Latham said his bowlers were keen to attack.</p>.<p>"I think history suggests that chasing is the easier option here and with a short boundary on one side hopefully later on it will be hard to defend," he said.</p>.<p>Latham is replacing regular skipper Kane Williamson, who will miss at least two of the three ODIs with a shoulder injury.</p>.<p>Tom Blundell has been given his ODI debut in Williamson's number three slot in the batting line-up.</p>.<p>India have called up one-day international newcomers Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw to open the batting.</p>.<p>Their promotion comes after India, already missing regular opener Shikhar Dhawan, lost his partner Rohit Sharma to a tour-ending calf injury.</p>.<p>Captain Virat Kohli said he would have opted to bowl had he won the toss.</p>.<p>"But it's not a bad thing to bat first either," he said. "It's a good track and as a side it'll be a challenge for us to keep putting those big scores on the board."</p>.<p>India are second in the ODI rankings, with New Zealand third.</p>.<p>It is New Zealand's first ODI since the World Cup final in July last year, which ended with scores tied after 50 overs and a super over and England winning by virtue of scoring more boundaries.</p>.<p>The Black Caps beat the heavily favoured Indians in the semi-final and Latham said the struggling home team hoped to repeat the feat in Hamilton.</p>.<p>"When things haven't been necessarily going the way you want then you have to look back at those good times and hopefully put a good perfoamnce on the board to start this series well," he said.</p>.<p><strong>New Zealand:</strong> Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Tom Blundell, Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (capt), Colin de Grandhomme, Jimmy Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Hamish Bennett.</p>.<p><strong>India</strong>: Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Virat Kohli (capt), Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.</p>.<p><strong>Umpires</strong>: Langton Rusere (ZIM), Shaun Haig (NZL)</p>.<p><strong>TV Umpire:</strong> Bruce Oxenford (AUS)</p>.<p><strong>Match referee</strong>: Chris Broad (ENG)</p>