New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has won the toss and elected to bat against the West Indies in the opening game of the five match one-day cricket series.
Jeetan Patel has been named the Black Caps super-sub with batsman Lou Vincent dropping out of the squad for the fixture here at Westpac Stadium.
Paceman Michael Mason was included and will front for his first one-day international in almost two years.
The West Indies will be without key allrounder Dwayne Bravo who failed to recover from a side strain suffered in the tour opening Twenty20 match in Auckland on Thursday which New Zealand won in a bowl off.
Squads.
New Zealand (from): Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan Astle, Jamie How, Scott Styris, Peter Fulton, Hamish Marshall, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori, James Franklin, Shane Bond, Michael Mason. Super-sub: Jeetan Patel.
West Indies (from): Shivnarine Chanderpaul (captain), Chris Gayle, Daren Ganga, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Runako Morton, Wavell Hinds, Dwayne Smith, Denesh Ramdin, Ian Bradshaw, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards. Super-sub: Rawl Lewis.
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (South Africa), Tony Hill (New Zealand).
- NZPA
Black Caps win toss, will bat first
Stephen Fleming
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