Indian captain Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat in the second one-day international against a West Indian side missing captain Brian Lara.

Lara opted out of the day-night game Wednesday at the Barabati stadium with a sore knee. Opener Chris Gayle will lead the tourists and Devon Smith replaces Lara in the team.

India brought in all-rounder Joginder Sharma and off-spinner Ramesh Powar in place of Suresh Raina and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth from the side that won the first match in Nagpur by 14 runs on Sunday.

The four-match series is being played in the build-up to the World Cup that will be held in the Caribbean from March 13 to April 28.

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

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

Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Amiesh Saheba (IND)

TV umpire: G.A. Pratapkumar (IND)

Match referee: Alan Hurst (AUS)

Provided by AFP.