Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat in the opening game of the five - match One - Day International (ODI) series at the WACA Ground here on Tuesday.
The teams:
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Ravichandran Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Barinder Sran, Umesh Yadav.
Australia: Steve Smith (captain), David Warner, Aaron Finch, George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Wade, James Faulkner, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood, Joel Paris.