England captain Anrew Flintoff won the toss and decided to bat first in the fourth One-Day International against India at Kochi on Thursday.

India made one chance in the side that won the third ODI in Goa, bringing in S Sreesanth in place of Munaf Patel.

England made three changes. Kevin Pietersen, Mathew Hoggard and Gareth Batty were included in place of Owais Shah, Lian Plunkett and Sajid Mohammed.

Teams:

India: Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid (capt), Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Harbhajan Singh, Ajit Agarkar, S Sreesanth.

England: Andrew Strauss, Matthew Prior, Ian Blackwell, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff (capt), Paul Collingwood, Vikram Solanki, Geraint Jones, Matthew Hoggard, Gareth Batty, James Anderson.