Live: Bangladesh win toss, elect to field

NEW DELHI, May 25: Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar won the toss and asked India to bat first in the final Test match at Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka on Friday.
India's bowling spearhead Anil Kumble is fit to torment Bangladesh as the tourists seek a series win.
The 36-year-old, India's most successful bowler in both forms of the game with 547 Test and 337 One-day wickets, did not bat or bowl in the rain-savaged first Test in Chittagong due to fever.
India lean heavily on the veteran for wickets and in his absence the other bowlers allowed Bangladesh's ninth-wicket pair of Mashrafe Mortaza and Shahadat Hossain to put on 77 and save the follow-on, and with it the Test.
"Anil is a proven match-winner in any conditions," said Indian captain Rahul Dravid ahead of the decider at the Sher-e-Bangla national stadium, a new Test venue.
Both teams were praying for a rain-free match after bad weather in the port city of Chittagong wiped out 15 of the stipulated 30 hours of play in the drawn game.
Bangladesh hope to put on a sterling display as a farewell gift for coach Dav Whatmore, who ends his four-year tenure with them after this match and is a leading candidate to sign up with India.
The Indian cricket board is due to meet on June 4 to pick a successor to Greg Chappell, the former Australian captain who quit as India's coach after the World Cup.
Bangladesh's fortunes rest on Mortaza, a gifted 23-year-old who was deservedly named man of the match in Chittagong for his 4-97 in India's first innings and a match-saving 79 with seven boundaries and three sixes.
India, for whom veterans Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly hit centuries, will retain opener Wasim Jaffer despite his horrific first-over noughts in both innings.
Either seamer Ishant Sharma or left-arm spinner Rajesh Pawar will make his Test debut after India omitted seasoned batsmen Venkatsai Laxman and Yuvraj Singh, and seamer Vikram Rajvir Singh from a shortlist of 12.
Teams (from):
India: Rahul Dravid (capt), Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Karthick, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Rudra Pratap Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ramesh Powar, Rajesh Pawar, Ishant Sharma.
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar (capt), Mohammad Ashraful, Javed Omar, Shahriar Nafees, Saqibul Hasan, Rajin Saleh, Tushar Imran, Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique, Enamul Haque, Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain, Syed Rasel, Mehrab Hossain.
Umpires: Daryl Harper (AUS) and Billy Doctrove (WIS)
TV umpire: Nadir Shah (BAN)
Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (SRI).