Asia Cup final: India win toss against Pakistan, decide to bowl first

Dubai: India won the toss and elected to field first against Pakistan in the high-voltage final of the Asia Cup T20 being played in Dubai.

Pakistan and India have come face-to-face 15 times in T20Is, with the Men in Blue dominating the head-to-head record with 12 victories, compared to the Green Shirts' three.

While India has already defeated Pakistan twice in earlier stages of the tournament, the final is expected to be a different contest altogether.

Pakistan: Salman Agha (captain), Saim Ayub, Fakhar Zaman, Sahibzada Farhan, Hasan Nawaz, Salman Mirza, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hussain Talat, Sufiyan Muqeem, Abrar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Wasim.

India: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh and Sanju Samson.