Virat Kohli led team India will take on with New Zealand in the first World Cup warm-up match at the Kennington Oval on Saturday. While India has clinched the World Cup title twice, New Zealand is yet to achieve the most coveted trophy.

India won the tournament in 1983 and 2011. India which is ranked second in ODI ranking after England will play its World Cup opener against South Africa on June 5.

With strong openers  Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, India's batting department is powerful enough to exploit opposition bowlers.  Virat Kohli, one of the finest batsman, Experienced  MS Dhoni, all-rounder Kedar Jadhav and solid hitter Hardik Pandya give complete strength to the batting line from top to bottom.

Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Hardik Pandya are the three pacers with unique capabilities under different conditions while spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal will add variety to India's bowling line-up.

"It's been great get together for the last few days. We've not played together for a couple of months but we're not the only ones in that boat. The guys are excited to be back in the camp which is really refreshing, and we're looking forward to the challenges that we have got coming up," Williamson had said at the Captain's meet.

Squads

India: Virat Kohli (capt), Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shikhar Dhawan, MS Dhoni (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Vijay Shankar, Rohit Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt), Tom Blundell (wk), Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.

Match starts at 3:00pm