It's going to be interesting to see who Mahendra Singh Dhoni has as his pace bowlers in the playing XI when he walks out to toss with Alastair Cook at Nagpur on Thursday.

Will it be Ishant Sharma with Ashok Dinda, who local experts in Kolkata reckoned should have made his Test debut in the previous Test against England? Or will it be Ishant and new man Parvinder Awana? Or will the gambler in Dhoni give both Dinda and Awana their first taste of Test cricket?