India need one win at Bay Oval as New Zealand hand Brett Randell a maiden call-up

India can put the one-day series beyond New Zealand at Bay Oval on Friday, with Shreyas Iyer taking charge of a much-changed side and the hosts handing a maiden call-up to Brett Randell

India lead the five-match series 2-0 and need only the fourth one-day international to settle it, a win at Mount Maunganui putting the contest beyond reach with a game to spare.

That advantage survived Tuesday's washout in Hamilton, where the third match was abandoned without a ball bowled. New Zealand can no longer win the series, and the best they can manage now is to square it by taking both of the remaining games.

Both squads have been thinned by the two-Test series that begins in Wellington on November 19, with senior players from either side already detached from the one-day group.

What Friday settles

A win for India would make it 3-0 with one match to play and take the series out of New Zealand's reach, leaving Sunday's finale at the same ground as a dead rubber.

Defeat would keep the hosts alive at 2-1 and turn Sunday into a decider, with a second win levelling the series at 2-2 and one match abandoned.

The fourth ODI starts at 7.30am IST on Friday, and the fifth is also at Bay Oval on Sunday.

Iyer takes over a changed India

India split the captaincy for this series, with Shubman Gill leading the first three matches and Shreyas Iyer taking over for the last two. Ishan Kishan is his deputy and keeps wicket.

Gill, KL Rahul and Anshul Kamboj were selected only for the first three one-day games and have left for Wellington, where Nitish Reddy, who played the first ODI, has also joined the Test camp.

Tilak Varma, Yash Thakur and Kumar Kushagra have been added for the last two matches. Head coach Gautam Gambhir stays with the one-day squad, while Sitanshu Kotak and Morne Morkel run the Test camp. "Me, Morne and some other staff will go to Wellington," Kotak said.

Randell earns his first call-up

New Zealand named a 14-man squad for the fourth ODI, captained by Mitchell Santner, with the uncapped seamer Brett Randell in it for the first time.

Randell is 31, bowls right-arm pace and has 145 professional appearances behind him, five of them for New Zealand A. He has just returned from a County Championship stint with Derbyshire.

"It's always a special time when a player earns their first international call up," head coach Rob Walter said, describing Randell as a consistent performer in domestic cricket for some time now.

Josh Clarkson, who has played six ODIs and last turned out for New Zealand against Bangladesh in April, comes in for Sunday's match. "There's been a few movements throughout the series so we're fortunate to be able to bring in Brett and Josh," Walter said.

New Zealand's bowling stocks stretched

Lockie Ferguson is out of both remaining matches with a low-grade right-calf tear picked up during the T20I series. "Lockie Ferguson has been ruled out of ODIs four and five," New Zealand Cricket said.

Blair Tickner was struck while batting in the second ODI in Wellington and, although cleared of concussion, had to serve the ICC's mandatory seven-day stand-down because Matt Fisher replaced him in the XI. He is named for the fifth match.

Kristian Clarke joined the squad as bowling cover, while Matt Henry, who missed Hamilton after a collision with Devon Conway in training, is available again on Friday. He and Kyle Jamieson were due at the Test camp after the third ODI but have stayed on for this one.

Senior names head for Wellington

Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Glenn Phillips and Nathan Smith left Hamilton on Wednesday to prepare for the Tests, and none of them appears in the squad for either remaining one-day match.

Support staff have moved with them, with bowling coach Jacob Oram, batting coach Luke Ronchi and strength and conditioning coach Chris Donaldson all going to Wellington. Mitch Renwick and Corey Mileys join Walter and Martin Guptill for the last two ODIs.

New Zealand's Test squad to face India is due to be named in the coming days.

The fourth ODI begins at Bay Oval on Friday, with the series finale at the same ground on Sunday.