First Ind-NZ ODI today

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson urged his teammates Saturday to avenge last year's narrow ODI series defeat to India by putting in the performance of their lives this time around.

The Kiwis and their hosts were locked at 2-2 going into the decisive match of their 2016 one-day international rubber only for India to cruise to victory by 190 runs.

"In our last series here we were two-all going into the decider which ... at (that) stage was a good effort, although we knew we hadn't quite played our best performance.

"And it was a shame in that last game. So it would be nice to come out this series and do a little bit better," said Williamson ahead of Sunday's opener at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.

India, second in the ODI rankings, come into the three-match series on the back of a convincing 4-1 limited-overs victory over Australia and Williamson isn't fooling himself about the size of the task ahead.