Facing a series defeat, India's struggling cricketers will seek to restore some pride when they go into the third and final one-dayer against arch-rivals Pakistan in New Delhi tomorrow with the future of some of the under-performing stars at stake. The collective failure of the top order batsmen even in home conditions has hurt the team badly in recent times and the hosts will need a huge spark of inspiration to prevent the spirited Pakistanis from achieving a 3-0 clean sweep. Clearly, the pressure will be on the hosts who have also been plagued by the limited and inexperienced bowling resources. With the series already out of their grasp, the Indians may experiment by giving a chance to some of their benchplayers in a day-night game which will start at noon to neutralise the dew factor. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, in good form with the bat, has been at a loss to explain the repeated failures and there have been suggestions that he should promote himself up the batting order, considering the poor form of the top half. Ajinkya Rahane, who has not played a single match despite his decent showing in the two T20 games prior to the ODI series, is likely to feature in the playing eleven tomorrow. The hosts lost the first game in Chennai by six wickets and the second in Kolkata by 85 runs to give their arch foes their first series win on Indian soil since 2004-05.