Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and allrounder Yuvraj Singh were the other notable absentees for the May 28-June series which also involves Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.
Players who performed well in the recent Twenty20 Indian Premier League were given a chance in the one-day international arena, with fast bowlers Pankaj Singh and Ashok Dhinda, wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha and offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin all making the India squad.
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will join the Indian team for two subsequent two Twenty20 internationals against Zimbabwe on June 12 and 13.
Suresh Raina (captain), Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Ashok Dinda, Pankaj Singh, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Naman Ojha.
