India rest star players for Zimbabwe tour

India have rested regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and a host of other senior players for next month's tour of Zimbabwe, comprising three one-dayers and two Twenty20 Internationals.

Ajinkya Rahane will captain a 15-man squad, while spinner Harbhajan Singh, who played the last of his 229 one-dayers in June 2011, returns, with Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Ravichandran Ashwin all rested.