Figure out India's Zimbabwe-bound ODI squad

Rajneesh Gupta presents a statistical outlook of the players named in India's squad for the upcoming limited-overs' series in Zimbabwe.

Ambati Rayudu (R) of India is congratulated by team mates. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

With the selectors opting to rest most of the senior players, Ajinkya Rahane will lead India on next month's tour of Zimbabwe, which includes three One-day Internationals and two Twenty20s.

Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who played the last of his 229 ODIs in June 2011, staged a comeback to the ODI squad as did batsman Robin Uthappa.

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Harbhajan, who last played an ODI against Zimbabwe way back in September 2005, is the oldest player in the squad (34 years 361 days), while Axar Patel is the youngest (21 years 160 days).

Three players in the squad are below 25 – Axar, Sandeep Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar; eight between 25 and 30 – Manish Pandey, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Sharma, Rahane, Karn Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Uthappa and Ambati Rayudu; and four above 30 – Kedar Jadhav, Stuart Binny, Murali Vijay and Harbhajan.

The 27-year-old Rahane, who has played 55 ODIs since his 50-overs debut in 2011, has captained only in one domestic one-day match – for Mumbai vs Maharashtra in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in February 2012.

The 15-member squad has two uncapped players in Pandey and Sandeep Sharma.

Meet the Zimbabwe-bound players.

ODI Career – Batting and fielding

	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	SR	100s	50s	Ct/St
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	47	24	6	189	31	10.50	81.81	0	0	15
Stuart Binny	10	7	2	108	44	21.60	76.60	0	0	2
Harbhajan Singh	229	123	33	1190	49	13.22	80.51	0	0	69
Kedar Jadhav	1	1	0	20	20	20.00	83.33	0	0	1
Dhawal Kulkarni	6	1	1	2	2*	-	100.00	0	0	2
Axar Patel	15	9	3	51	17*	8.50	127.50	0	0	8
Ajinkya Rahane (C)	55	54	2	1593	111	30.63	76.81	2	9	27
Ambati Rayudu	29	26	6	787	121*	39.35	75.97	1	5	10
Karn Sharma	2	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	3
Mohit Sharma	21	7	3	31	11	7.75	50.82	0	0	5
Manoj Tiwary	9	9	1	253	104*	31.63	76.66	1	1	3
Robin Uthappa	43	39	6	890	86	26.97	91.47	0	6	16/1
Murali Vijay	14	13	0	253	33	19.46	66.40	0	0	8

ODI Career – Bowling

	Mts	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Best	Avg	SR	RPO	4W
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	47	378.1	1760	48	4-8	36.66	47.27	4.65	1
Stuart Binny	10	46.4	225	14	6-4	16.07	20.00	4.82	1
Harbhajan Singh	229	2009.5	8651	259	5-31	33.40	46.56	4.30	5
Kedar Jadhav	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0
Dhawal Kulkarni	6	49.2	260	11	4-34	23.64	26.91	5.27	1
Axar Patel	15	106.4	492	18	3-40	27.33	35.56	4.61	0
Ajinkya Rahane	55	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0
Ambati Rayudu	29	18	111	3	1-5	37.00	36.00	6.17	0
Karn Sharma	2	19	125	0	0-61	-	-	6.58	0
Mohit Sharma	21	148.5	772	24	4-22	32.17	37.21	5.19	1
Manoj Tiwary	9	21	144	5	4-61	28.80	25.20	6.86	1
Robin Uthappa	43	0.2	0	0	0-0	-	-	0.00	0
Murali Vijay	14	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0

vs Zimbabwe–Batting and fielding

	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	SR	100s	50s	Ct/St
Harbhajan Singh	14	4	2	44	24*	22.00	95.65	0	0	4
Ajinkya Rahane	2	2	0	69	50	34.50	76.66	0	1	0
Ambati Rayudu	4	3	1	101	63*	50.50	61.96	0	1	0
Mohit Sharma	3	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	2
Murali Vijay	2	2	0	32	21	16.00	40.00	0	0	1

vs Zimbabwe–Bowling

	Mts	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Best	Avg	SR	RPO	4W
Harbhajan Singh	14	127.1	511	19	4-33	26.89	40.16	4.02	1
Ajinkya Rahane	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0
Ambati Rayudu	4	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0
Mohit Sharma	3	26	99	6	3-48	16.50	26.00	3.81	0
Murali Vijay	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0

Figure out India's Zimbabwe-bound ODI squad

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