India vs Zimbabwe 2016: India's predicted playing XI

Spinners:

Yuzvendra Chahal had a very good IPL and might make it to the Indian XI in Zimbabwe

Yuzvendra Chahal, Jayant Yadav and Axar Patel have been chosen in the squad as spinners. Axar is a certainty in the playing XI and the fate of Chahal and Yadav will depend on the combination which the team management wants to go with.

If the team management wants to go in with four pacers and a lone spinner, neither Chahal nor Yadav will make it to the playing XI. But if its three pacers and two spinners, Yuzvendra Chahal might get into the team ahead of Yadav.

Chahal has been brilliant in the List A format and the T20s for Haryana and was rewarded with a call-up to the Board President’s XI to face the visiting South African team. His heroics in the 2016 IPL helped his team Royal Challengers Bangalore to reach the finals and Chahal finished 2 wickets less than the eventual purple cap winner Bhuvneshwar Kumar.