Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the second of the five-match ODI series at Harare Sports Club in Harare on Friday.

India have retained the team which beat Zimbabwe in the opening match.

The hosts have made one change to the side bringing in pacer Brian Vitori to replace spinner Tinotenda Mutombodzi.

An expectedly comfortable win to start with, the young Indian team under Virat Kohli would look to continue asserting its supremacy over minnows Zimbabwe.

In a perfect start to the tour, India thrashed Zimbabwe by six wickets with Kohli leading from the front, scoring a hundred on Wednesday.

But the win was not without a few glitches with the inexperience of Indian bowlers exploited by a couple of Zimbabwean batsmen.

Sikander Raza nearly got a hundred while lower down the order Elton Chigumbura managed to torment the Indians for quite a while with a 34-ball 43 which included half a dozen boundaries.

Teams:

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (capt), Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Shami Ahmed, Vinay Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat

Zimbabwe: Vusi Sibanda, Sikandar Raza, Sean Williams, Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor (capt/wk), Malcolm Waller, Elton Chigumbura, Brian Vitori, Prosper Utseya, Kyle Jarvis, Tendai Chatara

In fact, India's lead pacer R Vinay Kumar ended up conceding at a rate more than six in his nine overs.


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