India may have rested captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, leading spinner R Ashwin and seamers Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, but Zimbabwe's new coach Andy Waller expects their replacements to prove equally threatening.

"All along we've prepared with the hope that we might surprise them in one of the games - we have to be realistic, and look to be competitive and do the best that we can," Waller said.