A second-string Indian team, led by Suresh Raina, left for Zimbabwe today to play a tri-series, hoping to convince the selectors they were ready for the big league. The 15-man-squad will play Sri Lanka and the hosts in a double-leg tri-series that begins in Bulawayo on Friday and ends with the final in Harare on June 9.The selectors have rested eight top stars — captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra — from the tournament.Four members of the touring squad — fast bowlers Umesh Yadav and Pankaj Singh, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and batsman Naman Ojha — have not played international cricket at the senior level.