Yuvraj Singh scored a century in India's win

India overcame a difficult start to their reply before overhauling Zimbabwe's score of 250 with 11 balls to spare in Harare on Sunday.

It was the final round robin match of Zimbabwe's home triangular one-day series - India and New Zealand will contest Tuesday's final.

At one stage India were 36-4 with a mounting required run rate.

But Yuvraj Singh (120) and Mahendra Dhoni (67 not out) righted the ship and Zimbabwe were beaten by four wickets.

When they had batted, the hosts were guilty of collapsing from 227-4 in the 45th over after Charles Coventry (74) and Tatenda Taibu (71) had set up a good platform.

Ajit Agarkar finished with 3-34 while debutant Rudra Pratap Singh, who opened the bowling, had figures of 2-44.

India rested left-arm seamers Irfan Pathan and Ashish Nehra.

Zimbabwe were without ex-captain Heath Streak, who is out for up to 10 days after ankle surgery.

And batsman Stuart Carlisle was dropped after his contract was cancelled by Zimbabwe Cricket.

Blessing Mahwire had the wickets of Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid as India lost wickets regularly at the top of the order.

With skipper Sourav Ganguly and Mohammad Kaif also failing India were in trouble but Yuvraj held his nerve and Dhoni proved the perfect partner to see India home.