India's beleaguered superstars have a chance to put their ICC World T20 debacle behind them on a short tour of West Indies.

After that they can have the long break they have been craving.

India, who on Tuesday night concluded an unsuccessful defence of their Twenty20 title with a 12-run defeat against South Africa at Trent Bridge, have named a 16-man squad to play four one-day internationals.

Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar - not part of his country's Twenty20 squad - Zaheer Khan and Suresh Raina are all being rested from the trip to the Caribbean with respective finger, shoulder and thumb injuries.

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Virender Sehwag was also not considered because of the shoulder problem which eventually and controversially ruled him out of the Twenty20 campaign.

But captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be joined in Jamaica and St Lucia by the majority of those who have failed to shine in England over the past week.

Once there, he will be doing all he can to put the disappointments behind his team - and trying to ensure none of his squad succumbs to the temptation of thinking beyond the next assignment to the rest they are due before this autumn's Champions Trophy in South Africa.

"It will be tough in the West Indies" 

"Once you lose a few games, you start dissecting everything," Dhoni admits.

"We consider 80% as the benchmark. If you are close to that, with the talent we have in the team, we have more chances of winning games.

"But we were more like 50 to 60% of our potential."

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All of that, though, is history - and Dhoni is anxious to pack it away.

"The T20 World Cup is gone. We're off to West Indies, and that's what we're thinking about now," he spelled out.

"In the next two or three days, we'll take some time off. Then we'll start working back on the basics again, accept this has happened and start preparing for West Indies.

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"It will be tough in the West Indies for us to think in the present and not about what we will be doing in 10 days' time - because there is a long break for us then.

"We want to do well in West Indies and then be really well prepared for South Africa."

"I've already started preparing"

The men coming into the India squad are left-arm pace bowler Ashish Nehra, uncapped all-rounder Abhishek Nayar and top-order batsman Murali Vijay.

Nehra, who last played an ODI match in September 2005, makes a comeback on the back of a strong showing in the Indian Premier League for the Delhi Daredevils.

The first ODI will be played in Jamaica on June 26.