Watch India tour of Zimbabwe 2016 Cricket Match Complete HD Highlights Today. 3rd ODI Zim v Ind at Harare, Wednesday, June 15th, 2016. As usual, the first two matches tosses won India. MS Dhoni (captain of India cricket team) chose to bowl first both times. In the first match, Zimbabwe scored 168 runs all out 1 ball remaining. From their innings and India won by 9 wickets (with 45 balls remaining).
KL Rahul scored a beautiful century off 115 balls with seven 4s and a six (Not out). AT Rayudu scored 62 runs (not out). In the second match, Zimbabwe scored 126 runs all out in 34.3 overs and India won by 8 wickets (with 139 balls remaining). When Zimbabwe lost four wickets in four balls, the foundation they had built in 32 overs came crashing down. India won the series 3-0 and didn’t lose many games during it.
MS Dhoni tied Allan Border’s record of 107 victories to become the second-most successful ODI skipper behind Ricky Ponting. The difference in ability between the two teams was glaringly obvious. In one, it was difficult to find a batter who could put up a significant innings, whereas in the other, novices were making significant contributions. On Wednesday, KL Rahul, the first Indian to make a hundred on debut, amassed an undefeated 63.
In celebration of his milestone, 30-year-old Faiz Fazal—the oldest Indian ODI debutant in 16 years—hit 55 off 61 balls and completed the victory with an exquisite pull for four. With 169 balls and 10 wickets left, India easily defeated the 124 mark. The three wickets they did surrender to complete the sweep were the fewest surrendered by any side in a series of three games.
After winning the toss, Zimbabwe chose to bat first on a surface that was true, hard, and ideal for strokeplay. However, their initial order, which played 81 dots in the first 102 balls before the first drinks break, bored the home audience. And that seems to be the strategy. They lost four in four deliveries, despite their desire to save wickets. They were bowled out with 7.4 overs remaining, despite their hopes of making up for their tardiness in the later overs.
Forget about India—irony was hammering Zimbabwe as well. Jasprit Bumrah ignited the latest meltdown of the hosts. He struck the deck, forcing the Zimbabwean batters to move more quickly. When he started the 33rd over, Zimbabwe were 102 for 3, then 104 for 7 in the 34th, and 19 runs later, all out. It was Bumrah’s second four-for in three ODIs as he concluded with 4 for 22. Playing in his first One-Day International (ODI) in over two years, Timycen Maruma was the first to fall.
He took too long to lower his bat, causing Bumrah to cartwheel off the field. After demonstrating his ability to straighten the ball, the 22-year-old fast bowler had Elton Chigumbura caught behind for his second consecutive golden duck. That was MS Dhoni’s 350th ODI dismissal. The 33rd over was over with the wicket. Malcolm Waller dipped Axar Patel into the covers off the opening ball of the subsequent one, and he proceeded to hit what should have been an easy single.
However, Richmond Mutumbami sold his partner down the river since he didn’t see things that way. When Graeme Cremer played back to the arm ball of the left-arm spinner, he also received a golden duck. The match was moving along at a languid pace until those few minutes. Vusi Sibanda and Chamu Chibhabha were unwilling to take any kind of danger. There was a magnificent on-the-up cover drive to conclude the eighth over. An off drive that shouted intent opened the ninth.
Apart from that, however, the two batters did very little to exert pressure on the Indian spinners. Not until the 25th over, after the partnership of 36 runs in 88 balls had been broken, did the next boundary arrive. Maybe Zimbabwe refrained from using strokeplay after Hamilton Masakadza’s unfortunate events. In the sixth over, he unleashed a reckless swipe that fell to Rahul at first slip.
In the subsequent one, Sibanda may have been dismissed for a duck if Yuzvendra Chahal hadn’t grassed a skier at midwicket. Concerned by the quantity of opportunities India was producing, Zimbabwe essentially collapsed throughout the initial portion of their innings. However, that suited India’s interests. Chahal was bowling with a tremendous lot of control and cunning, while Axar was finishing an over in about sixty seconds.
He varied his length and tempo, but never his line, which remained solidly in the middle. He threw the ball high, but the spin he used made sure it would always drop short of the batsman’s front foot. In this way, Sibanda was worked over; sucked forward and tempted to toy with the closed face due to the slide inward. Chahal finished the catch after taking the lead edge.
In the 35th over, Bumrah dismissed Mutumbami, the final specialist batsmen, with another ball that straightened off the seam. Before the lunch break, the tailenders Donald Tiripano, Neville Madziva, and Tawanda Mupariwa returned to the field for the second inning after failing to put up much of a fight.
Match details are listed below.
Timings: 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT)
Who won the toss: Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat first
Venue: Harare Sports Club
Teams
India 1 KL Rahul/Mandeep Singh, 2 & 3 Karun Nair/Ambati Rayudu/Faiz Fazal, 4 Manish Pandey, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Kedar Jadhav, 7 Axar Patel/Jayant Yadav, 8 Dhawal Kulkarni, 9 Yuzvendra Chahal, 10 Jasprit Bumrah/Rishi Dhawan, 11 Barinder Sran/Jaydev Unadkat.
Zimbabwe 1 Hamilton Masakadza, 2 Chamu Chibhabha, 3 Peter Moor, 4 Vusi Sibanda, 5 Sean Williams/Craig Ervine/Timycen Maruma, 6 Sikandar Raza, 7 Elton Chigumbura, 8 Richmond Mutumbami (wk), 9 Graeme Cremer (capt), 10 Tendai Chatara, 11 Taurai Muzarabani.
One-Day International | 2016 season
Played at Harare Sports Club
15-6-2016 (50-over match)
Umpires – IJ Gould and TJ Matibiri
TV umpire – L Rusere
Match referee – RB Richardson
Reserve umpire – O Chirombe
