Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

Darwish Rasooli
Darwish Rasooli
58(42) 6x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 16 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
8 2 5 0 10 11 14 8
Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza
35(30) 2x4 - 1x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 7 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
9 1 3 1 4 1 13 3

Best performances - Bowlers

Naveen-ul-Haq
Naveen-ul-Haq
O4
M0
R19
W3
Eco4.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan
O4
M0
R20
W3
Eco5.00
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
2W

Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

5:11pm That will be all from us for this game. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and look forward to having your company for all the cricket lined up in the next few days. Until next time, this is goodbye from all of us!

Darwish Rasooli is the Player of the Match for his 42-ball 58, which was also his maiden T20I fifty!

Rashid Khan, Afghanistan captain: The area we are still struggling is the top order. The way Darwish played, it was very impressive. We were struggling to find someone in that position, so very happy. The way the guys bowled, it was very impressive. We missed our lines and lengths in the last game. It was about keeping it simple, hitting the right areas and then seeing what would happen (today). It is a big ground to one side and you have to adjust yourself. Not many sixes were hit today and the other day as well. It is about how you play more along the ground and play more cricketing shots. It is not impossible to score more runs at the end but at the start, you have to adapt and spend some tough time. Then, it gets easier. We are always searching for someone who bats at four. The target is for the next World Cup. Number three-four - that is the area we are looking at. The good thing is he (Rasooli) has done well (in the Emerging players tournament). The way he was looking good in the nets was impressive and I was waiting for him to take that into the game.

Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe captain: (On what went wrong) The batting. Seems to be our Achilles heel. Still struggling to score that total. Has been a problem for some time. There is quality in the dressing room and I am backing the boys to do the job, but certainly painful to see us failing to do the job. Our openers were starting to find a bit of a pattern on how to go about it. Matter of time before these three (the top three of Bennett, Marumani and Myers) win us a game on their own. We were in the game at (40 for two) but could not capitalize after the powerplay. Our bowling and fielding was fantastic. It was a better wicket than yesterday, and we were confident we could get it (the chase) done. That is why this (defeat) hurts. These guys (Afghanistan) are semi-finalists of the T20 World Cup. If you want to beat them, you have to beat them in all departments. We will find character and courage in the dressing room, which we sure will have lots of, to beat them (in all departments).

4:52pm A fairly one-sided game in the end. At the half-way stage, it seemed Afghanistan had enough and they bowled like a team that felt so too. Naveen picked up Marumani early, with Myers also perishing inside the powerplay. Madhevere could not get going either and once Afghanistan introduced spin in tandem, the writing was on the wall for the hosts. Raza waged a lone battle but the runs he scored only acted as consolation rather than as a catalyst for a turnaround.

As for the wickets, Rashid and Naveen bagged three apiece. Mujeeb also bowled much better than Wednesday, with Fareed and Omarzai chipping in whenever called upon, ensuring that Afghanistan, after a blip two days ago, are now back on track.

17.4
W
Fareed Ahmad to Muzarabani, OUT, that will be that! Afghanistan level the series and we are going into a decider! Slanted in full on middle adn off. Muzarabani swings for the hills and misses the ball by a massive margin. The ball keeps coming in with the angle and knocks back leg stump. A fitting image for what has been a dominant display and Afghanistan win by 50 runs!

B Muzarabani b Fareed Ahmad 1 (10m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

17.3
1
Fareed Ahmad to Gwandu, 1 run, very full just outside off. Gwandu digs it out towards mid off
17.2
0
Fareed Ahmad to Gwandu, no run, slower ball dangled full on leg stump. Gwandu does not pick it and somehow plays inside the line. The ball breezes past the outside edge and misses leg stump by a whisker
17.1
1
Fareed Ahmad to Muzarabani, 1 run, full just outside off. Muzarabani gets his front foot out of the way and plays the perfect straight drive. Back past the bowler for a single

Fareed to bowl his last

END OF OVER:
17 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | ZIM: 101/9 (53 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 5.94, RRR: 17.66)

  • Trevor Gwandu0 (3b)
  • Blessing Muzarabani0 (1b)
  • Naveen-ul-Haq4-0-19-3
  • Rashid Khan4-0-20-3
16.6
0
Naveen-ul-Haq to Gwandu, no run, right up in the blockhole on off. Gwandu gets his bat down in time and keeps it out

Shane: "The guy who predicted ZIM was gonna get bundled below 100 was so close, I say moral victory for him!"

16.5
0
Naveen-ul-Haq to Gwandu, no run, slower ball on a full length outside off. Gwandu has no clue about it and beats him on the inside as it grips in the surface and spins back in

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st19T MarumaniBJ Bennett
2nd6D MyersBJ Bennett
3rd15W MadhevereBJ Bennett
4th9Sikandar RazaBJ Bennett
5th8Sikandar RazaRP Burl
6th30Sikandar RazaT Musekiwa
7th5Sikandar RazaWP Masakadza
8th3Sikandar RazaR Ngarava
9th6Sikandar RazaB Muzarabani
10th2B MuzarabaniT Gwandu