Zimbabwe takes comfortably the first ODI by 7 wickets. Though the openers started slow, Ervine and Chakabva cruised through the chase comfortable before both losing their wickets at the end. T Chatara is the man of the match for his 3 for 25 in his 10. That will be all for today, see you on friday for the second match. Cheers

23.1

Imran Haider to Maruma, 3 runs, full, on leg, Muruma runs down the track, punches this to the left of mid wicket and came back for the third run.

END OF OVER:
23 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | ZIM: 108/3 (3 runs required from 27 overs, RR: 4.69, RRR: 0.11)

Timycen Maruma1 (1b)
Sean Williams5 (3b)

Rohan Mustafa4-0-18-1
Imran Haider3-0-28-1

22.6

Rohan Mustafa to Maruma, 1 run, full, on leg, Maruma leans forwar and drives to long on

Maruma comes in

22.5

Rohan Mustafa to Ervine, OUT, length, on leg, Ervine clears his front foot but mistimes this to long on who runs forward and takes the catch

CR Ervine c Muhammad Usman b Rohan Mustafa 51 (59m 46b 4x4 2x6) SR: 110.86

22.4

Rohan Mustafa to Ervine, no run, comes well forward, defends

22.3

Rohan Mustafa to Ervine, no run, leans forward, pushes to the leg side

22.2

Rohan Mustafa to Ervine, no run,

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UAE coach Dougie Brown makes adapting to conditions a priority for rest of series
The UAE coach felt his side had had to deal with 'really juicy' conditions in the first ODI, but wanted his batsmen to find ways to deal with similar challenges in the future
Tendai Chatara and Craig Ervine lead Zimbabwe into 1-0 lead
UAE were bowled out for 110 in the first match of their maiden ODI tour of a Full Member nation

Zimbabwe INNINGS		R	B
SF Mire	lbw	11	25
RW Chakabva	bowled	38	63
CR Ervine	caught	51	46
SC Williams	not out	5	3
T Maruma	not out	4	2
PJ Moor
Sikandar Raza
DT Tiripano
KM Jarvis
B Mavuta
TL Chatara
EXTRAS	(lb 1, w 1)
TOTAL	111 (3 wkts; 23.1 ovs)

U.A.E. BOWLING	O	M	R	W	Econ
Mohammad Naveed	5.0	1	15	0	3.00
Qadeer Ahmed	5.0	0	16	1	3.20
Sultan Ahmed	6.0	0	30	0	5.00
Rohan Mustafa	4.0	0	18	1	4.50
Imran Haider	3.1	0	31	1	9.78	(1w)

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	21	SF Mire	RW Chakabva
2nd	80	CR Ervine	RW Chakabva
3rd	6	CR Ervine	SC Williams
4th	4	SC Williams	T Maruma

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 110(44.5 OVERS)

ZIMBABWE 111/3(23.1 OVERS)

END OF OVER:23 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | ZIM: 108/3 (3 runs required from 27 overs, RR: 4.69, RRR: 0.11)

UAE coach Dougie Brown makes adapting to conditions a priority for rest of series

Tendai Chatara and Craig Ervine lead Zimbabwe into 1-0 lead

END OF OVER:
23 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | ZIM: 108/3 (3 runs required from 27 overs, RR: 4.69, RRR: 0.11)