New Delhi: The Indian team has taken a 2-1 lead in the series by winning the third match of the 5-match T20 series against Zimbabwe by 23 runs. In the third T20 match played at Harare Sports Club Ground, Team India won the toss and batted first and scored 182 runs in 20 overs on the basis of captain Shubman Gill’s half-century innings.
On the other hand, Zimbabwe’s team, which came out to chase the target, could only score 159 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Washington Sundar took the maximum 3 wickets in bowling for Team India.
IND vs ZIM: Washington’s stellar bowling
Zimbabwe had a very bad start while chasing the target of 183 runs given by India. The team lost its first 3 wickets at a score of 19.
At the end of the first 6 overs, Zimbabwe’s score was 37 runs. After this, by the score of 39, half the team had returned to the pavilion.
From here, Zimbabwe’s innings was taken over by Dion Myers and Clive Madande and both of them shared a 77-run partnership in 57 balls for the sixth wicket. Madande became the victim of Washington Sundar after scoring 37 runs in 26 balls in this match.
Myers scored the first half-century of his career
Dion Myers continued to score runs at a fast pace from one end but he could not succeed in leading the team to victory. Myers also scored the first half-century of his T20 International career in this match.
He scored 65 runs in 49 balls. Washington Sundar was the best bowler from the Indian team. He took 3 wickets for 15 runs in his 4 overs. Apart from this, Avesh Khan took 2 wickets while Khalil Ahmed also took 1 wicket.
Talking about the Indian team’s innings, in this match, captain Shubman Gill scored 66 runs in 49 balls, while Ruturaj Gaikwad also scored 49 runs in 28 balls.
Apart from this, Yashasvi Jaiswal also contributed 36 runs. Sikandar Raza and Blessing Mujarbani took 2-2 wickets in bowling for Zimbabwe.
