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Indian team with the trophy.
Team India also defeated Zimbabwe in the 5th T20 played at Harare grounds on Sunday. Also won the 5-match T-20 series 4-1.
In the 5th T20, Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza won the toss and put India to bat. Sanju Samson scored a fifty and made a partnership of 65 runs with Riyan Parag. Shivam Dubey hit fours and sixes in the death overs and took the team’s score to 167 runs.
Mukesh Kumar and Shivam Dubey troubled Zimbabwe while chasing 168 runs. Mukesh took 4 wickets. Zimbabwe team was all out for 125 runs in 18.3 overs.
Samson- Ryan partnership
Indian team had lost 3 wickets for 40 runs in 6 overs of powerplay. After this Sanju and Ryan took over the innings. Together they added 65 runs. In this partnership, Sanju contributed 40 runs and Ryan contributed 22 runs. Both of them batted aggressively and did not allow any Zimbabwean bowler to survive. Due to this partnership, India gave a target of 168 runs to Zimbabwe.
Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag together added 65 runs.
Match analysis in 5 points…
1. Match Winner – Player of the Match
Shivam Dubey hit fours and sixes in the death overs while batting. The score crossed 150 by hitting 3 consecutive boundaries in the 19th over. During bowling, runs were not allowed in the middle overs. Took the wickets of Dion Mayers and Jonathan Campbell. He also ran out captain Sikandar Raza. He was chosen player of the match for this performance.
Player of the Series
Washington Sundar was adjudged Man of the Series for his excellent performance throughout the series. He got batting in only 2 matches in the 5 match series. In which he scored 28 runs. 27 runs scored in the first T20 was his best score. Sundar won the series for India by taking wickets at important moments. He took 8 wickets in the series. In which his best was 3 wickets for 15 runs. In today’s match, he took 1 wicket for 7 runs in 2 overs.
2. Hero of victory
Mukesh Kumar
Zimbabwe was chasing the target of 168, but it was not a very big score. Mukesh Kumar, who came with the first over, clean bowled Vesle Madhavare. In his next over he took the wicket of Brian Bennett. He took 2 wickets in the 19th over. Mukesh made the start difficult for Zimbabwe and did not allow the tailenders to survive.
sanju samson
When Sanju came to the crease, the wickets of captain Shubhman, Yashasvi and Abhishek had fallen. The score was only 40 runs. Sanju played an inning of 58 runs in 45 balls. He hit 4 sixes and one four in the innings. The team got through the trouble. He made a partnership of 65 runs with Riyan Parag (22 runs). Gave the team a platform to score well.
3. Turning Point
The breakdown of Tadivanashe Marumani and Dion Myers’ partnership
Zimbabwe’s opener Tadivanashe Marumani was batting brilliantly. He scored 47 runs against India’s score of 44 in the powerplay with the help of Dion Myers. There was a partnership of 44 runs between the two on 36 balls. At one time it seemed that Zimbabwe would cause a major upset in the match. But Washington Sundar gave out Tadivanashe Marumani LBW for 27 runs.
4. Reasons for defeat-
bad fielding
Blessing Muzarabani was bowling brilliantly in his first over. He almost took the wicket of in-form Abhishek Sharma. But here Brian Bennett standing at point dropped the catch. Something similar happened with Shubman Gill, his catch was dropped by Jonathan Campbell at third man. Zimbabwe’s ground fielding was also poor and on many occasions Indian players converted singles into doubles.
Top order failed and Sikandar run out
Zimbabwe’s opener Wesley Madhavare was again dismissed by Mukesh Kumar today. He put Zimbabwe on the back foot by taking 2 wickets in 2 overs. He dismissed Madhavare for zero and Brian Bennett for 10 runs. Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza bowled brilliantly today. But the team was expecting runs from his bat today. Sikandar Raza swept the ball of Ravi Bishnoi in the 14th over. But Campbell, standing on non-strike, refused to take runs. Shivam Dubey, standing at fine leg, made a direct hit and Raza was run out.
5. Fighter of the Match
Dion Myers
Dion Myers scored the highest 34 runs for Zimbabwe. Apart from Marumani, no one supported him from the other end. Myers scored 34 runs in his innings. He hit 4 fours and 1 six in the innings.
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