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India reason nerves to corner out Zimbabwe in nail-biter and win T20I series
- Updated: June 22, 2016
Harare: India overcame a last-minute blues to trill Zimbabwe by 3 runs in a third and final T20 International and slot a array 2-1 during a Harare Sports Club here on Wednesday.
India’s immature bowling section put on a common bid to shorten a hosts to 135/8 after wicketkeeper-batsman Kedar Jadhav’s half century pushed a visitors to 138/6 in their stipulated 20 overs.
Indian group celebrates with Barinder Sran after feat in a third and final T20 cricket compare vs Zimbabwe in a Prayag Cup during Harare Sports Club, on Wednesday in Zimbabwe. Pic/AFP
Despite losing opener Chamu Chibhabha (5) cheaply, Zimbabwe got off to a certain start with Hamilton Masakadza (15) and Vusi Sibanda (28) putting on 40 runs for a second wicket to take Zimbabwe past a 50-run symbol in a eighth over.
With a hosts in full flow, left-arm spinner Axar Patel managed to mangle a partnership by foxing Masakadza rectilinear in front while center pacer Dhawal Kulkarni packaged behind Sibanda shortly after. Sibanda bloody 5 fours in his 23-ball knock.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Peter Moor (26) and Malcolm Waller (10) afterwards attempted to brace a innings with a 26-run mount for a fourth wicket. Moor was during his aggressive best during his 21-ball hit as he beaten leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for 3 sixes before descending to a same bowler.
Moor’s exclusion brought in former skipper Elton Chigumbura, who combined 18 runs with Waller to move adult a 100 in a 17th over before Kulkarni discharged Waller.
With Zimbabwe wanting 35 off 17 balls, immature Timycen Maruma (23) assimilated Chigumbura and a twin roughly took a compare divided from a Indians with a 31-run seventh wicket mount before left-arm seamer Barinder Sran managed to shorten them.
For a visitors, center pacers Sran and Kulkarni took dual wickets any while Patel and Chahal got one apiece.
Earlier, Jadhav’s 42-ball 58 propelled India from a wily conditions after a visitors were sent in to bat. Under vigour after a batting fall of sorts, a Maharashtra wicketkeeper-batsman resurrected a innings with a daring knock.
Fresh from a 10-wicket mauling of a hosts in a second match, India found themselves in a symbol of worry after losing in-form opener Mandeep Singh (4) low while Lokesh Rahul (22) and Manish Pandey over off uninterrupted balls.
Rahul’s 20-ball hit was laced with 3 fours and a 6 before a right-hander was bowled by Neville Madziva to revoke India to 27/2 while Pandey assimilated him a subsequent ball, interjection to a shining chuck during a stumps from Elton Chigumbura.
The disaster of a tip sequence supposing plenty event to a center sequence batsmen comprising Ambati Rayudu, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Jadhav.
Rayudu, who had a successful run in a One-Day International (ODI) series, scored a 26-ball 20 though some-more importantly chipped in with Jadhav for a 49-run mount for a fourth wicket. The twin took India past a 50-run symbol in a 10th over.
But Dhoni’s form with a willow continued to dried him with a Ranchi stumper descending for a 13-ball nine.
Jadhav afterwards interconnected with left-arm spinner Axar Patel (18) to put on 29 runs for a sixth wicket as India reached a triple total in a 18th over.
In his try to accelerate a scoring, Jadhav who beaten Tendai Chatara for dual uninterrupted fours and a 6 fell only after reaching his half-century. His hit was laced with 7 bounds and a six.
Patel, who struck a 6 off a penultimate round of a innings, combined 16 runs with Dhawal Kulkarni (1) for a seventh wicket to take India to some arrange of respectability.
For Zimbabwe, center pacer Donald Tiripano was a collect of a bowlers with 3 scalps while Madziva and skipper Graeme Cremer chipped in with one wicket apiece.
Sran was adjudged a man-of-the-series for his 6 wickets in a array while Jadhav bagged a man-of-the-match endowment for his daring half century.