Zimbabwe 141 for 7 (Munyonga 43*, Young 4-24) Beat Ireland 8 for 137 (Tucker 46, Gwandu 3-24) by three wickets
His victory with four balls was now washed the first T20i with a 1-0 lead in the three-game series to Zimbabwe and the third encounter remains on 25 February.
Young changes the right replacement
Quickly was not originally in the T20i squad, but the injured Mark was brought late to replace the adire. Adair was the best bowler in Odis, Ireland, but the new-ball spell of Young was made for his absence.
His first ball of the evening was a short ball that Zimbabwe’s opener Tadivashe Marumani pulled half-incompleteness towards the short fine leg. After three balls, he dug one and one and took the edge of Vesley Madhavre to Paul Sterling. In the next over, Brian Bennett cut one at a deep backward point and Ireland had an early lead.
Later, when Ireland was desperate for one wicket, Tushinga Museukwa’s dismissal that seemed an important point in the game left it with a figure of 4 for 24.
Zimbabwe’s lower-medium order steps up
With early collapse, Raza and Berl had the right batsman to follow the experienced pair. Ireland put the pressure up, but Raza excluded it with only two fours in his 27 balls. He could tolerate with a middleing target.
At a strike rate of 135, Ber 27 kept Zimbabwe’s innings in touch with the rate. Ireland, however, dismissed both of them in quick succession with Berl, leaving back the Harry Tector with Berl and Raza dropped the neck for a long time, which was left for 5 at 64 at 64 .
Munyonga, however, showed great maturity in navigating a difficult period by contributing to the sixth-wicket stand of 33 runs with Muskiva (15) and one and 15 runs with Wellington Masakadza. Number 9 Richard Nagrawa hit two important fours in 19th position before Munyonga hit the victorious run with a thrashing through the cover.
Ireland stutter after rain break
After losing Sterling early, another opener Lorcan Tucker (46) organized the Fort in the company of No.3 Tractors (28) to raise the innings. The more entrepreneurs of both the tector, falling into the eighth place, fell into the Raza, trying to find a big shot, left Ireland for 2 at 59.
But the tucker and number 4 curtis camper failed to achieve speed like a sector, by adding only 40 runs in their 5.5 overs and shortly after the rain break, their dismissal when the bowlers of Zimbabwear tightened things Gave.
Ashirwad Mujarabani, Trevor Gwandu and Raza all left for less than six. The dismissal of Gwandu’s Tucker, George Docarel and Neil Rock discovered a major Utkarsh of Ireland, while Raza broke two dangerous partnerships. Ireland scored only 16 runs in the last three overs and finished down on the bottom 137 for 8.
Sreshth Shah is a sub-editor in Espncricinfo. @Sreshthx
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