Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
31 | 5 Runs 2 Wkts | AUS: 141/10 | RR: 4.54

  • Adam Zampa1 (6b)
  • Ryan Burl3-0-10-5
  • Sikandar Raza4-0-15-0

11.56am A five-for in just 18 deliveries, and Ryan Burl leads the team off the ground with the ball held high in his hand. Australia were going to be bowled out soon once Warner fell, but Burl's wickets - which included Warner - made sure it didn't take much time. Australia didn't look like putting up a decent score at all, except if Warner was going to take them all the way. Finch's poor form has continued, and Zimbabwe's disciplined and spirited bowling show made sure wickets fell regularly even though Warner attacked and attacked especially after the first few overs. Some gave their wicket away, some fell to good deliveries...is this Australia's wake-up call for the middle and lower order?

Warner was miles ahead of his team-mates though. He respected the slightly moving and bouncing ball, pounced on the short and full balls, and counterattacked despite the falling wickets otherwise Australia wouldn't have reached even the 30th over today. He has made a record for himself too, scoring 66.67% of Australia's total today, the second-highest ever in ODIs, just behind Sir Viv.

Gaurav Sundararaman tells me Chaminda Vaas took 16 balls for a five-for, when he started the game with a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the 2003 World Cup. So Burl's feat today could be the second-best, but we'll confirm that soon.

30.6
W
Burl to Hazlewood, OUT, loud appeal for caught behind but the umpire doesn't think it's out. They review again. Tossed up well outside off, Hazlewood leans forward and into the ball with his bat on the fifth stump line, nothing on UltraEdge but there's a spike on Snicko and that's a fifth for Ryan Burl

JR Hazlewood c †Chakabva b Burl 0 (5m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

30.5
1
Burl to Zampa, 1 run, turning in towards middle and leg, tucked to midwicket for one
30.5
4w
Burl to Hazlewood, 4 wides, much straighter towards middle and leg, and Hazlewood tickles it very fine off his pads. Oh hang on, no bat or pad there, it just turned past the bat and pad, and then the keeper
30.4
0
Burl to Hazlewood, no run, pretty wide outside off to Hazlewood, and he defends it into the off side
30.3
W
Burl to Starc, OUT, right through him and Burl has his fourth! Tossed up from Burl, it has some dip as well and sneaks under the turning bat to nearly york Start and then knock over top of middle stump, with a slight deflection off the back pad

MA Starc b Burl 2 (16m 6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

30.2
0
Burl to Starc, no run, punches into the off side and a diving cover stops the single
30.1
0
Burl to Starc, no run, he stays back and defends the ball turning into him

Thanks Gnasher. Burl continues

END OF OVER:
30 | 1 Run | AUS: 136/8 | RR: 4.53

  • Adam Zampa0 (5b)
  • Mitchell Starc2 (3b)
  • Sikandar Raza4-0-15-0
  • Ryan Burl2-0-5-3

I'll now hand back to Vishal for the rest of this innings

29.6
0
Sikandar Raza to Zampa, no run, flicked in the air but short of midwicket

Everyone had changed ends thinking it was the end of the over, but there's a ball left

29.5
0
Sikandar Raza to Zampa, no run, what a beauty! The carrom ball. Has he edged it? There's half an appeal then they call the review. He's missed that by miles
29.4
0
Sikandar Raza to Zampa, no run, flicked off the pads into midwicket
29.3
0
Sikandar Raza to Zampa, no run, pushed into the covers

Afeef: "Warner out in the 90s for the second time in the past 3 months. He was out on 99 against Sri Lanka in an ODI too. His last ODI century was back in January 2020 against India." That was also his last international hundred

29.2
0
Sikandar Raza to Zampa, no run, full and straight, defended
29.1
1
Sikandar Raza to Starc, 1 run, driven into the covers

Two wickets remaining, still 21 overs left

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st38T KaitanoT Marumani
2nd6W MadhevereT Marumani
3rd0SC WilliamsT Marumani
4th22Sikandar RazaT Marumani
5th11RW ChakabvaT Marumani
6th38RW ChakabvaT Munyonga
7th22RW ChakabvaRP Burl
8th5RW ChakabvaB Evans