Player of the Match
Player of the Match
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    3.3 Munyonga pulls off a stunner at deep square leg to get the prize wicket. Another slower ball from Evans, back of a length and on the stumps. Nissanka swings across the line and gets a decent connection, but he has not got the elevation to hit a six, and he hasn't placed it well enough. Munyonga runs in, dives forward and catches it low to the ground will springing forward. This is a big blow 17/2
    1.1 slashes it away straight down the throat of deep third. This was a wide ball, but a bouncer that gets up to about chest-high. Kusal Mendis tries to slap that over the offside, but only gets a toe-end to the ball, and it floats high, and deep third swallows it about 10 metres in from the rope 4/1
    5.4 send's Mishara's off stump flying with a yorker! Zimbabwe are all over Sri Lanka here. This was just full and straight from around the wicket. Mishara tried to hit it down the ground but misjudged the pace, I think. It was through him before the bat came down 37/4
    4.5 mis-hit to mid off, and Sri Lanka are struggling now. This was length on about off stump. Nuwanidu tried to lift this through midwicket, but gets it off the outside half of the bat and it loops up over the bowler's head. Mid off runs to his right and gets under the chance with a slide. 24/3
    13.3 bowled! Another one falls in quick succession. This is a length ball speared in towards off stump from around the wicket, sliding on with the arm. Asalanka tries to play a cheeky late cut to deflect it fine of short third, but he misses. Raza hits the top of off. 66/7
    6.5 Kamindu goes too. It wasn't the biggest lbw appeal from Raza, but the umpire was quick to give it out. This was tossed up and turning, pitching on off from around the wicket, straightening and beating Kamindu's attempted nudge to the legside. It hit him in front of middle and off and was probably going on to clip off stump. Can't really complain much about that decision even if there's no DRS this series. 38/5
    12.6 squirted striaght to short third, where Maposa takes another fantastic catch. This was full and fast outside off, Shanaka chops down on it and it goes off the top edge quickly. Maposa leaps to his left and snatches it out of the air. He was standing quite fine, but he still had some distance to make. Zimbabwe's catching has really helped this Lanka collapse along. There's some doubt about whether Williams had. his foot behind the line, but he's been given out 64/6
    17.1 back of a length ball on the stumps, flicked towards midwicket and oh no there's a mix up attempting the second, and Sri Lanka lose their last recognised batter. Hemantha turned immediately for the second and was haring back to the non-striker's. Theekshana didn't think he could make it though, and turned his partner back. Just much, much too late. Hemantha was many metres from the crease when the throw came in to the striker's end. Good work from Burl in the deep. 79/9
    13.5 that's pretty plumb! The umpire thinks for barely a second before raising that finger. This was full , tossed up on the stumps. Chameera gets low to sweep but is beaten in the flight. He is hit in front of middle and off by an off break that will probably crash into leg. 66/8
    17.4 Raza swallows the catch in the infield to close up an innings which Zimbabwe have dominated. This is a back of a length ball on about off stump. Theekshana tries to clobber that to leg, but it comes off his leading edge, goes hiiigh in the air, and Raza settles under it around cover. 80/10
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    6 (b 3, lb 2, nb 1)
    TOTAL
    80 all out (17.4 Overs, RR: 4.52)
    Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Kusal Mendis, 1.1 ov), 2-17 (Pathum Nissanka, 3.3 ov), 3-24 (Nuwanidu Fernando, 4.5 ov), 4-37 (Kamil Mishara, 5.4 ov), 5-38 (Kamindu Mendis, 6.5 ov), 6-64 (Dasun Shanaka, 12.6 ov), 7-66 (Charith Asalanka, 13.3 ov), 8-66 (Dushmantha Chameera, 13.5 ov), 9-79 (Dushan Hemantha, 17.1 ov), 10-80 (Maheesh Theekshana, 17.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    R Ngarava201105.561000
    B Muzarabani301424.66102000
    B Evans2.401535.62113001
    Sikandar Raza401132.75140000
    TT Maposa20703.550000
    SC Williams401714.2570000
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    9.3 return catch and that's a good reflex take from Binura, who snatches it to his right, at about waist height. That was a length ball on the stumps, and may have stuck in the pitch just a touch longer than usual. Bennett was early with his shot as he tried to stab this down the ground, and wound up just popping it up 53/4
    3.2 top edge, and Kusal Mendis gets under it with the gloves. Chameera's good tour continues. This was a length ball angled across the leftie, in the channel. Marumani tried to drag it through midwicket, but it's not quite short enough for that. Swirls high in the air, but Kusal gobbles it up with ease 20/1
    3.4 sends off stump on a trip. The around the wicket angle works. This is a length ball speared in from wide of the crease. Williams is both late on the shot and playing down the wrong angle. The stump comes out of the ground and bounces away 20/2
    5.4 Chameera is doing his best to turn this into a match! Raza has dragged on. This was juuuust short of a length, quite wide of off. Raza tries to club that to the legside, but might have been better trying to slash that through off. Ends up inside-edging it into off stump 27/3
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    11.2 plumb. That is a great faster delivery from Theekshana, who pitches it on off, straightens it (carrom ball I think) and Munyonga plays down the wrong line. That would have crashed into middle and off. The umpire's finger is up almost before the bowler has turned around to appeal 61/5
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    TOTAL
    84/5 (14.2 Overs, RR: 5.86)
    Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Tadiwanashe Marumani, 3.2 ov), 2-20 (Sean Williams, 3.4 ov), 3-27 (Sikandar Raza, 5.4 ov), 4-53 (Brian Bennett, 9.3 ov), 5-61 (Tony Munyonga, 11.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    B Fernando301414.66101010
    M Theekshana40281793000
    PVD Chameera401934.75142010
    MADI Hemantha3.202306.973000

Match Notes

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st20T MarumaniBJ Bennett
2nd0SC WilliamsBJ Bennett
3rd7Sikandar RazaBJ Bennett
4th26RP BurlBJ Bennett
5th8RP BurlT Munyonga
6th23RP BurlT Musekiwa