Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

BJ Bennett
BJ Bennett
49(42) 5x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 20 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
4 2 1 1 13 16 2 10
Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza
47(32) 3x4 - 2x6
Control %77%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 14 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
0 5 1 6 5 3 2 25

Best performances - Bowlers

B Evans
B Evans
O4
M0
R9
W3
Eco2.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
PW Hasaranga
PW Hasaranga
O4
M0
R32
W3
Eco8
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

18.00 start, First Session 18.00-19.30, Interval 19.30-19.50, Second Session 19.50-21.20

Match days

20 November 2025 - night match (20-over match)

T20I debut

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Zimbabwe 2, Sri Lanka 0

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Danyal Rasool

Right, so that's that from the presentations, and from us here at ESPNcricinfo.Take care of yourselves, and we'll see you again on Saturday.

Sikandar comes up to have a chat with Ramiz Raja. "As a captain you have to lead from the front. Once you see the team captain do all the right things, I need to set an example. Once I can have good work ethics, I feel everyone will follow. You want to be there when the chips are down and be prepared to do the dirty work for the team. If I'm trying, I feel my team is going to try.

"We've put ourselves in a decent position to get to the final. We know how good Sri Lanka are. A bad game can happen and I'm glad it happened against us!"

"I think the intent was not there from the beginning," Dasun Shanaka says. Credits Zimbabwe for being much better. "We cannot accept with the players and experience we've got [this batting performance]. Hopefully we can turn this around quickly."

Sikandar Raza is the player of the match, like he always is.

Hamza: "Oh Sri Lanka!! Ahead of a home world cup... you lost to ZIM in two countries..."

Hamza: "Oh Sri Lanka!! Ahead of a home world cup... you lost to ZIM in two countries..."

So Zimbabwe are now top of the points table thanks to this huge win, and absolutely boss the net run rate. Sri Lanka will have to up their game to stand a chance of crawling back into finals contention

Thabani Ncube : "It's rare to see people thanking the guys who take their time to write the commentary for us Thank you guys. You're so good that we feel like we are in the stadium watching the game Without you the game is useless " Pleasure's all ours, Thabani

END OF OVER:
20 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | SL: 95/10 (68 runs required, RR: 4.75)

  • Nuwan Thushara1 (9b)
  • Brad Evans4-0-9-3
  • Richard Ngarava4-0-15-2
19.6
W
Evans to Theekshana, OUT, knocks his off stump out of the ground with an immaculate yorker! Zimbabwe have wiped the floor with Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi. From the moment Bennett blistered his way through the Powerplay to Raza's runs and Ngarava's excellence, it is the team in red that has lit up the game. It is a chastening defeat for Sri Lanka, who remain winless on this miserable, miserable tour of Pakistan so far. It's a 67-run win for Sikandar Raza's men, and it's comfortably Zimbabwe's biggest over Sri Lanka in this format. One of the great Zimbabwe T20I performances

M Theekshana b Evans 8 (22m 16b 1x4 0x6) SR: 50

Uzair jamal: "My question is at the point where the team has completely lost the game what do the batsman talk about in the middle because we see them talking alot"

19.5
0
Evans to Theekshana, no run, heaved to deep cover and he refuses another single
19.4
0
Evans to Theekshana, no run, whipped to fine leg and Theekshana decides he needs to keep the strike. I'm not sure why
19.3
1
Evans to Thushara, 1 run, hoicks it up into the air. Should have been an easy catch for Raza but he lost it on the lights. Then it should have been a run out, but Raza misses the direct hit. Zim still haven't closed it out
19.2
0
Evans to Thushara, no run, short ball, and Thushara took his eye off this completely, fending it straight up into the air. Fortunately for him, it plugged in no man's land

Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1BKG MendisP Nissanka
2nd5MDKJ PereraBKG Mendis
3rd19PBB RajapaksaBKG Mendis
4th4PBB RajapaksaMD Shanaka
5th23MD ShanakaPHKD Mendis
6th23MD ShanakaPW Hasaranga
7th5PVD ChameeraPW Hasaranga
8th2PW HasarangaM Theekshana
9th7M TheekshanaE Malinga
10th6N ThusharaM Theekshana