Zimbabwe 141 for 7 (Munyonga 43*, young 4-24) Beat Ireland 137 for 8 (Tucker 46, Gwandu 3-24) by three wickets
His victory with four balls to share now gives Zimbabwe an advantage of 1-0 impregnable in the three games series with the first washing T20i and the third match remains on February 25.
Young becomes perfect replacement
The fast was not in the T20I team originally, but brought late to replace the injured adoir brand. Adair had been the best Bowling player in Ireland in Los Odi, but Young’s New-Ball spell compensated for his absence.
His first ball of the night was a short ball that Zimbabwe’s opener Tadiwanashe Marumani struggled halfway towards a short and fine leg. Three balls later, he dug another and took Wessly Madhevere the outer edge of Paul Stirling. Then, Brian Bennett cut one to one point back and Ireland had an early advantage.
Later, when Ireland was desperate by a wickt, his dismissal of Tashinga Musekiwa so it seemed to be a crucial point in the game left him with figures of 4 by 24.
Zimbabwe’s lowest average order rises to
With the early collapse, the experienced race and mocking were the perfect batters to follow. Ireland kept the pressure, but race took it with only two four in its 27 balls 22. Luxury could afford with an average objective.
The 27 of Burl at a 135 strike rate kept Zimbabwe’s inputs in contact with the rate. However, Ireland dismissed both in rapid succession with Burl behind Harry Tector and race hitting Long Off’s throat to leave Zimbabwe at 64 by 5.
However, Munyonga showed great maturity in the navigation of a difficult period when contributing to the sixth 33 -racing wickt position with musekiwa (15) and 15 other races with Wellington Masakadza. No. 9 Richard Ngarava hit two four crucial at the end of 19 on Young before Munyonga hit the winning races with a beating through the covers.
Irish stutter after rain
After losing early Stirling, the other opener Lorcan Tucker (46) kept strong in the company of Tector No. 3 (28) to lift the tickets. The Tector, the most entrepreneur of the two, fell in the eighth to race trying to find great shot, leaving Ireland at 59 by 2.
But Tucker and No. 4 Curtis Campher failed .
Blessed to Muzarabani, Trevor Gwandu and race were less than six and more. Gwandu’s layoffs to Tucker, George Dockrell and Neil Rock paralyzed the search for Ireland of a great floriture, while Raza broke two dangerous associations. Ireland scored only 16 in the last three overs to finish in 137 below the torque for 8.
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