India defeated Zimbabwe by 71 runs of their T20 World Cup encounter on the prestigious Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on Sunday and completed because the winners of Group 2. They will play the runners-up of Group 1 England within the semi-finals subsequent Thursday.
Chasing a goal of 187 runs, Zimbabwe had been in hassle once they misplaced opener Wesley Madhevere on the primary ball of the innings. Wicketkeeper Regis Chakabwa additionally adopted go well with after being bowled by Arshdeep Singh. Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burle tried to make sure the innings, however had been later dismissed for 30 by Ravichandran Ashwin. The spinner completed with figures of three/22.
Zimbabwe then continued to lose wickets at common intervals because the Indian bowlers had a floor day in between.
Batting first, Suryakumar Yadav reaffirmed his standing because the world’s primary T20 batsman to take India to 186 for 5 of their closing T20 World Cup group league sport towards Zimbabwe on Sunday. Surya performed an unbeaten 55 off 24 balls with the assistance of six fours and 4 sixes. 79 runs got here within the final 5 overs and most of them had been scored by the Mumbaikar.
Zimbabwe’s sluggish bowlers – left-arm spinner Wellington Masakadza (0/12 in 2 overs), Sikandar Raza (1/18 in 3 overs) and Sean Williams (2/9 in 2 overs) did an incredible job between 7 and 15 overs. did. He actually bottled up Virat Kohli (26 off 25 balls).
But Suriya and Hardik Pandya (18 off 18 balls) added 65 runs in simply 5.5 overs to negate the nice work achieved by the slower bowlers from Craig Ervine.
(with PTI inputs)
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
