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Men’s T20: India beat Zimbabwe by 42 runs in fifth and final T20 at Harare: Clinch series 4-1

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Gill collects the trophy and joins his team-mates. They scream in joy as they pose with the CHAMPIONS hoarding. India 4 – 1 Zimbabwe. After a below-par batting performance in the opening T20I, this young team bounced back in style to win four on the bounce. The inexperienced Zimbabweans made a lot of fielding errors and their batsmen failed to put the Indian bowlers under pressure.

Curtains down on this five-match T20 series. India’s next assignment is against Sri Lanka away from home for three T20Is followed by three ODIs. Zimbabwe, on the other hand, will be touring Ireland for a one-off Test match in Belfast. Until next time, it’s goodbye from all of us down here.

Another convincing win for the visitors. After losing their top three inside the powerplay, they managed to post 167 on the board, thanks to Samson’s half-century and cameos from Dube and Rinku. In reply, Zimbabwe lost two quick wickets as Mukesh Kumar struck twice in two overs with the new ball. He cleaned up Myers as well in his 3rd over but that turned out to be a front foot no-ball.

Myers and Marumani took the attack to Bishnoi but the left-handed openers was trapped lbw by Washington Sundar. Even though the asking rate was increasing, Zimbabwe were in the hunt at the halfway stage. But the hosts lost a flurry of wickets as they slipped from 85/3 to 94/7 which also included Raza’s run-out. Faraz Akram played a little gem but his 13-ball 27 only helped in Zimbabwe reducing their margin of defeat. Stick around for the presentations….

Shubman Gill: Excellent series. The hunger that we showed after the first loss was phenomenal to watch. Lot of the players had long flights, they weren’t used to the conditions. The way they adapted was remarkable. I have been there (Sri Lanka) once for Asia Cup, looking forward to go there and performing.

Sikandar Raza: I thought Blessing bowled well the whole series. Batting-wise, we are still below-par, but we are starting to rectify the problems at the top. You are going to have bad games here and there. The grey area for me will remain our attitude in the field, we are still making a lot of mistakes, that’s controllable, we are going to keep working hard and hopefully keep getting better.

It was unfortunate that Richie (Ngarava) wasn’t fit at the start of the series. Had he been declared fit, he was gonna play all the games. To have him fit is certainly a blessing because we all know his quality. To have Richie and Blessing … every time I was in trouble I looked up to them and they did the job for the team, really happy for those two boys.

My workload needs to be managed. I haven’t played any four-day cricket in the last two years post my surgeries. My shoulder isn’t 100%, I don’t want to be a guy who just gets a jersey. I need to go back, respect my domestic cricket and also respect my domestic cricketers who have put a lot of runs. I will go back to play domestic cricket and test my own fitness.

I am still available for Test match cricket but at this point of time, I am not because I haven’t played a lot of four-day cricket. I’ll leave for Manchester for The Hundred in a few days time, I am looking forward to that.

Washington Sundar | Player of the Series: Good to have finished with a win. After the first game, the conditions were similar to South Africa getting that extra bounce and extra pace. We had enough time to get a lot of information. Lot of takeaways and learnings, I bowled a lot in this series. We had a lot of success as a team.

Shivam Dube | Player of the Match: It’s always a special thing to contribute in both departments. Took some wickets, very happy. In T20s, you can struggle but one shot and you can get back. The ground is big, we enjoy playing here, the atmosphere and the people are amazing.

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