India defeated Zimbabwe by 5 wickets in the 2nd ODI match to seal the ODI series.
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The 2nd ODI Match of The India tour of Zimbabwe, 2022 played yesterday at Harare Sports Club, Harare, in which India defeated Zimbabwe by 5 wickets to seal the ODI series.
India won the toss and Invited Zimbabwe to bat first, Zimbabwe batted first, and started the inning very badly, Sean Williams played a brilliant inning of 42 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in 42 balls, and Ryan Burl played a very brilliant unbeaten inning of 39 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in 39 balls, Sikandar Raza scored 16 runs in 31 balls, Innocent Kaia 16 runs in 27 balls, apart from this no any batsman could play well and stay in the crease, Brad Evens dismissed just for 9 runs, Takudzwanashe Kaitano 7 runs, Luke Jongwe 6 runs, Tanaka Chivanga 4 runs, Wesley Madhevere 2 runs, Regis Chakabva 2 runs, and Victor Nyauchi dismissed without scoring, in this way, wickets continually failed one after another and end of the result the entire team dismissed just for 161 runs and set an easy target of 162 runs in front of India.
Indian bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Shardul Thakur took 3 wickets for 28 runs in 7 over, apart from him all-bowlers got 1-1 wicket.
India chasing 162 runs in the second achived the target very easily by losing just 5 wickets in just fourth ball of the 26th over, Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone very quicky just for 5 runs in 1.4 over, KL Rahul dismissed just for 1 run, next batsman Shubman Gill came to bat and handled the inning with Shikhar Dhawan, the second wicket has gone for 47 runs in 6.3 over, Shikhar Dhawan dismissed after scoring 33 runs in 21 balls, next batmsan Ishan Kishan came to bat and he good strike rotate with Shubman Gill, the third wicket has gone for 83 runs in 11.4 over, Ishan Kishan dismissed just for 6 runs, followed by Deepak Hooda came to bat, after few moments the fourth wicket has also gone for 97 runs in last ball of the 14th over, Shubman Gill dismissed after scoring 33 runs in 34 balls, next batsman Sanju Samson came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 56 runs with Deepak Hooda, the fifth wicket has gone for 153 runs in 23.3 over, Deepak Hooda dismissed after scoring 25 runs in 35 balls, followed by Axer Patel came to bat and he remains unbeaten for 6 runs with Sanju Samson, and Sanju Samson played a very brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 43 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 39 balls, in this way, India chased the target very easily by losing just 5 wickets in 25.4 over and won the match by 5 wickets and seal this ODI series.
Zimbabwe bowlers Luke Jongwe took 2 wickets for 33 runs, Tanaka Chivanga, Victor Nyauchi, and Sikandar Raza got 1-1 wicket.
Indian batsman Sanju Samson was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 43 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 39 balls.
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