Zimbabwe made a big upset, defeated Team India in a thrilling match, the match was like this in the last over

IND vs ZIM: The 5-match T20 series between India and Zimbabwe has started with a thrilling match. The first match of the series between the two teams was played at Harare Sports Club. This match was low scoring, where the batsmen of both the teams were seen struggling for runs. Due to which Team India had to face defeat by 13 runs. Let us tell you, BCCI has rested the senior players for this series and a young team is on this tour under the captaincy of Shubman Gill.

Zimbabwe team put 115 runs on the board

Team India captain Shubman Gill won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. The bowlers also performed well and did not let the Zimbabwe batsmen stay on the field. Batting first, Zimbabwe's team managed to play 20 overs and put only 115 runs on the board for the loss of 9 wickets. Clive Madande scored the highest unbeaten 29 runs for Zimbabwe. At the same time, Dion Myers contributed 23 runs. Brian John Bennett also scored 22 runs in 15 balls. On the other hand, Ravi Bishnoi took the maximum 4 wickets for Team India. Washington Sundar also got 2 successes and Mukesh Kumar-Avesh Khan took 1-1 wickets.

Team India's batting flopped

In response to this target, Team India's batting was poor from the beginning. Team India lost 4 wickets in the powerplay itself and then no batsman could recover from this initial setback of the team. Due to which the Indian team could score only 102 runs while chasing the target of 116. Captain Shubman Gill scored the highest 31 runs for Team India. Apart from him, no proper batsman could touch the double digit figure. Due to this poor performance, Team India suffered its third defeat in the history of T20 cricket against Zimbabwe.

All three debutants got out cheaply

In this match, Abhishek Sharma, Dhruv Jurel and Riyan Parag made their T20 debut for Team India. But none of the batsmen could stay on the crease for long. Abhishek Sharma faced 4 balls and lost his wicket without opening the account. After this, Riyan Parag also could not do anything special in his debut match. Riyan Parag played an innings of just 2 runs off 3 balls in this match. At the same time, Dhruv Jurel faced 14 balls and scored only 6 runs with the help of 1 four.

How was the match

In this match played between the two teams, Team India captain Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, Zimbabwe, batting in the first innings, scored 115 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. During this, the performance of the Indian bowlers was amazing. Ravi Bishnoi took four wickets for Team India. Apart from this, Washington Sundar took two wickets, Mukesh Kumar and Avesh Khan took one wicket each.

In the second innings of the match, Team India had a target of only 116 runs to win. Which the Indian team must have come on the field with the intention of achieving very easily. The Indian team, however, could not achieve this target and was all out for a score of 102 runs in 19.5 overs. During this, captain Gill was the highest run-scorer. He scored 31 runs off 29 balls. Apart from this, Washington Sundar scored 27 runs and Avesh Khan scored 16 runs off 12 balls. Still, Team India lost the match in the last over.

Last over game

Team India needed 16 runs off 6 balls to win in the last over against Zimbabwe. India had also lost 9 wickets, but Washington Sundar was batting from one end. Then it was expected that India could win this match. But Washington disappointed everyone and he could score only two runs in the last over. With this, the Indian team lost only the second T20 match against Zimbabwe in its history.