Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 19, 2022, 07:33 AM
IND vs ZIM | India started the series brilliantly by registering a thumping 10-wicket win against Zimbabwe in the first ODI. Team India is now leading 1-0 in this three-match series. Along with the bowlers, openers Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill played an important role in India's victory. Deepak Chahar, Prashant Krishna and Axar Patel took 3-3 wickets to first bundle out Zimbabwe for 189, after which the pair of Dhawan and Gill easily chased the score without losing a wicket.While Shubman Gill played a brilliant innings of 82 runs in 72 balls with the help of 10 fours and 1 six, Dhawan scored 81 runs in 113 balls with the help of 9 fours. There was an unbeaten 192-run partnership for the first wicket between the two players. However, by just 6 runs, he missed out on breaking the 24-year-old record of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. Had the Zimbabwe team scored a few more runs, perhaps this record could have been broken.If you take a look at the records in which India has successfully chased the target without losing a wicket, then the pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly who shared an unbeaten 197 runs partnership against Zimbabwe in 1998 itself. The pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill has now reached the second position in this list with 192 runs.Indian pair to successfully chase the biggest target without losing a wicket197- Sachin/Ganguly (1998)192 - Dhawan/Gill (2022)*126 - KL Rahul/F Fazal (2016)123 - Gavaskar/F Engineer (1975)