IND vs ZIM / Team India beat Zimbabwe by 42 runs in the fifth T20I match - winning the series 4-1

IND vs ZIM: Recovering from the shocking defeat in the very first match, the young Indian team led by Shubman Gill defeated Zimbabwe 4-1 in the T20 series. Team India defeated Zimbabwe by 42 runs in the last match of the series at Harare Sports Club. On the basis of the excellent play of Sanju Samson and Mukesh Kumar, Team India captured the series with the fourth consecutive win. At the same time, Shivam Dubey showed his flair with batting and bowling. Also, Shubman Gill, who is captaining Team India for the first time, also started with a strong record on this front.

Seeing the way the team full of young players performed in the last one week, the pain of the shocking defeat in the first match of the series on July 6 in Harare was completely over. However, that defeat definitely worked to awaken the team and its effect was seen in the next 4 matches. In almost every match, different players showed their brilliance and played an important role in winning the series 4-1.

Top order failed, Samson took over

Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza, who lost the toss in the last 4 matches of the series, won the match this time and chose to bowl first and came to bowl the first over himself. Yashasvi Jaiswal started his over with 2 consecutive sixes but he was bowled on the fourth ball. At the same time, once again Abhishek Sharma's bat at number three could not work, while Gill also got out cheaply.

After 3 wickets fell for just 40 runs, Sanju Samson (58) and Riyan Parag (22) took over the innings. There was a partnership of 65 runs between the two, in which Samson looked more effective but Riyan could not do anything special. Samson scored the second half-century of his career in 39 balls. At the same time, Shivam Dubey scored a quick 26 runs in the last overs and took the team to a strong score of 167. Blessing Muzarabani was the strongest for Zimbabwe again and took 2 wickets for 19 runs.

Mukesh destroyed Zimbabwe

After this, it was the turn of Mukesh Kumar, who had returned to the playing eleven for this match. He proved it right and took two wickets in 2 consecutive overs. In the very first over of the innings, he sent opener Wesley Madhevere back to the pavilion and Brian Bennett back to the pavilion in the third over. Here, there was a good partnership of 44 runs between Dion Myers (34) and T Marumani (27) but Washington Sundar broke this partnership by dismissing Marumani LBW.

Then Dubey also sent Myers back to the pavilion in no time. Zimbabwe's last hope, captain Sikandar Raza, was run out and from here Team India took control of the match. Faraz Akram, who was badly beaten in bowling, scored 27 runs (13 balls) quickly to take the team past the 100-run mark but Mukesh Kumar quickly dismissed the remaining batsmen and bundled out Zimbabwe for just 125 runs. Mukesh took 4 wickets for just 22 runs. Dubey took 2 wickets and the other bowlers got 1 wicket each.