India vs Zimbabwe, 2nd T20: Zimbabwe won by 10 runs

India tour of Zimbabwe 2015

 

Ending the long series of defeats, Zimbabwe has won the second T20 match against India. The match was played at Harare Sports Club, Harare on Sunday, July 19. Zimbabwe, while batting first, scored 145 runs in 20 overs while India could score 135 runs and lost by 10 runs. The T20 series ended in a tie (1-1).

Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat first. The team started well with the opener Chamu Chibhabha scored 67 runs of 51 balls. Zimbabwe team scored 145 runs with the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohit Sharma, each took 2 wickets for India.

Zimbabwe Innings Score Card

India was given a target of 146 runs to be chased in 20 overs, which didn't seem very big seeing the recent performances of the team, but the luck probably was not in the favour of the team. India lost first 5 of their wickets for just 69 runs. Only Robin Uthappa did a respectable job and scored 42 runs for 25 balls before he was caught by Seam Williams. Indian team could only score 135 runs in 20 overs and lost 9 wickets.

Graeme Cremer took 2 wickets for his team.

India Innings Score Card

India vs Zimbabwe, 1st T20: India won by 54 Runs

India tour of Zimbabwe 2015

 

After winning the ODI series with 3-0, India has also won the first T20 International match against Zimbabwe played on Friday, 17th July. While batting first, India scored 178 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Zimbabwe could only score 124 runs in 20 overs and lost 7 wickets.

Axar Patel has been chosen the Man of the Match for his 3/17 in 4 overs.

The first T20 match of the two T20 match series between India and Zimbabwe was played today at Harare Sports Club, Harare. India won the toss and chose to bat and scored 178 runs with the loss of 5 wickets in its innings. Ajinkya Rahane (c) scored 33 of 32 balls, Murali Vijay 34 of 19 balls and Robin Uthappa (wk) 39 of 35 balls. The team lost 5 of its wickets and jotted down 178 runs in 20 overs.

Chris Mpofu took 3 wickets for Zimbabwe.

India Innings Score Card

Zimbabwe was given a target of 179 runs to be chased in 20 overs, but it could only score 124 runs and lost 7 wickets. Hamilton Masakadza scored highest 28 runs of 24 balls.

Axar Patel took 3 wickets for India.

Zimbabwe Innings Score Card

 

Notable Points:

1. This is Zimbabwe's 9th successive T20 defeat at Harare

Champions League T20 (CLT20) tournament discontinued

The Champions League T20 tournament has been discontinued with immediate effect because of the poor demand and user base. BCCI, on Wednesday confirmed that an agreement has been reached by the Governing Council of CLT20 to discontinue the tournament with immediate effect.

CLT20, which was a joint venture of BCCI, Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Cricket Australia (CA), could not find enough sponsors or fans to be continued any longer. The fan base was poor since the very beginning of this tournament in 2009 and now, the hosts are even struggling to find sponsors. The decision was taken unanimously by all three host associations.

Anurag Thakur, Secretary of the BCCI said, “This has been a difficult decision as the Champions League T20 provided added context to a number of domestic Twenty 20 competitions around the world such as the IPL in India, Big Bash League in Australia and South Africa’s Ram Slam T20. "

After this decision, the upcoming edition of CLT20, scheduled in September and October, will be discarded.

CLT20 was not reportedly drawing enough attraction of audience from any country other than India and this was not good for the business. BCCI, though gave a hint of organizing a 'mini-IPL' to be played in the UAE to replace the discontinued CLT20.

Afghanistan vs Netherlands 2nd Match: Afghanistan won by 32 runs

T20 WC Qualifier 2015

 

The 2nd match of T20 World Cup Qualifier was played Afghanistan and Netherlands on Thursday, 09th July. Afghanistan, while batting first scored 162 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Netherlands, while chasing down the target, could score 130 runs in 19.4 overs. Afghanistan won the match by 32 runs.

The T20 match was played at Grange Cricket Club, Edinburgh. Netherlands won the toss and chose to field first, but probably regretted it later as Afghanistan scored well while batting first. Afghanistan team made 162 runs with the run rate of 8+ runs per over and lost 7 wickets. Samiullah Shenwari was the highest scorer who made 44 runs out of 42 balls. Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran both contributed 33 runs individually.

Afghanistan Score Card

Netherlands, while playing second tried to chase down the target, but couldn't due to some poor batting performances. Although Ben Cooper scored respectable score of 36 runs for 23 balls, not any other player could score big enough to reach the target. The whole team collapsed down for 130 runs with 2 balls remaining.

Netherlands Score Card

Scotland vs UAE 1st Match: Scotland won by 9 wkts

T20 WC Qualifier 2015

The first T20 World Cup 2015 qualifier match was played between Scotland and United Arab Emirates on Thursday, July 09. Scotland won this match by 9 wickets. Scotland won the toss and chose to field and bowled out the UAE team for just 109 runs. The 110 runs target was chased by Scotland team in just 10 overs with 9 wickets remaining.

Scotland won the toss and invited UAE to bat first, which proven to be an extremely well decision. Not a single player in the UAE team could score more than 20 runs. The highest score was made by Mohammad Naveed of 19 runs in 17 balls. UAE lost all its wickets for 109 runs and gave an easy target of 110 runs to Scotland team.

Mark Watt and Michael Leask each got 3 wickets for Scotland.

UAE Score Card

Scotland didn't waste much time to reach the target and won the game with 10 overs remaining. Openers George Munsey (62) and Kyle Coetzer (39) did most of the task and scored 96 runs for the first wicket. Kyle Coetzer was bowled out by Mohammad Naveed. Scotland won the game with 9 wickets remaining.

Scotland Score Card

The 2nd T20 WC qualifier match is scheduled between Afghanistan and Netherlands. Check lice score in the left side panel.

Bangladesh vs South Africa 2nd T20: RSA won by 31 runs

SA tour of Bangladesh 2015

 

 

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The 2nd T20 match between Bangladesh and South Africa was played on Tuesday, July 07 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. RSA won this match by 31 runs. South Africa already won the first T20 match against Bangladesh with this victory, the team has won the T20 series with 2-0. Eddie Leie has been chosen the Man of the Match for his 3 wickets haul for 16 runs in 3 overs.

South Africa won the toss and chose to bat in the 2nd T20 International.

South Africa Squad: AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis, Jean-Paul Duminy, David Miller, Rilee Rossouw, David Wiese, Wayne Parnell, Eddie Leie, Aaron Phangiso, Kyle Abbott

Openers Quinton de Kock (44) and AB de Villiers (40) gave a good start to the team and David Miller (30) and Rilee Rossouw (19) took the score to a total of 169 runs. Nasir Hossain took highest 2 wickets for Bangladesh.

South Africa Innings



Bangladesh Squad: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Litton Das, Mashrafe Mortaza, Rony Talukdar, Arafat Sunny, Mustafizur Rahman

Bangladesh had already lost its first T20 match against SA and the confidence level is not always very good when you are playing against a big team like RSA. In this match though, Bangladesh team gave a good fight with Soumya Sarkar (37) and others played their roles, but the team could not chase the total in 20 overs and was bowled out for 138 runs with 4 balls remaining.

Kyle Abbott, Eddie Leie & Aaron Phangisoeach took 3 wickets for South Africa.

Bangladesh Innings

Bangladesh vs South Africa 1st T20: SA won by 52 runs

South Africa tour of Bangladesh 2015

South Africa tour of Bangladesh, 2015 started from Sunday, July 05 with a T20 match. The tour comprises of 2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 2 T20s matches, which will be played over next month. South Africa won first T20 match by 52 runs in a really interesting match. Read highlights here.

First T20 match was played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. South Africa won the toss and chose to bat, which was not a wrong decision as the team managed to score 148 runs in 20 overs for 4 wickets. Captain du Plessis scored highest 79 runs out of 61 balls and was chosen the Man of the Match. The game was short but much interesting.

South Africa Squad: Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, Jean-Paul Duminy, David Wiese, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Kyle Abbott

South Africa Innings Score card



Bangladesh, which played second could not chase the score due to poor batting performance of its players or say, better bowling performance of SA players. Shakib Al Hasan was the highest scorer for Ban, who scored 26 runs for 30 balls. Bangladesh team couldn't even survive for 20 overs and was bowled out for 96 runs with 1.1 overs remaining. South Africa won this match by 52 runs.

Bangladesh Squad: Tamim Iqbal, Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mustafizur Rahman, Arafat Sunny

Bangladesh Innings Score card

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Rahane to lead India in Zimbabwe Series

India tour of Zimbabwe 2015

Ajinkya Rahane has been chosen to lead the Indian Cricket side for the upcoming India tour of Zimbabwe. Dhoni and Kohli are amongst those who will be resting for this tour. Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin have also been not included in the team as they demanded to rest for the time. Harbhajan Singhhas been selected to play in the ODI matches of 3-matches series.

The squad was chosen in Delhi for the upcoming India tour of Zimbabwe 2015. Ravindra Jadeja is also not the part of the team. Most of seniors players will be on rest for the series and BCCI has given a chance to a lot of players to comeback in the series including Robin Uthappa and Murali Vijay.

Indian team is set to pay 3 ODIs and 2 T20s against Zimbabwe in the series scheduled from July 10 to July 19.

India Squad: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Murali Vijay, Ambati Rayudu, Manoj Tiwary, Kedar Jadhav, Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Harbhajan Singh, Axar Patel, Karn Sharma, Dhawal Kulkarni, Stuart Binny, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Sandeep Sharma

The selection committee has also picked the team for the upcoming tri-series against Australia 'A' and South Africa 'A' for which Cheteshwar Pujara has been named captain.

India A squad: KL Rahul, Abhinav Mukund, Cheteshwar Pujara (C), Karun Nair, Shreyas Iyer, Naman Ojha, Vijay Shanker, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Shardul Thakur, Varun Aaron, Abhimanyu Mithun, Umesh Yadav, Shreyas Gopal, Baba Aparajith