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

Netherlands vs Nepal 1st T20: Netherlands won by 18 runs

Nepal tour of Netherlands, 2015

The first T20 match between Netherlands and Nepal was played on 30th June as a part of 4 T20 match series. Netherlands won the match by 18 runs. Nepal could score 116 runs in 20 runs while chasing down the 135 runs target set by Netherlands.

Netherlands won the toss and opt to bat and the decision was not at all wrong. The team managed to score 134 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 5 wickets. Opener Stephan Myburgh (67) was the highest scorer for Netherlands team.

Netherlands Squad: Stephan Myburgh, Michael Swart, Ben Cooper, Wesley Barresi, Timm van der Gugten, Paul van Meekeren, Peter Borren, Mudassar Bukhari, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Ahsan Malik 

Netherlands Score Card

Nepal team started with openers Subash Khakurel (2) and Gyanendra Malla (24) and could only score 116 runs in 20 overs by losing 7 wickets. The team could not win the match, but played really well from the perspective of a rather new team.

Nepal Squad: Subash Khakurel, Pradeep Singh Airee, Gyanendra Malla, Paras Khadka, Sharad Vesawkar, Binod Bhandari, Rajesh Pulami, Sompal Kami, Basant Regmi, KC Karan, Avinash Karn

Netherlands Score Card