Earlier, India have registered back-to-back series whitewashes against Zimbabwe, first a 5-0 win in 2013 before completing a 3-0 victory in 2015.
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India defeat Zimbabwe to clinched the three match ODI series after taking a 2-0 lead.
Although many players in India s squad would appear to be some distance from cracking the first-choice team, Bangar believes that the tour of Zimbabwe, which also includes three Twenty20 internationals, offers a serious opportunity.
He last played in Zimbabwe in 2005, and his worldwide career was just six months old and Sourav Ganguly was the captain of the Indian team. India’s win depends on The Caption Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the team.
Nair (39) was bowled lbw by Sikandar Raza, 11 shy of his half-century, but Ambati Rayudu’s quick-fire 41 from 44 deliveries and a first-ball four from Manish Pandey saw India over the finishing line with more than 23 overs to spare.
India took 27 overs to reach the target for the loss of the openers, both of whom made their debut on Saturday. He is the joint fourth-fastest Indian to the 1000 mark – MS Dhoni had also taken 29 innings while Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (24 innings) and Navjot Sidhu (25 innings) had been quicker.
India won the toss, made Zimbabwe bat, Zimbabwe was all out for little, and India cruised to victory.
Zimbabwe’s feeble performance led the few supporters in the ground to stage something of a protest against their players, as they held up banners and whistled during the early stages of India’s chase. “We’ve got an opportunity and we’re all very happy and excited to come out here and learn a lot about going out there and doing well in worldwide cricket and understand what is different from our first-class cricket”, the only Indian to make an ODI ton on debut said.
Off-spinner Jayant Yadav had a good season n the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 for Delhi Daredevils (DD), and the team management will be tempted to play him in the T20Is. One certain example was Ambati Rayudu who showed his maturity during the run-chase. Sibanda played positive cricket by hitting regular boundaries while Raza blocked one end. Sibanda and Raza had painstakingly built a platform for their team during their association of 67 runs for the fourth wicket, but a brain-freeze moment from Raza opened the floodgates. Dhoni will be hoping to give the others a chance as well but maybe after sealing the series here and giving them a game a during in the last match.
Zimbabwe who has lost their first ODI will definitely make some change.
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India’s young bowling unit was once again at its lethal best with the medium pace trio of Barinder Sran (2/17), Dhawal Kulkarni (2/31) and Jasprit Bumrah (1/27) complimenting Chahal and Patel (1/22) well.
