Saturday, February 8th, 2025

‘World champion team India played like a world champion, we made a big mistake here’


New Delhi. India’s youth cricket team defeated Zimbabwe by 100 runs in the second T20. India scored 234 runs on the basis of Abhishek Sharma’s century. In reply, host Zimbabwe’s innings was reduced to 134 runs. Zimbabwe’s captain Sikandar Raza, who troubled the Indian batsmen in the first match, failed miserably in bowling in the second T20. All his/her bowlers looked helpless in front of Abhishek Sharma. After the defeat, Sikandar said that our fielding was not good due to which we lost the match.

For Zimbabwe, opener Wesley Madhevere scored 43 runs, Luke Jongwe scored 33 runs and Brian Bennett scored 26 runs. Apart from them, only Jonathan Campbell (10 runs), son of former Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell, reached double figures. Zimbabwe did not have a good start while chasing the target and lost wickets at regular intervals. Mukesh Kumar and Avesh Khan dismissed Zimbabwe’s top order due to which Zimbabwe lost four wickets in the powerplay.

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had to suffer the consequences of poor fielding
Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza said after the defeat, ‘The world champion team will play like a world champion. I think our fielding was not good. We missed some opportunities for which we had to pay the price.’ Madhevere stood firm at one end but wickets kept falling at the other end and only formality was left. Madhevere faced 39 balls and hit three fours and a six. he/she added 41 runs in 32 balls for the eighth wicket with Jongwe. Apart from this, no significant partnership was made.

India scored 30 runs more than expected
According to Sikandar Raza, ‘We definitely had to pay the price for the dropped catches. I had expected 200 on this wicket today. But 30 runs more were scored. When we came to chase, we thought it would be a very close match but it did not happen. Our top order flopped.’

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