5 Lowest ODI team totals

#1. Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka (25 April 2004)

Zimbabwe: 35 all out

Farveez Maharoof cleaned up the tail

3 years after the drubbing the Zimbabweans had received at the hands of the Lankans, the 2 sides were competing against each other in the third ODI of the 5 matches bilateral series.

Sri Lanka had already won the first 2 matches and was inching closer towards a series victory.

Zimbabwe, on the other hand, had followed a competitive valiant effort in the first ODI by a dispirited performance in the second ODI.

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field first at Harare. Matsikenyeri was run out on the second ball of the fourth over with the score reading just 5 runs.

Dilhara Fernando was tantalizingly close to getting a hat trick when he managed to get rid of Dion Ebrahim and Tatenda Taibu on consecutive deliveries of the eighth over. Vaas then joined the action by rattling the furniture on 2 separate occasions by dismissing Elton Chigumbura and Maregwede inside of 13 overs.

After Fernando and Vaas, it was now Farveez Maharoof’s time to take the center stage. First, he dismissed Vusi Sibanda for 4, pushing Zimbabwe on the brink of uncertainty at 27/7. He followed it up by claiming the last 2 wickets in the space of 3 deliveries in the 18th over of the Zimbabwean innings.

The humiliation just seemed to pile on for Zimbabwe as they had hit an all-time low by scoring the lowest team total in ODIs to date at 35 all out. Chaminda Vaas once again was the star of the show finishing with figures of 4/11.

Sri Lanka marched towards an emphatic victory, scoring 40/1 inside of 10 overs.