Top 5 series deciders in one-day cricket

2. Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Hambantota, 10th July 2017.

Zimbabwe may be an underdog team, however, in this very series, they played like a champion team. The series started with Zimbabwe gunning down the highest chase in a one-day match in Sri-Lanka with Solomon Mire scoring his first century. The next two one-dayers were clinched by Sri-Lanka quite comfortably.

The third one-day was again taken by Zimbabwe narrowly. In the series finale, Zimbabwe's spectacular bowling performance restricted Sri Lanka to 203.

Zimbabwe, in pursuit of 204, had a brilliant start. Hamilton Masakadza and Solomon Mire racked up an opening stand of 92. Just when it looked, Zimbabwe were cruising to a historic series win, their batting order was crumbling in a spit. Sikandar Raza was the last hope for Zimbabwe and he repaid the same.

An unbeaten but a jittery eighth wicket partnership between Sikandar Raza and Graeme Cremer got Zimbabwe home with more than eleven overs to spare. The series win was a ground-breaking one for Zimbabwean cricket as this was the first bilateral series win for Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka. Hamilton Masakadza was named the man of the series for 258 runs from five matches.