Live Cricket Score | Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan Live Score & Commentary | ZIM vs AFG Scorecard, Afghanistan tour of Zimbabwe

3rd T20I • Harare Sports Club • Harare

Afghanistan

125/8 (20)

Zimbabwe

90/9 (20)

AFG won by 35 runs

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Stats

Playing XI

Player of the Match Noor Ahmad

4/10

AFG s

ZIM s

Info

Afghanistan s

125/8 (20)

Batters

Hazratullah Zazai

109.09

c Kaia b Chatara

Ihsanullah Janat

142.86

c Kaia b Tiripano

Afsar Zazai

100.00

b Raza

Najibullah Zadran

50.00

c Madande b Burl

Sharafuddin Ashraf

71.43

b Burl

Mohammad Nabi

(C)

103.33

c Ervine b Jongwe

Azmatullah Omarzai

78.57

c Madhevere b Raza

Rashid Khan

50.00

c Raza b Ndlovu

Noor Ahmad

50.00

Not out

Nijat Masood

80.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 2, LB: 0, NB: 1, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 6.25)

125/8

Did not Bat

Fazalhaq Farooqi

Bowlers

EXT

10.00

6.00

10.00

5.33

5.50

6.50

4.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Hazratullah Zazai

c Kaia b Chatara

1-23

3.1

Ihsanullah Janat

c Kaia b Tiripano

2-49

5.4

Najibullah Zadran

c Madande b Burl

3-55

6.6

Sharafuddin Ashraf

b Burl

4-64

8.3

Afsar Zazai

b Raza

5-80

11.4

Azmatullah Omarzai

c Madhevere b Raza

6-98

15.2

Rashid Khan

c Raza b Ndlovu

7-102

16.4

Mohammad Nabi

c Ervine b Jongwe

8-117

18.5

Zimbabwe s

90/9 (20)

Batters

Wesley Madhevere

100.00

c Ahmad b Ashraf

Innocent Kaia

85.71

runout (Masood)

Tadiwanashe Marumani

64.71

b Ahmad

Craig Ervine

(C)

50.00

lbw b Ahmad

Sikandar Raza

0.00

st Zazai b Ashraf

Clive Madande

18.18

c (sub Rahmanullah Gurbaz) b Ahmad

Ryan Burl

62.50

c & b Farooqi

Donald Tiripano

0.00

b Ahmad

Luke Jongwe

40.00

b Khan

Ainsley Ndlovu

68.42

Not out

Tendai Chatara *

85.71

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 5, NB: 1, W: 5)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 4.5)

90/9

Bowlers

EXT

4.00

9.00

3.25

10.00

2.00

2.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Wesley Madhevere

c Ahmad b Ashraf

1-25

3.1

Innocent Kaia

runout (Masood)

2-40

6.1

Craig Ervine

lbw b Ahmad

3-42

6.6

Sikandar Raza

st Zazai b Ashraf

4-44

7.3

Tadiwanashe Marumani

b Ahmad

5-48

8.5

Clive Madande

c (sub Rahmanullah Gurbaz) b Ahmad

6-56

10.3

Donald Tiripano

b Ahmad

7-56

10.5

Luke Jongwe

b Khan

8-69

15.3

Ryan Burl

c & b Farooqi

9-69

16.1

Match Info

Date & Time

14 Jun, 04:30 PM IST

Venue

Harare Sports Club

Match

3rd T20I,

Afghanistan tour of Zimbabwe

Umpires

Christopher Phiri (Zimbabwe), Langton Rusere (Zimbabwe), Forster Mutizwa (Zimbabwe, TV)

Referee

Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bat

W 0 0 1 1 1

Over 17

Runs: 3

1 1 1lb 0 1 1

Over 18

Runs: 5

0 2 0 0 4 0

Over 19

Runs: 6

1 1 1 2 1lb 1

Over 20

Runs: 7

All Overs

Player of the Match Noor Ahmad

4/10

Commentary

So that is all that we have for you from the Harare Sports Club! Afghanistan have won all their six matches on this tour to Zimbabwe and are looking good to play more matches under more pressure against tougher opponents. Zimbabwe have some soul searching to do after these losses if they have to come back stronger. This is the commentary pair of Soorya and Bidipto, saying good bye! Keep following Sportskeeda for more cricketing action!

Player of the Series, Najib Zadran: I am very happy as a senior player that I have performed and won the player of the series award. I told the captain that I will take responsibility with the bat in the middle order and I will make it count, glad that it came off well. Our next focus will be on the Asia Cup, we have some exciting batters in our ranks, we will give each and every player, batter or bowler, the chance to impress, so that we are ready heading into the Asia Cup.

Player of the Match, Noor Ahmad: It is a dream of every player to play for the national team, I worked very hard for it and I'm thankful for what happened. I talked to Rashid before the innings about how to go about things, he said to keep it simple but tight and the rest would follow. It is definitely tough to break into such a quality bowling attack, but that is the challenge that I relish.

Afghanistan captain, Mohammad Nabi: This obviously was the plan to win all three matches and we executed it! It was not going to be easy to bat on this pitch, we knew it, and so we packed our team with spinners today. We wanted to give all out squad players a chance to play and that is what we want to do going forward as well. The squad should be the best as far as the 15 selected players is concerned.

Craig Ervine (Zimbabwe Captain): I think Noor Ahmad came and pretty much blew us away. We had a reasonable start - 40 odd for 1 at the end of the Powerplay but in the middle-overs we were completely undone by spin. It's going to be a hugely important time for us. We have to sit down after this and go over all the little things that we didn't do well and also the things we did do well and work on that. We're going to have to work extremely hard in the next few weeks if we are to qualify (for the T20 World Cup). It's always disappointing but you have to pick yourself up and keep your chin up. The first two T20s we were close. Again, it's just those key moments that Afghanistan have won and we haven't. They've just played better cricket than us throughout the series.

Afghanistan - 125/8 in 20 overs (Mohammad Nabi 31 off 30 balls, Sikandar Raza 2/18 in 4 overs) beat Zimbabwe - 90/9 in 20 overs (Wessly Madhevere 14 off 14 balls, Noor Ahmad 4/10 in 4 overs) by 35 runs and win the 3-match T20I series 3-0.

It was not going to be an easy run chase considering the nature of the pitch and the quality of the Afghanistan spin-bowling attack, but one did not imagine that it would get this tough for the hosts to even get close! A spellbinding performance from the Afghan spinners and Fazal Haq Farooqi, to hand their team, a clean sweep over the hosts!

Zimbabwe began well against Nijat Masood as Wessly Madhevere and Innocent Kaia took it to him and scored some quick runs to get the chase underway at a brisk pace, but the moment spin got introduced, it produced a wicket. By then, Fazal Haq had bowled two good and tight overs. The first ball from Sharafuddin turned out to be a wicket-ball and from then on, there was no turning back for the hosts. Come Noor Ahmad, and it got worse. There was a direct hit to get inflict a run out, but then, Noor spun such a web on the Zimbabwe batting, that it collapsed under its pressure. Sharaf continued his run and got followed and backed up well by Rashid Khan, who else!

Noor picked up 4 wickets, announcing himself at the world stage in T20Is and got the ball to turn both ways from over the wicket. Rashid Khan and his googlies were again unpickable and Mohammad Nabi did not even have to bring himself on to bowl!

Fazal Haq then came back with two good overs to get rid of Ryan Burl as well, the last threat remaining in the Zimbabwe batting line-up.

On the whole, there is plenty on the table for Zimbabwe to improve on with the bat, as they cannot always rely on Sikandar Raza to bail them out of trouble. As for Afghanistan, with the ball at least, the intent is there to cover most bases, if not all.

overs

90 /9 score

1lb

runs

Ainsley Ndlovu

13 (19)

Tendai Chatara *

6 (7)

Nijat Masood

0 /27

19.6 Nijat Masood to Tendai Chatara, steps down the track and slaps this short of a length delivery to mid-off's right as the fielder collects it on the bounce and fires an errant throw. A single draws the curtains on this tour and it's been the Afghan show all the way. Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 35 runs to seal a 3-0 series sweep!

Last ball of the series coming up!

19.5 Nijat Masood to Ainsley Ndlovu, slower delivery on a short length and angled into the stumps, Ndlovu sits on one knee and plays all around his slog as it nips back in and keeps low to ping him on the thigh pad. The batters cross over for a leg bye though!

19.4 Nijat Masood to Ainsley Ndlovu, full length delivery outside off, Ndlovu sits low and hacks it across the line to wide long on for a couple of runs.

19.3 Nijat Masood to Tendai Chatara, very full outside off, Chatara backs away and thumps it through backward point before third man picks up near the fence again. Just a single!

19.2 Nijat Masood to Ainsley Ndlovu, slower delivery on a length at the stumps, Ndlovu walks across and sits low to lap it fine of the keeper off the inner half of his blade for one.

Zimbabwe have equaled their lowest score in T20Is.

19.1 Nijat Masood to Tendai Chatara, slower short of a length delivery outside off, Chatara waits for it as he stands tall and flays it uppishly over backward point for a single as third man picks up in the deep.

The last over is upon us now and what a splendid bowling performance this has been from the Afghan bowlers. Such has been the performance that Mohammad Nabi has not been required to bowl. They were defending a low total, but they have done extremely well in doing this tough job after Zimbabwe got off to a good start.

overs

83 /9 score

runs

Ainsley Ndlovu *

10 (16)

Tendai Chatara

3 (4)

Fazalhaq Farooqi

1 /16

18.6 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Ainsley Ndlovu, back of a length delivery angling into the fifth-stump line, Ndlovu heaves across the line but only for his blade to make contact with thin air.

18.5 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Ainsley Ndlovu, FOUR! Slower back of a length delivery on middle and leg, Ndlovu whips it around the corner off his wrists as he waits for it and camps back before placing it through backward square leg for four.

18.4 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Ainsley Ndlovu, low full toss around off as he aims for the yorker, Ndlovu dinks it out with a whip towards cover.