2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 1–8 July 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Zimbabwe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Pakistan won the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Player of the series | Fakhar Zaman (Pak) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament held from 1 to 8 July 2018 in Zimbabwe. [4] It was a tri-nation series between Australia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, with all the matches played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) at the Harare Sports Club. [5] [6] In the fourth T20I, Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets, therefore Australia and Pakistan qualified for the final. [7] Pakistan defeated Australia in the final by six wickets to win the series. [8]
Originally, the tour was just going to feature Australia and Zimbabwe, with the two teams playing two Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs). [9] [10] In June 2018, the Zimbabwe team threatened to boycott the tour in a dispute over outstanding money that had not been paid to players. [11] Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) paid one of the three months' worth of outstanding salaries, with the players giving ZC the deadline of 25 June 2018 to pay the rest, or face a boycott. [12] However, despite not being paid, the players are likely to call off the protest and play in the series, [13] but the demand for the outstanding salaries payment deadline remains in place. [14] Zimbabwe Cricket assured players that all the outstanding salaries would be paid by 25 July 2018, one month after the players' deadline. [15] A few days later, Zimbabwe Cricket named a 22-man preliminary squad for the series, which was trimmed down to a final seventeen players. [16] [17] Zimbabwe did not initially name a captain, after Graeme Cremer was sacked following the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. [17] A day before the first match, Hamilton Masakadza was named as Zimbabwe's captain. [18]
Australia [19] | Pakistan [20] | Zimbabwe [17] |
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After the first T20I, Kyle Jarvis was ruled out for the series due to injury and was replaced by Donald Tiripano in Zimbabwe's squad. [21]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Australia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1.809 |
2 | Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.707 |
3 | Zimbabwe | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2.340 |
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