Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2024

Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2024
	Zimbabwe	India
Dates	6 – 14 July 2024
Captains	Sikandar Raza	Shubman Gill
Twenty20 International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs	Dion Myers (134)	Shubman Gill (170)
Most wickets	Blessing Muzarabani (6) Sikandar Raza (6)	Mukesh Kumar (8) Washington Sundar (8)
Player of the series	Washington Sundar (Ind)

The Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe in July 2024 to play five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. ^{[1] [2]} In February 2024, the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour. ^{[3] [4]}

Squads

Zimbabwe [5]	India [6]
Sikandar Raza (c) Faraz Akram Brian Bennett Johnathan Campbell Tendai Chatara Luke Jongwe Innocent Kaia Clive Madande (wk) Wesley Madhevere Tadiwanashe Marumani Wellington Masakadza Brandon Mavuta Blessing Muzarabani Dion Myers Antum Naqvi Richard Ngarava Milton Shumba	Shubman Gill (c) Khaleel Ahmed Ravi Bishnoi Tushar Deshpande Shivam Dube Ruturaj Gaikwad Yashasvi Jaiswal Dhruv Jurel (wk) Avesh Khan Mukesh Kumar Riyan Parag Harshit Rana Sanju Samson (wk) Abhishek Sharma Jitesh Sharma (wk) Rinku Singh Sai Sudharsan Washington Sundar

On 26 June 2024, Nitish Kumar Reddy was ruled out due to injury and was replaced by Shivam Dube. ^[7] Harshit Rana, Jitesh Sharma and Sai Sudharsan were named as replacements for Shivam Dube, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson for the first two T20Is. ^{[8] [9]}

T20I series

1st T20I

6 July 2024 13:00 Scorecard

Zimbabwe   115/9 (20 overs)	v	India 102 (19.5 overs)
Clive Madande 29* (25) Ravi Bishnoi 4/13 (4 overs)		Shubman Gill 31 (29) Tendai Chatara 3/16 (3.5 overs)

Zimbabwe won by 13 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Iknow Chabi (Zim) and Forster Mutizwa (Zim) Player of the match: Sikandar Raza (Zim)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Shubman Gill captained India for the first time in T20Is. ^[10]
• Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag and Abhishek Sharma (Ind) all made their T20I debuts. ^[11]
• Zimbabwe  stuns   India in nail-biting thriller, wins first T20 match of series ^[12]
• Zimbabwe's batting lineup crippled to Indian spinners as the former finished the first innings with 115 runs losing nine wickets.
• Ravi Bishnoi finished the innings with four wickets and conceded 13 runs in his four overs. Washington Sundar led behind Ravi Bishnoi with two wickets and 11 runs in his four overs. Mukesh Kumar and Avesh Khan took a wicket each.

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2nd T20I

7 July 2024 13:00 Scorecard

India   234/2 (20 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 134 (18.4 overs)
Abhishek Sharma 100 (47) Wellington Masakadza 1/29 (2 overs)		Wesley Madhevere 43 (39) Avesh Khan 3/15 (3 overs)

India won by 100 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Forster Mutizwa (Zim) and Langton Rusere (Zim) Player of the match: Abhishek Sharma (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sai Sudharsan (Ind) made his T20I debut. ^[14]
• Abhishek Sharma (Ind) scored his maiden century in T20Is. ^[15]
• This was the joint-biggest defeat by margin of runs for Zimbabwe in T20Is. ^{[16] [17]}
• India vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20I 2024 Highlights: India's Abhishek Sharma scored a scintillating ton and Ruturaj Gaikwad supported him with a valuable half-century to take India to 234/2 in the first innings after Shubman Gill won the toss and opted to bat first. ^[18]

3rd T20I

10 July 2024 13:00 Scorecard

India   182/4 (20 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 159/6 (20 overs)
Shubman Gill 66 (49) Sikandar Raza 2/24 (4 overs)		Dion Myers 65* (49) Washington Sundar 3/15 (4 overs)

India won by 23 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Langton Rusere (Zim) and Percival Sizara (Zim) Player of the match: Washington Sundar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sikandar Raza (Zim) scored his 5,000th run in T20s. ^{[19] [20]}
• This was India's 150th victory in T20Is. ^{[21] [22]}

4th T20I

13 July 2024 13:00 Scorecard

Zimbabwe   152/7 (20 overs)	v	India 156/0 (15.2 overs)
Sikandar Raza 46 (28) Khaleel Ahmed 2/32 (4 overs)		Yashasvi Jaiswal 93* (53)

India won by 10 wickets Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Iknow Chabi (Zim) and Forster Mutizwa (Zim) Player of the match: Yashasvi Jaiswal (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Tushar Deshpande (Ind) made his T20I debut.
• Sikandar Raza became the first Zimbabwean cricketer to score 2,000 runs in T20Is. ^{[23] [24]}

5th T20I

14 July 2024 13:00 Scorecard

India   167/6 (20 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 125 (18.3 overs)
Sanju Samson 58 (45) Blessing Muzarabani 2/19 (4 overs)		Dion Myers 34 (32) Mukesh Kumar 4/22 (3.3 overs)

India won by 42 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Iknow Chabi (Zim) and Forster Mutizwa (Zim) Player of the match: Shivam Dube (Ind)

• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
• Riding on a brisk 58 by Sanju Samson and Shivam Dube quickfire 26, India put on 167/6. Blessing Muzarabani scalped two wickets for the hosts. Blessing Muzarabani, meanwhile, was the hosts’ best bowler, with a spell of 2/19 in four overs. Sikandar Raza, Richard Ngarava and Brandon Mavuta also picked up a wicket each.

• The hosts lost wickets at regular intervals during the chase and could not match the required run rate. Despite Dion Myers gritty 34, the 12th-ranked T20I team was bundled out for 125 in 18.3 overs.
• Mukesh Kumar inflicted early damage on the hosts with two wickets in his first two overs. The 30-year-old Indian pacer narrowly missed out on a third in his next over after Tadiwanashe Marumani was bowled on a no-ball.

• Tadiwanashe Marumani and Dion Myers smashed 15 runs off Ravi Bishnoi first over as Zimbabwe finished the powerplay at 47/2. The duo, then, stitched a 44-run partnership in 36 balls before Washington Sundar trapped Tadiwanashe Marumani(27 off 24) LBW.

• Four overs later, Myers, who made a T20I career-best 65 on Saturday, was caught off Dube’s bowling after a 32-ball 34 while the hosts still needed 82 runs in 42 balls. After Raza was run out in the 14th over, the wickets kept tumbling.

• Faraz Akram failed to keep the hosts in the game despite a swashbuckling 13-ball 27. Mukesh scalped two wickets in two balls as Zimbabwe were bowled out for 125 in 18.3 overs. He registered career-best T20I figures of 4/22 while Dube picked up two wickets.

• Indian all-rounder Washington Sundar, who picked up eight wickets from the five matches with a miserly economy of 5.16, was named the Player of the Series.

• IND vs ZIM 5th T20 2024 brief scores: India 167/6 in 20 overs (Sanju Samson 58, Shivam Dube 26; Blessing Blessing Muzarabani 2/19) beat Zimbabwe 125/10 (Dion Myers 34, Faraz Akram 27; Mukesh Kumar 4/22) in 18.3 overs by 42 runs. ^[25]

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo