Zimbabwe’s Brian Bennett plays a ball during the second T20 cricket match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Wonder Mashura)
Pakistan bundled out Zimbabwe for just 57 runs relegating the African nation to their lowest ever T20I total in the 2nd match in the 3-match series.
Zimbabwe’s lowest total before this match was 82 which they posted against Sri Lanka in January of this year. Openers Brian Bennett and Tadiwanashe Marumani were the only players who could get to double digits while players like Dion Myers and captain Sikandar Raza were among the rest of the team who could only muster up a single digit score.
Sufiyan Muqeem was the pick of the bowlers, taking 5 wickets for just 3 runs while Abbas Afridi chipped in with two. Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf and captain Salman Agha took a wicket apiece as Zimbabwe were bundled out in just 12.4 overs.
Earlier, Zimbabwe had won the toss and opted to bat first against Pakistan with the Men in Green leading the series 1-0.
In the 1st T20I, Pakistan’s spinners propelled their team to an emphatic 57-run win over the hosts in on Sunday.
Left-arm wrist spinner Muqeem claimed 3 wickets for 20 runs and leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed picked up 3-28 as Zimbabwe was bowled out for 108 in 15.3 overs. The hosts lost their last eight wickets for 31 runs.
Pakistan, which won the toss and elected to bat, had posted 165-4 on the back of Tayyab Tahir’s unbeaten 39 off 26 balls and Irfan Khan’s 27 not out off 15 as both batters combined in a 65-run stand to lift the total in the death overs.
Zimbabwe couldn’t cash in on a counterattack from captain Sikandar Raza (39 in 28) and Tadiwanashe Marumani (33 in 20) in the powerplay after Ahmed had clean bowled Brian Bennett and Dion Myers in his second over.
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