ZIM vs AUS: A 3-match ODI series is being played between Zimbabwe and Australia. The second match of the series was played on 18 September at Harare Sports Club. Australia won this match by 84 runs and won the series. Australia’s top-3 batsmen performed brilliantly and played excellent innings for the team. Travis Head scored a brilliant century. In the end the Zimbabwean team lagged behind in the match.
Australia had scored 356 runs
For Australia, openers Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head made a partnership of 130 runs for the first wicket. Marsh had scored 53 runs in 63 balls. After this, Head took charge and played a brilliant century innings. He played an inning of 112 runs in 84 balls. He hit 15 fours and 3 sixes. Batting at number-3, Cooper Connolly played an innings of 78 runs in 69 balls. Apart from 3 fours, he had hit 3 sixes in his name. Apart from this, Oliver Peak played an inning of 41 runs in 18 balls. In this way Australia had scored 356 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 50 overs.
Brad Evans proved to be very expensive in bowling for Zimbabwe. However, he also took the maximum number of wickets. He made 3 batsmen his victims by spending 86 runs in 9 overs. Whereas, Wellington Masakadja took 2 wickets after spending 51 runs in 9 overs.
Zimbabwe limited to 272 runs
While chasing the huge target of 357 runs, Zimbabwe team was all out for 272 runs in 48.3 overs. Opener Brian Bennett scored 23 runs in 34 balls, apart from this Ben Curran scored 30 runs in 46 balls. Whereas, Innocent Kaiya played an innings of 34 runs in 47 balls. Whereas wicketkeeper batsman Brendan Taylor scored 39 runs in 40 balls. Sikandar Raza performed amazingly while batting at number 6. He scored 45 runs in 49 balls. All the Zimbabwean batsmen came and went.
Josh Hazlewood, Cooper Connolly, Adam Zampa, and Matt Renshaw took the most wickets for Australia. These bowlers took 2 wickets each. At the same time, Nathan Ellis, who took 5 wickets in the first match, could get only 1 success in this match. In this way Australia won by 84 runs.