Tag: Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan

Zimbabwe have won the toss and will bat first in the final T20, also their last game on tour. Like they did in the ODI series, Zimbabwe will look to avoid a clean sweep. Meanwhile, Pakistan will want to extent their 100% record, having never lost to Zimbabwe in ...

Big pictureAfter all the promise of a competitive ODI series, the T20Is have been something of a damp squib. Pakistan brought their top form to both weekend games, and illustrated the chasm that evidently exists between a Pakistani side that's rapidly improving and a Zimbabwean unit that needs improvement ...

Usman Qadir just couldn't get an international game. Until this series. Until today. This second T20I against Zimbabwe might be the occasion Qadir looks back on as the one that made him a serious spin option for the national team in short-format cricket.there was a brief period where the ...

Pakistan 137 for 2 (Haider Ali 66*, Babar Azam 51) beat Zimbabwe 134 for 7 (Burl 32*, Qadir 3-23, Rauf 3-31) by eight wicketsPakistan wrapped up the T20I series at the earliest opportunity, thrashing Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the second of three games. It was the bowlers who ...

Pakistan chose to field v ZimbabweAfter Babar Azam called correctly, he decided to put Zimbabwe in, expecting a similar performance to the clinical six-wicket win in the first T20I from his side. It was also the first time during the tour that the side winning the toss elected to ...

Zimbabwe chose to bat v PakistanZimbabwe won the toss for the third straight match, and, as they did previously, opted to bat in the first T20I in Rawalpindi. On perhaps the flattest pitch so far on the tour - the match carries the potential to be a high-scorer - ...

Former Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the ongoing T20 International series against Pakistan here, his country’s cricket board said on Saturday.The veteran Zimbabwe all-rounder will bring the curtain down on a 16-year international career that began in 2004. 34-year-old Chigumbura had ...

Big pictureThis shouldn't be complicated; perhaps, it isn't complicated.One of these two sides brushed aside all opposition in the format not long ago, better teams than their latest opponents, so complete was their domination in T20Is. The other lost a game to Singapore just over a year ago. One ...

Babar Azam admitted that poor fielding had let his side down in the third and final ODI against Zimbabwe, saying that Pakistan need to work on that aspect of their game to ensure it doesn't cost them in tight games in the future. Speaking after a pulsating game that ...

Zimbabwe have elected to bat first in the third and final ODI in Rawalpindi. The series has gone, but World Cup SUper League points are very much up for grabs, and to that end, Chamu Chibhabha's side will look to set a target on what appears another surface well ...