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Tim Robinson was elected Player of the Match.
New Zealand began with a win in the T20 TRAI series in Zimbabwe to defeat South Africa by 21 runs. At the same time, South Africa, who won the first match with Zimbabwe by 5 wickets, has suffered the first defeat. After this victory, the New Zealand team has come to the first place of the points table. The three teams participating in the series have to play 2-2 matches, that is, every team will play 4 matches.
On Wednesday, South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl at the Harare Sports Complex. New Zealand, batting first, scored 173 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. In response, South Africa team was all out for 152 runs in 18.2 overs. Matt Henry and Jacob Dafi took 3-3 wickets. On behalf of Keevis, Tim Robinson scored an unbeaten 75 on 57 balls. He was elected Player of the Match.
Africa lost 4 wickets in scoring 51 runs South Africa, who was chasing a target of 174 runs, was all out in 18.2 overs. The team needed 73 runs in the last 8 overs. However, the African team lost the last 4 wickets in scoring 51 runs. Dewald Brevis was dismissed by 35 runs on the last ball of the 12th over. Then South Africa had a score of 101/6. Brevis was sent to the pavilion by Matt Henry.
Dewald Bravis scored 35 runs on 18 balls. He was the top scorer of the team.
Run chase starts poorly, 3 batter out inside 50 South Africa made a poor start in the run chase. The team lost 3 wickets within 50 runs. Opener Loun Der Pratorius 27, Rubin Harman was dismissed for one and Reeja Hendrix 16 runs. Senuran Muthuswamy could also score 7 runs.
South Africa continued to lose wickets South Africa’s team kept losing wickets at regular intervals in Run Chase. There was no major partnership from the team. Which led to the first defeat of the African team. Matt Henry and Jacob Dafi took 3-3 wickets. Ish Sodhi got 2 successes. Mitchell Santner also got a wicket in the account.
Jacob Dafi took 3 wickets. He took the wickets of Rubin Harman, George Linde and Quena Mafaka.
New Zealand’s innings from here …
Poor starts, Openers Powerplay out of Powerplay New Zealand, who was batting after losing the toss, had a poor start. The team lost the first wicket on a score of 27 runs. Lungi Angidi, who is putting the third over, caught opener Tim Sifart, who scored 22 runs on 16 balls, caught by Senuran Muthuswamy. In the next over, Quen Mafa stumped Dwon Conway to Pretorius. The score of Keevis here was just 35 runs.
Quen Mafa stumped Dwon Conway to Pretorians.
Team kept losing wickets even in middle overs Tim Robinson, who landed on number-3, took the innings from one side, but the team lost wickets in the middle of the middle over. Derryl Mitchell was dismissed for 5 runs, Mitchell Hey 2 runs and Jimmy Neesham was dismissed for zero. At one time the team lost 5 wickets for 70 runs.
Robinson-Bewon’s partnership reached the score 173 After losing 5 wickets for 70 runs, Robinson got the support of Bowon Jacobs. The two shared an unbeaten 103 -run partnership on 63 balls for the sixth wicket. The partnership took the team score 173 runs.
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