India cruised to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first T20 international in Harare<\/p>\n
Teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored his maiden half-century in international cricket when he smashed 50 from 19 \u200cballs to steer India to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first \u200cT20I in Harare.<\/p>\n
After Zimbabwe were sent in to bat on Thursday, the home \u200cside managed 125 for seven in their 20 overs, a total that was never likely to trouble the tourists, who chased it down with 40 balls remaining.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old Sooryavanshi was at his destructive best as he hit four fours and four \u200csixes on the \u200clarge Harare \u2060Sports Club ground before being caught at deep third \u200boff a top edge from the bowling of Richard Ngarava (1-30).<\/p>\n
Sooryavanshi improved his previous best international score of 15 after he debuted in England earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Kishan and Sooryavanshi top scored as India eased to their 126-run target \/\/ AFP via Getty<\/p>\n
“The boys were tremendous,” India captain Shreyas Iyer said. “Couldn’t have been \u2060happier with my first win (as captain). There \u200cwas \u200bbounce from good length and it was also variable.<\/p>\n
“We are going to play \u200btwo more matches \u200chere, so today’s performance gives everyone some confidence. I think Vaibhav has \u200bplayed here, he got 175 in the Under-19 World Cup final, so he knows the conditions.”<\/p>\n
Iyer chipped in with an unbeaten 28 from 24 balls \u200band \u200bIshan Kishan managed 35 from \u200b24 deliveries as India coasted home.<\/p>\n
Wessly Madhevere (39 \u200cruns from 34 balls) was the only Zimbabwe batter to post a score of substance.<\/p>\n
Batter Ben Curran (10) and medium pacer Newman Nyamhuri (0-30) made their T20 debuts for the home side, with seamer Ashok Sharma (0-29) also appearing for the first time in \u200binternational cricket for India.<\/p>\n
The second match is scheduled for Saturday and the \u200bthree-game series will conclude \u2060a day later. Both fixtures are in Harare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India cruised to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first T20 international in Harare Teenager Vaibhav…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-819676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}