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Delhi: Today the second T20 match is being held between Zimbabwe and India at Harare Sports Club in Harare. Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza won the toss and chose to bowl first and India scored 219 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma had important contributions in raising this total. Zimbabwe has got a huge target of 220 runs to win and stay in the series.

Abhishek, Vaibhav and Shreyas were dealt with cheaply.

After losing the toss and coming to bat first, Team India had a very bad start. Explosive batsman Abhishek Sharma was dismissed cheaply in the second T20 also. He contributed 8 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi definitely played some good shots, but he could not stay at the crease. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was able to score 20 runs in 9 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six.

By the score of 29, both the openers had returned to the pavilion. After this, Ishan Kishan and captain Shreyas Iyer took charge and made an important partnership of 66 runs for the third wicket and took the team’s score beyond 90. Brian Bennett broke. 25 runs came off Iyer’s bat.

Ishaan Kishan and Tilak Verma created a ruckus

Even after Iyer was out, Ishaan continued his stormy innings. He did not allow the Zimbabwean bowlers to stand in front of him and hit many attractive shots. Ishaan completed his half-century in 30 balls. He now has 12 half-centuries to his name in T20I. Whereas, Tilak Verma took 30 balls to complete his half-century. There was a partnership of 94 runs for the fourth wicket between Ishaan and Tilak.

Ishaan missed a century

Looking at the way Ishan Kishan was batting, it seemed that he would easily complete his century, but it did not happen. Ishaan missed completing his century by 19 runs. Newman Nyamahuri dismissed him on a personal score of 81 runs. Ishaan’s innings included 9 fours and 2 sixes.

Zimbabwe got the target of 220 runs to win

Tilak Verma remained unbeaten till the end. He scored unbeaten 60 runs in 29 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Rinku Singh could contribute only 12 runs and Shivam Dubey scored 6 unbeaten runs.

For Zimbabwe, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Nagarava, Brad Evans, Newman Nyamahuri and Brian Bennett got 1 wicket each. To win, Zimbabwe will have to score 220 runs in 120 balls.