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Venue : Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur
Toss : Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat
Umpires : Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal)
Match Result : Ireland won by 4 wickets
Zimbabwe (50 Overs Maximum)
Brendan Taylor c Wilson b Johnston 1 (7)
Charles Coventry c Wilson b Rankin 5 (16)
Tatenda Taibu (C) c White b van der Merwe 45 (78) 2 ‘4s’
Sean Williams c Wilson b Johnston 3 (12)
Craig Ervine run out (van der Merwe/Wilson) 27 (53) 3 ‘4s’
Elton Chigumbura (WK) not out 103 (81) 8 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Prosper Utseya c White b Botha 26 (40) 2 ‘4s’
Shingirai Masakadza c van der Merwe b Botha 1 (6)
Graeme Cremer b Cusack 6 (5)
Greg Lamb not out 7 (3) 1 ‘4s’
Ray Price
Edward Rainsford
Extras : 20 (7 lb, 1 nb, 12 w)
Total : 244/8 (50.0 Overs)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (Taylor, 1.4 ov), 2-7 (Coventry, 4.2 ov), 3-12 (Williams, 7.3 ov), 4-74 (Ervine, 24.3 ov), 5-100 (Taibu, 31.1 ov), 6-154 (Utseya, 42.5 ov), 7-162 (Masakadza, 44.2 ov), 8-209 (Cremer, 47.6 ov)
Ireland Bowling
Rankin 9-1-49-1 (5w 1nb)
Johnston 5-2-9-2
Mooney 5-0-13-0
Kevin O’Brien 3-0-17-0 (1w)
Dockrell 6-0-27-0
van der Merwe 7-0-28-1
Botha 10-0-58-2 (1w)
Cusack 5-0-36-1 (1w)
Ireland (Target : 245 from 50 Overs)
Paul Stirling c Ervine b Masakadza 0 (4)
Niall O’Brien c Masakadza b Price 15 (22) 2 ‘4s’
Alex Cusack c Chigumbura b Cremer 47 (67) 5 ‘4s’
Andre Botha c Cremer b Masakadza 79 (101) 5 ‘4s’
Andrew White b Williams 19 (31) 1 ‘4s’
Kevin O’Brien not out 62 (61) 6 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Gary Wilson (WK) c Lamb b Price 7 (7)
John Mooney not out 5 (4) 1 ‘4s’
Trent Johnston (C)
George Dockrell
Boyd Rankin
Albert van der Merwe
Extras : 11 (1 b, 6 lb, 4 w)
Total : 245/6 (49.3 Overs)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (Stirling, 0.4 ov), 2-40 (Niall O’Brien, 9.5 ov), 3-87 (Cusack, 21.3 ov), 4-127 (White, 31.2 ov), 5-226 (Botha, 46.5 ov), 6-239 (Wilson, 48.5 ov)
Zimbabwe Bowling
Rainsford 0.1-0-0-0
Masakadza 6.2-0-39-2 (3w)
Utseya 10-0-34-0
Price 10-0-37-2
Lamb 10-1-52-0 (1w)
Cremer 9-0-58-1
Taylor 2-0-9-0
Williams 2-0-9-1