Last Update on: June 25th, 2023 at 10:39 am
Zimbabwe notched up a memorable win at the ICC World Cup Qualifiers against West Indies at Harare Sports Club on June 24. The Chevrons won the match by 35 runs as West Indies were bowled out for 233 chasing 269 runs to win.
This is West Indies’ second humiliating loss in recent times. Windies being knocked out during the T20 World Cup qualifiers in October last year was another major loss for the side in recent times.
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Zimbabwe scored 268 batting first with the fifties from Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl. Craig Ervins the Zimbabwean skipper scored 47. Keemo Paul took three wickets. Alzarri Joseph and Akeal Hosein took two each.
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West Indies in response were bowled out for 233 with Kyle Mayers scoring 56. Roston Chase scored 44, Nicholas Pooran scored 34 and skipper Shai Hope scored 30. Tendai Chatara picked three wickets, Blessing Musarbani, and Richard Ngarava took two wickets. Sikandar Raza took two wickets including the final wicket of West Indies.
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Watch – Sean Williams, Sikandar Raza Console Akeal Hosein After West Indies Handed Shocking Loss By Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe broke into huge celebrations after Raza took the final wicket. The likes of Sean Williams, and Sikandar Raza were seen consoling Akeal Hosein as all the West Indies players were dejected. There was ecstasy in the Zimbabwe camp and agony in the Windies camp.
“To be honest, too much is in my mind right now. Certainly a lot of hurt and disappointment. We let ourselves in the field. We want to play our best cricket, today we didn’t do that. We let the chances slip. But we have to look at the positive as well. If we had to chase around 260, we would have taken that as a batting group. But we let ourselves down and we still have a lot of work to do and the tournament is not over yet. There will be challenges on and off the field, trying to get the guys motivated will be a challenge” said Hope.
“We need to be hard on ourselves. It is best to have a day off and get this loss out of the system, we to come hard come Monday and no excuses. Catches let us down, plain and simple. We’ve been asking to boys to create chances, they did that today but we let ourselves down. And then with the bat. If we had 260 to chase before the game started we would have happily taken that” said Windies skipper Shai Hope after the loss saying that there is no excuse for this loss.
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