ZIM vs SCO, Match Report: Today, Scotland’s challenge was in front of Zimbabwe in the World Cup qualifiers. In this match, Scotland defeated the hosts Zimbabwe. At the same time, after this defeat, Zimbabwe’s dream of playing the World Cup in 2023 has been shattered. Zimbabwe, captained by Sean Williams, has missed qualifying for the World Cup.
Ryan Burl’s brilliant innings went in vain.
On the other hand, talking about this match, Zimbabwe had a target of 235 runs to win, but Sean Williams’ team was reduced to just 203 runs in 41.1 overs. In this way, Scotland defeated Zimbabwe by 31 runs. Ryan Burl played a brilliant inning for Zimbabwe. But could not reach his team to the threshold of victory. Ryan Burl played an inning of 83 runs in 84 balls. He hit 8 fours and 1 six in his innings. Apart from this, Sikandar Raza scored 34 runs in 40 balls. He hit 2 fours and 1 six in his innings. But the rest of the batsmen of the host team disappointed.
Zimbabwe batsmen disappointed
6 Zimbabwe batsmen could not cross the double figure. On the other hand, talking about the bowlers of Scotland, Chris Sole was the most successful bowler. Chris Soul took maximum 3 wickets. Apart from this, Brandon McMullan and Michael Leask got 2-2 success. While Safyaan Sharif, Mark Waite and Chris Graves took 1-1 wickets.
The condition of the match was like this
Earlier, Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams won the toss and decided to bowl. After losing the toss, Scotland, electing to bat first, scored 234 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs. Michael Leask scored the highest 48 runs for Scotland. While apart from this, Matthew Cross and Brendon McCullum contributed 38 and 43 runs respectively. Captain Sean Williams took the most 3 wickets for Zimbabwe. Tendal Chatara took 2 wickets in his name. While Richard Ngarwa got 1 success.
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