Cricket LIVE update: Zimbabwe overwhelm Canada in the battle of minnows at Nagpur
ZIM 298/9 in 50 overs CAN 127 all out
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vidarbha-c860 Cricket Association ground in Nagpur.
Batting first the Zimbabweans rattled a big total almost reaching the 300 run mark. Their blip was made possible through a splendid knock by former captain wicket-keeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tatenda-Taibu-c92882 who scored 98 off only 99 balls striking 9 fours in the process.
The Africans started on a negative note losing their opener Brendan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 without scoring on the very first ball of the match. Charles Coventry was sent packing with only 4 runs on the board; from there on the Zimbabweans consolidated their innings with Taibu taking the attack to the opposition. He shared a major partnership with Chris Ervine; the two added 181 runs for the third wicket.
Ervine was in flowing form, scoring 85 runs off only 81 balls. He was dismissed by Balaji Rao after smashing 6 fours and 2 sixes in his knock.
The last few Zimbabwean batsmen pushed the score close to the 300 mark, for the Canadians spinner Balaji Rao chipped in with 4 scalps each, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khurram-Chohan-c1791 took 2 wickets for his team.
The Canadians were never in the hunt after losing their top order cheaply, they had lost their first 8 batsmen with less than 100 runs on the board.
They were teetering on the brink at 97/8 in the 35th over of the innings, the only player to offer some resistance to the Zimbabweans was Zubin Surkai who top scored with 26 runs that included 2 hits to the fence.
The innings ended in the 43rd over of the innings with the team score, a paltry 123. The Zimbabweans won the match by a whopping 175 runs margin gaining 3 valuable points in the process.
Ray http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Price-c82662 and Graeme Cremer chipped in with 3 scalps each, the man of the match award was handed over to Taibu for his brilliant knock at the top of the innings.
The Canadians have lost both their World Cup matches thus far with big margins they would be hoping to stem the rot against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391.
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