Zimbabwe ‘A’ Team Tri-Series - Zimbabwe XI v South Africa A – 1st Innings Recap
The 3rd Match of the Zimbabwe ‘A’ Team Tri-Series was scheduled at Harare on July 3, 2011, between South Africa ‘A’ and Zimbabwe XI.
The fixture started at 0900 local time at the Harare Sports Club. South Africa A won the toss and elected to bat as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LE-Bosman-c1832 opened the innings for the visiting team.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 XI opened the bowling spell for the hosts. The 23-year pacer struck in the 4th over and bowled out Bosman at a meagre total of 8.
This was a huge blow for the guests and they lost an experienced opener in the first spell and were consequently lingering at 8/1.
The next in line was left-handed batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rilee-Roscoe-Rossouw-c85431, who was caught out at a slow delivery by off-spinner Utseya, in the 12th over.
Rilee’s successor, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JL-Ontong-c1704, was another victim of Utseya’s dangerous bowling and was given leg-before-wicket after contributing just 5 runs to the total.
After the early collapse, South Africa A was 52/3 after 16 overs.
Wicketkeeper-batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Heino-Gunther-Kuhn-c62168, came in to support the skipper and together they added 116 runs to the score-board in the next 21.4 overs. Playing at a run rate of 5.35, these two players took South Africa to a total of 168/3.
The South African skipper was just 2 runs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 of his century when he was caught out by Zimbabwe’s wicket-keeper, off a delivery by Mpofu.
Rudolph left the crease at a score of 187/5 and was followed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lawson-Miller-c53037, who could only score 2 runs, leaving the team at 189/6.
The seventh-wicket partnership between Merwe and Philander added 25 runs to the total until Merwe was caught out off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757’s total had reached 214.
Utseya was the highlight of Zimbabwe’s bowling attack with four wickets.
The South African’s ended their innings at a total of 238/9 in 50 overs.
The Zimbabwean’s will be chasing 239 at a run rate of 4.76 runs per over as skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 and Sibanda will open innings.
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