#Bouncer jobs series

Once more, amid the need for repair and recovery at 31 for 4, Zimbabwe played too many needlessly audacious strokes. With some crucial breakthroughs initially, helped India wrap up Zimbabwe's innings for 1️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ 🤩 #ShardulThakur #TeamIndia #ZIMvIND #SirfSonyPeDikhega /Yhe8OgTPBp Out of nowhere, in the same over, Thakur produced a curling beauty, angling it in and forcing Chakabva to play as it kicked and left him to fly to second slip.

On Saturday, the skipper arrived at No 4 now but lasted all of five balls. Thakur got it right at the start of his third over, though, getting it to climb into Innocent Kaia, who gloved his pull to the keeper.īy the time Regis Chakabva had walked in on Thursday, Zimbabwe were already 31 for 4, and he’d flailed his way to a futile 35 even as he started to run out of partners.

India had been trying the surprise short ball every now and then too, but despite getting into awkward positions as it flew at them, the Zimbabweans had been escaping. Kaitano hung his bat at another straightener from Siraj, and wicketkeeper Sanju Samson plucked it one-handed with a dive to his right. On Thursday, the initial breach had happened in the seventh over, on Saturday, that was achieved in the ninth. Like it had in the first ODI, it even worked for a while there was no extravagant movement to counter too in the absence of Chahar, although Mohammed Siraj began with an over of lovely outswingers. They even made a change in the opening combination, bringing in Takudzwanashe Kaitano for Tadiwanashe Marumani, and again, tried only to blunt the new balls, without looking to score. #TeamIndia win by 5 wickets and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. But instead, they had to face the Indian pacers first again, and to add to their misfortune, the bounce on this surface was sharper and heavier than it was in the first ODI.

#Bouncer jobs series

Zimbabwe’s best chance to rattle India in this series was to win the toss and hopefully pick up a few early wickets with the moving ball in the 9.15am start. However, his absence made no difference to Zimbabwe’s fortunes, as Chahar’s replacement Shardul Thakur also snapped up three wickets to send the hosts tumbling to 161 all out in 38.1 overs. Deepak Chahar – who’d run through the Zimbabwe top order with 3/27 in the first ODI to end a six-month injury layoff – was left out on Saturday, probably to avoid playing three ODIs in five days immediately upon comeback.