India vs Zimbabwe 1st ODI

Rayudu century rescues India

Where: Harare, Zimbabwe
When: July 10 at 07:00GMT
Toss:  Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to field
Result:  India won by 4 runs
Scores: India 255 for 6 (Rayudu 124*, Binny 77, Chibhabha 2-25) beat Zimbabwe 251 for 7 (Chigumbura 104*, Axar 2-41)

The game was a thriller and was decided only on the last ball. India was struggling at 5/87 when Rayudu and Binny came together. Rayudu (124 no) and Binny (77) put together 180 runs and helped India reach a respectable score of 6/255. Zimbabwe could not get a good start either and were down for 4/94. Chigumbura fought hard with a ton but did not find good consistent support on the other end. Zimbabwe needed 10 off the final over with three wickets in hand. Chigumburacould only manage four runs off the first five balls and needed six of the last ball but could score only a single.

So close, yet so far for Zimbabwe.


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India chose to send a team with a lot of new players after losing their series with Bangladesh. Rahane will be leading the India ODI team for the first time. A few months ago Rahane was not even sure of his place in the team but now he has been given the captain's responsibility. Zimbabwe players are motivated since they sniff an opportunity since a lot of senior players are missing from the Indian team. However even with the missing players Indian team is still the favourite to win the 1st one day game.

India Team: AM Rahane*, STR Binny, Harbhajan Singh, KM Jadhav, DS Kulkarni, B Kumar, MK Pandey, AR Patel, AT Rayudu, Sandeep Sharma, KV Sharma, MM Sharma, MK Tiwary, RV Uthappa†, M Vijay