India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal (left) leads Shubman Gill (right) after scoring the winning run during the fourth T20 international cricket match between Zimbabwe and India at the Harare Sports Club in Harare on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Jekesai Ndzikizana/AFP)
July 13, 2024
Chasing Zimbabwe’s 152 for seven, India won emphatically with 28 balls remaining to take a 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
Left-handed Jaiswal scored 93 not out off 53 balls and was adjudged man of the match, while Gill made 58 not out off 39 balls.
“It was something we talked about, to get after it,” Gill said during the post-match presentation. “We weren’t able to do it in the first game, so it was good to be able to do it.”
Zimbabwe won the first match last Saturday by 13 runs but India have since taken control, dominating the next three matches.
Captain Sikandar Raza scored 46 off 28 balls but Zimbabwe could not capitalise on their strong start to the series.
Wesley Madhewere (25) and Tadiwanashe Malumani (32) put on 63 for the first wicket after Zimbabwe were put into bat, but the openers were felled in succession by part-time bowlers Abhishek Sharma and Shivam Dube.
India again opted to field only four specialist bowlers, including new international Tushar Despande, who conceded 30 runs in his three overs but took the wicket of Raza.
After his team batted, Raza thought 160 would have been the standard score but admitted: “The way they batted, 180 wouldn’t have been enough.”
Jaiswal hit three boundaries off Richard Ngarava to set the tone in India’s first innings.
India’s momentum was unstoppable, with fifties scored within four overs and a hundred within ten.
Jaiswal hit 13 fours and two sixes while Gill hit six fours and two sixes.
The series will conclude with the fifth T20 in Harare on Sunday.
