Zimbabwe vs Australia 4th ODI Match 2014

209
50 Overs
Michael Clarke
68(102)
Brad Haddin
49(66)
Donald Tiripan..
34/2
Sean Williams
21/2
211/7
48 Overs
Elton Chigumbu..
52(68)
Brendan Taylor
32(26)
Nathan Lyon
44/4
Mitchell Starc
41/2

Zimbabwe wins an ODI against Australia after 31 years - The 4th match of the tri series was played between the home side Zimbabwe and Australia. The Zimbabwe team was pretty close to win the match against South Africa last time and the home crowd hoped that this time around they will be victorious. After winning the toss the Australians decided to bat first. They didn’t get to a good start as they were left at a score of 97/5. Only Michael Clarke who remained focused in the batting. The Zimbabwe team was on a role as the bowlers kept on taking wickets. Michael Clarke scored 68 runs before getting retired out in the 43rd over of the game leaving his team to a total of 147/5. Brad Haddin scored 49 runs while Ben Cutting made a special contribution to the team as with his runs the team managed to score 209 runs in 50 overs. Sean Williams was the top bowler who took 2 wickets giving away 21 runs.

The Zimbabwe team looked all pumped up after the good bowling performance. In the 23rd over of the game the team managed to cross the score of 100 after losing 3 wickets. It seemed that the result of the previous match will again be repeated as Zimbabwe lost many wickets similar to what happened against South Africa. The team found themselves standing at 156/7. It was Elton Chigumbura and Prosper Utseya who together managed to stop the fall of wickets. Chigumbura scored an unbeaten 52 runs and Utseya scored 30 runs. They together took their team to win against Australia. This win came after 31 years for the home side. Nathan Lyon took 4 wickets in the game. Elton Chigumbura won the man of the match award for scoring the winning runs.

Series Name

Australia South Africa Zimbabwe Triangular ODI Series 2014 Schedule

Date

31/08/2014

Start Time

9:30 (Local Time)

Match Day

Sunday

Stadium

Harare Sports Club

Playing Teams

Zimbabwe, Australia

Zimbabwe Team Squad

Malcolm Waller,	Prosper Utseya,	Tino Mawoyo,
Hamilton Masakadza,	Tendai Chatara,	Brendan Taylor,
Sean Williams,	Elton Chigumbura,	Sikandar Raza,
Donald Tiripano,	John Nyumbu,

Australia Team Squad

Michael Clarke,	Mitchell Starc,	Nathan Lyon,
Glenn Maxwell,	Phillip Hughes,	Brad Haddin,
Mitchell Marsh,	James Faulkner,	Aaron Finch,
George Bailey,	Ben Cutting,

Zimbabwe vs Australia 4th ODI Match 2014

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