New Delhi. The fourth match of the 5-match T20 series is to be played between India and Zimbabwe this evening. The Indian team is currently leading 2-1 and would like to win this match and capture the series. On the other hand, Zimbabwe will try to stop India from taking an unassailable lead. In this match, the captain of the host team, Sikandar Raza, will create history by scoring 17 runs. He will become the first batsman from Zimbabwe to score 2000 runs in T20 International.
After winning the ICC T20 World Cup, the Indian team is making its first foreign tour to Zimbabwe. A team full of new players has arrived here under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. After losing the first match, India made a strong comeback and won two consecutive matches. Now Team India is 1 win away from gaining an unassailable lead in the series. The host team, which is playing in a do or die match, will want to stop Team India’s victory chariot at all costs.
Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza can make a big record in the fourth T20 match against India. He can become the first batsman in Zimbabwe’s history to score 2000 T20 International runs. This batsman, who played his first T20 International match for Zimbabwe in 2006, has scored 1983 runs in 89 T20 matches at a strike rate of 133.26. Raza is just 17 runs away from touching the 2000 mark. The Zimbabwe captain, who has scored runs at an average of 24.78 in this format, has scored 14 half-centuries.
The series has been average
So far in this series against India, Sikandar Raza’s performance with the bat has not been anything special. In the first T20, he scored 17 runs while in the second match he was out for just 4 runs. In the third T20 match, Sikandar Raza had 15 runs in his account.
FIRST PUBLISHED : July 13, 2024, 15:05 IST