Zimbabwe stun West Indies to storm into Super Sixes with full points

Zimbabwe 268 (Raza 68, Burl 50, Paul 3-61) beat West Indies 233 (Mayers 56, Chase 44, Chatara 3-52) through 35 runs

Before the game, West Indies have been favourites. At the midway mark, West Indies remained favourites. And at the halfway factor of the chase, West Indies had been arguably even more advantageous favourites. Yet, somehow, improbably, preposterously, it is Zimbabwe that emerged winners by means of 35 runs, in the front of a raucous crowd in Harare.

By advantage of this win, Zimbabwe raise over a robust internet run price into the subsequent round, and two factors from this recreation as properly as the identical from their win in opposition to Netherlands. With a difficult recreation in opposition to Sri Lanka to come in the Super Sixes stage, these ought to show quintessential in boosting their qualification probabilities - the pinnacle two groups from the Super Sixes e book their passage to India for the World Cup.

West Indies and Netherlands, the different two groups that are via to the Super Sixes from this group, will now struggle to raise over two essential factors themselves when they meet on Monday.

WI fined for gradual over-rate

The complete West Indies enjoying XI have been fined 60% of their suit price for retaining a sluggish over-rate towards Zimbabwe. They have been observed to be three overs brief of the goal after time allowances have been taken into consideration.

Players are fined 20% of their fit charge for each over their aspect fails to bowl in the disbursed time. Match Referee Muhammad Javed imposed the sanctions.

The stats from these days will exhibit that Sikandar Raza was once but once more Player of the Match, choosing up two wickets to go with his 58-ball sixty eight It will exhibit that the under-fire Tendai Chatara with figures used to be three for fifty two was once the pick out of the Zimbabwe bowlers. And it will exhibit Alzarri Joseph with an inconsequential two for forty two But this a recreation that took area inside the margins.

It all commenced alternatively cagily, with Zimbabwe put into bat on a proper batting tune however one that used to be anticipated to grant some early motion for the seamers. The West Indies seamers, specially Joseph, exploited the beneficial stipulations expertly, deriving more jump off a correct size and transferring the ball in the air and off the surface. While it wasn't precisely an overcast morning in Harare, it despite the fact that introduced out the greater cautious aspect of openers Joylord Gumbie and Craig Ervine. By the stop of the tenth over they had reached simply 37.

West Indies were playing the part in the field too, hurrying behind every lost cause and throwing themselves around to gain any edge. The pressure eventually would tell midway through the 15th over, when Ervine would chip an attempted loft straight to mid-on. But the chance would be spilled - a theme that would recur throughout the innings.

Ervine would eventually fall for 47, but that was 22 extra runs from the point he was dropped. These extra runs would add up. The most egregious missed opportunities though would come off Raza, who was dropped on 1 and 7 off Joseph on the way to what would be a match-winning 68. Ryan Burl would be the other batter to enjoy a second life, being grassed on 39 on his way a fifth ODI fifty.