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Innings Zimbabwe 168 in 49.5 overs (Chigumbura 41, Bumrah 4-28) v India
Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details

Chamu Chibhabha did not move his feet and lost one of his stumps © Associated Press

The Harare Sports Club has always had soft spot for bowlers and India exploited it with great skill to knock Zimbabwe out for 168.

Clear blue skies and a pleasantly brown pitch welcomed the players, but captains were wary of the 9 am start. When it is that early in the day, especially in the Harare winter, the new ball tends to jag around. MS Dhoni made the correct call at the toss and his inexperienced quicks hit the correct lengths straight away. As a result, Zimbabwe’s innings went irreversibly wrong.

Barinder Sran, the left-arm quick who made his international debut only five months ago, was eying a wicket off the first ball he bowled on Saturday. An inswinger, full of length and given every opportunity to move through the air, had Chamu Chibhabha falling over while he tried to flick it through midwicket. Umpire Russell Tiffin turned that lbw appeal down, but could not deny Sran later in the over when he pinned the other opener Peter Moor in front of the stumps.

Meanwhile, Dhawal Kulkarni, one of India’s premier fast bowlers in domestic cricket, was leaving squared-up batsmen staring at the pitch and wondering where all away movement was coming from. Jasprit Bumrah posed a different threat to the Zimbabwe batsmen. His powerful arm action and a tendency to hit the deck contributed to extra bounce, even off a good length. Besides that, as his dismissal of Chibhabha proved, the angle and pace he generates into the right-hander often puts the stumps at risk. He finished with 4 for 28 off 10 overs.

As such, Zimbabwe’s decision to save wickets rather than scour for runs had merit. They consumed 46 dot balls in the Powerplay. But biding time in limited-overs cricket makes sense only if the batsmen to follow can execute their shots.

Vusi Sibanda got a short and wide delivery from Bumrah in the 20th over and nicked it to the wicketkeeper. Craig Ervine picked out deep midwicket, instead of the boundary beyond him, when he was presented with a long hop from left-arm spinner Axar Patel in the 24th over. Even Sikandar Raza, one of only two batsmen to face more than 50 deliveries, ushered a ball that was there for the drive back onto his stumps.

With wickets falling, especially in such soft fashion, Zimbabwe were in a constant state of rebuild and India didn’t need to do much more than adhere to the basics. Given the new ball, Sran bowled only five short balls in his first spell of six overs. The spinners bowled stump to stump. Axar had a straight field, with long-off and long-on back and Yuzvendra Chahal, one of three debutants along with Karun Nair and KL Rahul, had all the more incentive to target middle and off with the batsmen unable to read his legbreak from his googly. The two of them gave away only 53 runs in 20 overs and picked up a couple of wickets too.

Zimbabwe were limping past 100, with five men down, but Elton Chigumbura did his best to marshal the lower order. He found only four of his 41 runs in boundaries but was keen to push balls down the ground and cut the ones that gave him width. But his progress – and the final four wickets lingering on for nearly 15 overs – indicated the pitch had eased out and had Zimbabwe channeled better intent, they might have lived up to their interim coach Makhaya Ntini’s threat of putting second-string teams ‘under the carpet’ a little better.

Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo

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