Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

TM Head
TM Head
112(84) 15x4 - 3x6
Control %85%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 19 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
4 5 12 5 27 21 22 16
CPL Connolly
CPL Connolly
78(69) 3x4 - 3x6
Control %91%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 14 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
1 1 8 4 16 18 13 17

Best performances - Bowlers

B Evans
B Evans
O9
M0
R86
W3
Eco9.55
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
1W
CPL Connolly
CPL Connolly
O6.1
M0
R25
W2
Eco4.05
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Alex Malcolm

That completes our coverage of the second ODI. Australia claim the series. They will chase the sweep on Sunday. Hope you can join us then.

5.05pm Presentation

Australia captain Mitchell Marsh: "We thought it was a complete performance from the boys. The way Travis batted gave us a platform for the middle order. It was great to see Cooper Connolly and Peakey play roles like that and then obviously we had Billy Stanlake go down and our part timers and allrounders really stepped up in those conditions. No update yet on Billy but hopefully he's OK."

Player of the match is Travis Head: "It was nice to spend some time in the middle and spend some time out there with Mitch. We didn't train for a couple of days which was good actually. We'd done a fair bit of training going into the series. It was nice to be fresh. We just tried to be aggressive and impact the game."

Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza: "I think bowling first was the right decision. There was seam and carry in the wicket. Credit to Travis and Mitch Marsh. They put us under pressure.The boys tried but their skills, even some of our good balls went for boundaries. Sometimes when two of the world's best get going it's hard to control at times. I thought 350 was too much. 300-310 was chasable."

4.57pm Australia win by 84 runs and claim the series 2-0. Far too good from start to finish. It was set-up by a 75-ball century from Travis Head. Half-centuries from Marsh and Connolly kept the momentum going and Peake's 18-ball cameo of 41 not out pushed them to 356 for 6. Zimbabwe's batters all got started but all scored too slowly and none got to 50. The wickets were shared among Australia's bowlers after they lost Billy Stanlake to a side strain. Adam Zampa took his 200th ODI scalp while Peake got his first.

48.3
W
Connolly to Muzarabani, OUT, clean bowled! Drifting in and sliding on, he swings hard but it sneaks through the gate and crashes into middle and off

B Muzarabani b Connolly 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

48.2
W
Connolly to Sikandar Raza, OUT, holes out to long-off! Tossed up on off, he tries launch straight but slices it long-off and Renshaw takes a simple catch five metres in from the rope

Sikandar Raza c Renshaw b Connolly 45 (76m 49b 5x4 0x6) SR: 91.83

48.1
0
Connolly to Sikandar Raza, no run, yorker on leg, he jams the bat down

END OF OVER:
48 | 5 Runs | ZIM: 272/8 (85 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 5.66, RRR: 42.50)

  • Sikandar Raza45 (47b)
  • Wellington Masakadza10 (8b)
  • Adam Zampa9-0-62-2
  • Cooper Connolly5.4-0-25-0
47.6
1
Zampa to Sikandar Raza, 1 run, charges a length leg break, he drives on the up to deep cover
47.5
1
Zampa to Masakadza, 1 run, skied back over the bowler's head and Zampa can't get to it. Deceived by the wrong un, he tried to slog sweep but gets away with it as it lands safe
47.4
0
Zampa to Masakadza, no run, full on leg, he whips it to midwicket

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st46BJ CurranBJ Bennett
2nd14I KaiaBJ Curran
3rd55BRM TaylorI Kaia
4th44BRM TaylorCR Ervine
5th28CR ErvineSikandar Raza
6th31Sikandar RazaB Evans
7th35Sikandar RazaW Madhevere
8th2Sikandar RazaNT Nyamhuri
9th17Sikandar RazaWP Masakadza
10th0WP MasakadzaB Muzarabani