Mire in vain – NewsDay Zimbabwe



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SOLOMON Mire broke Hamilton Masakadza's record for the highest individual score of a Zimbabwean in T-20, but this was in vain as the hosts lost the spot for the Sunday final with a defeat Seven at Harare Sports Club, which will be fighting money against Australia at the same place this weekend.

Mire, who was named the man of the match, scored 94 points on 63 balls and surpassed Masakadza's record of 93 points.

Masakadza also has some 79 on this list while Brendan Taylor's record is 75.

Zimbabwe had to win yesterday to keep its interest in the final, but the defeat canceled out its hopes.

Pakistan raised eight points ahead of its meeting at the Harare Sports Club this morning, while Zimbabwe still has not won after three matches.

Zimbabwe will play its last game of the series against Australia at the same place tomorrow.

Yesterday Zimbabwe sought to improve its performance following the heavy defeats of the two cricket giants in their first matches.

The day before, Mire had spoken of the Zimbabwe hitters taking the lead and failing to cash in.

Yesterday, he managed to concoct an entertaining blow that, however, arrived in front of a sparsely populated stadium on a freezing morning.

A century was there for the taking, but he could seize the missed opportunity He kept his wicket longer.

Cephas Zhuwawo was the new opening partner of Mire yesterday after the fall of Chamu Chibhabha

The explosive drummer played his role after Zimbabwe was sent for bat.

He went from 26 balls before becoming the first scalp in Pakistan.

Zimbabwe continued to regularly rack up its wickets after Masakadza fell early for two points and Tarisai Musakanda made 33 of 22 while Elton Chigumbura (5 not) and Malcom Waller out out) saw the overs with Zimbabwe finishing on 162 for 4.

The few fans in the stadium were preparing or a possible win but Pakistan seemed comfortable in their pursuit as they accomplished with five balls to spare.

Fakhar who scored 47, Haris Sohail (16) and Hussain Talat (44).

Safraz and Shoaib Malik remained undefeated respectively 38 and 12.

Mire, Wellington Masakadza and Chris Mpofu shared all three wickets. 659002] Hamilton said the team should have had about 15 more points.

"It was a much better performance today and we are satisfied with it, but I thought we could have done better in the last few rounds of our batter and in the end we were about 10 at 15 points

"We are looking forward to the next game, we do not play much in international cricket and Friday's game is very important for us even though we have not managed to qualify." [19659021] window .___ gcfg = {lang: -in-US & # 39;
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