HARARE: India wonderkid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored a maiden Twenty20 Interna\u00adtional half-century in a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Harare on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put in to bat after losing the toss in the first of three matches, Zimbabwe made a meagre 125-7 in 20 overs with all-rounder Wessly Madhevere (39) top scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Led by 15-year-old prodigy Soorya\u00advanshi, who struck four sixes and four fours in an 18-ball 50, India cruised to 126-3 with 40 balls to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sooryavanshi became the youngest cricketer to represent India by debuting in a 4-0 T20I drubbing by England this month. He scored 42 runs in three innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After his whirlwind 50 in Harare, Sooryavanshi was out when he got a thick outside edge to a Richard Ngarava delivery and was caught at deep third man by Ben Curran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He departed with the tourists 68-2. Then, wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan (35) and unbe\u00adaten captain Shreyas Iyer (28 not out) ensured India ended a dismal recent T20I run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before four losses in England, one by an Indian record 125 runs, the reigning T20I world champions lost another series 2-0 in Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victory at Harare Sports Club was a welcome relief for Iyer \u2014 it ended a seven-match winless run since he inherited the captaincy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think the boys were tremendous. Could not have been happier with my first win,\u201d the skipper told reporters. \u201cThere was bounce from a good length and it was also variable. I felt it was there in both innings. We are going to play two more matches here, so this performance gives everyone some confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madhevere was run out after a 58-run sixth-wicket stand with Tadiwanashe Marumani (27 not out). An unwise attempt to secure a second run led to his downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scoreboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ZIMBABWE: B. Bennett c Kishan b M. Yadav 0 B. Curran c Sooryavanshi b P. Yadav 10 D. Myers c Dube b M. Yadav 6 S. Raza c (sub) b Dube 4 R. Burl c Varma b Bishnoi 26 W. Madhevere run out 39 T. Marumani not out 27 B. Evans c Iyer b P. Yadav 0 N. Nyamhuri not out 1 EXTRAS (LB-3, NB-1, W-8) 12 TOTAL (for seven wkts, 20 overs) 125 DID NOT BAT: R. Ngarava, B. Muzarabani FALL OF WICKETS: 1-0 (Bennett), 2-19 (Curran), 3-20 (Myers), 4-32 (Raza), 5-64 (Burl), 6-122 (Madhevere), 7-122 (Evans) BOWLING: M. Yadav 4-0-18-2 (2w, 1nb), Ashok 4-0-29-0 (2w), P. Yadav 4-0-19-2 (2w), Dube 4-0-32-1, Bishnoi 4-0-24-1 (2w) INDIA: A. Sharma c Evans b Muzarabani 1 V. Sooryavanshi c Curran b Ngarava 50 I. Kishan c Myers b Muzarabani 35 S. Iyer not out 28 T. Varma not out 6 EXTRAS (W-6) 6 TOTAL (for three wkts, 13.2 overs) 126 DID NOT BAT: R. Singh, S. Dube, R. Bishnoi, P. Yadav, M. Yadav, Ashok Sharma FALL OF WICKETS: 1-23 (A. Sharma), 2-68 (Sooryavanshi), 3-114 (Kishan) BOWLING: Muzarabani 4-0-26-2 (1w), Ngarava 2.2-0-30-1 (2w), Evans 2-0-26-0 (1w), Nyamhuri 2-0-30-0 (2w), Raza 3-0-14-0 RESULT: India won by seven wickets. MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Mayank Yadav<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HARARE: India wonderkid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored a maiden Twenty20 Interna\u00adtional half-century in a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Harare on Thursday. Put in to bat..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833.png",459,467,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833-295x300.png",295,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833.png",459,467,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833.png",459,467,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833.png",459,467,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-090833.png",459,467,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}