Hardik, Tilak set up India-Windies showdown | IND v ZIM | T20 World Cup
2/27/202621 min
India bully Zimbabwe, everyone scores runs and we are all set up for an India-Windies blockbuster.
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First 90 secondsIan Higgins· Host0:00
Well, India keep their hopes alive with a stunning victory against Zimbabwe, and somehow this tournament gets worse and worse for Australia. [chuckles] This calls for a barter. [upbeat music] Yes, that's right, India keep their hopes alive with a, uh, predictable victory, I suppose, against Zimbabwe, who have tried their best. Brian Bennett outstanding, I suppose. Didn't face enough balls in the end. But, uh, everyone got a hit for India. Uh, they made 256 for four off their 20 overs, and that felt like it was about a million too many, and so it proved to be. Uh, Peza, this was, uh, it was expected, it was clinical. Maybe the score was a little higher than what we might have guessed but, uh, it was, it was good from, it was good from India. It was good.
Sam Perry· Host0:45
Dramatically, it's the end of the African century, uh, I have to say.
Ian Higgins· Host0:48
Well- Um, uh, well, one part of Africa.
Sam Perry· Host0:51
[laughs] Anyway, another part going quite well.
Ian Higgins· Host0:52
Quite well.
Sam Perry· Host0:53
Going quite well. I've got a quote about that later.
Ian Higgins· Host0:54
Okay.
Sam Perry· Host0:54
But, uh, yeah, I thought, I thought that in this game we started to see... W- we're hearing a lot about the brand of cricket that a team wants to play, and I feel like we're starting to see the brand of T20 cricket that the big boppers have been building for- Yeah ... several years. One of them was home, uh, two or three weeks ago.
Ian Higgins· Host1:12
Yeah.
Sam Perry· Host1:12
But we're seeing, like, flatter decks, teams that can lose a wicket and just keep bombing.
Ian Higgins· Host1:17
Right.
Sam Perry· Host1:17
And I thought that that's what India showed overnight. They, they put a performance together that was a little bit more, um, commensurate with the skill and quality that they have. They redressed the run rate issues or net run rate issues that they've got. We