{"id":11078,"date":"2025-02-24T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zimbabwe-v-ireland-hosts-overhaul-irish-to-take-t20-series-lead\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:38:13","slug":"zimbabwe-v-ireland-hosts-overhaul-irish-to-take-t20-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zimbabwe-v-ireland-hosts-overhaul-irish-to-take-t20-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe v Ireland: Hosts overhaul Irish to take T20 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Second Twenty20 international, Harare<\/b><\/p>\n

Zimbabwe 141-7 (19.2 overs): <\/b>Munyonga 43; Young 4-24, Tector 1-5<\/p>\n

Ireland 137-8 (20 overs):<\/b> Tucker 46; Gwandu 3-24, Sikandar Raza 2-22<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe win by three wickets<\/i><\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Tony Munyonga guided Zimbabwe to a three-wicket victory over Ireland in the second Twenty20 international in Harare.<\/b><\/p>\n

After the opening T20 was abandoned because of rain, Ireland batted first and set a chase of 137.<\/p>\n

Craig Young claimed four wickets are Ireland piled pressure on Zimbabwe, but the hosts rallied through Munyonga’s unbeaten 43 and claimed the match with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe can win the three-match series in the final T20 between the sides on Tuesday, while Ireland require victory to draw the contest.<\/p>\n

The hosts won the toss and elected to field as light rain briefly interrupted play, and Ireland lost captain Paul Stirling in the final ball of the first over.<\/p>\n

Harry Tector, who was dismissed in the seventh over on 28, and Lorcan Tucker combined to put Ireland just shy of a ton before the Irish wicketkeeper was caught by Brian Bennett while on 46 in the 13th over.<\/p>\n

Ireland looked poised for a strong score but Zimbabwe took a flurry of late wickets as George Dockrell, Neil Rock, Gareth Delany and Graham Hume all fell inside the final three overs as Ireland ended their innings on 137-8. <\/p>\n

Young, only drafted into the T20 squad after an injury to Mark Adair, helped Ireland to a blistering start as he took out Tadiwanashe Marumani, Wesley Madhevere and Bennett to leave Zimbabwe at 14-3.<\/p>\n

However, the hosts rallied and strong scoring from Sikandar Raza (22), Ryan Burl (27) and Munyonga (43) fired Zimbabwe to a series lead before Tuesday’s final match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Second Twenty20 international, Harare Zimbabwe 141-7 (19.2 overs): Munyonga 43; Young 4-24, Tector 1-5 Ireland 137-8 (20 overs): Tucker 46; Gwandu 3-24, Sikandar Raza 2-22 Zimbabwe win by three wickets Scorecard Tony Munyonga guided Zimbabwe to a three-wicket victory over Ireland in the second Twenty20 international in Harare. After the opening T20 was abandoned because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11080,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions\/11080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}