Raza, Chisoro lift Zimbabwe to 218

Innings (49 overs) Zimbabwe 218 for 8 (Raza 76*, Chisoro 42*, Nurse 3-27, Bishoo 3-30) v West IndiesLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details

Sikandar Raza struck a fighting half-century and received valuable support from Zimbabwe’s tail, as the home side recovered from 89 for 7 to post a competitive 218 on a slow, sticky surface. Raza brought up his half-century off 85 balls, to warm cheers from an appreciative Bulawayo crowd, and ended up with 76 crucial runs for his team. He put on 38 for the eighth wicket with Donald Tiripano and an unbroken 84 for the ninth wicket with Tendai Chisoro, who finished with a 35-ball 42.

Zimbabwe’s innings had earlier been wrecked by spinners Devendra Bishoo and Ashley Nurse. After a rain break had interrupted the innings at 48 for 1 and reduced the match to 49 overs a side, Bishoo and Nurse ran riot, engineering a collapse of 6 for 41. Between them, they took 6 for 57 in 20 overs, but when they had exhausted their quota of overs, Raza and the tail fought back against the seamers. Batting through a steady, incessant drizzle, they hauled Zimbabwe up to a total that kept them in the contest in the must-win encounter.

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