Zimbabwe vs India, 3rd T20I
IND 138/6 (20.0 Ovs)
ZIM 135/6 (20.0 Ovs)
India won by 3 runs
"We are all broken - that's how the light gets in," Ernest Hemingway once said. Zimbabwe are broken too, with their fielding in shambles at times, struggling on slowest of pitches, with the bat and the ball, only to fail in usurping, and pardon me, at best a second string Indian side. Dav Whatmore was sacked weeks before India arrived, ODI series could fairly be nomenclatured as a phobia - so poorly contested it was - but then came the T20s, cricket's little child that ATMs out joy.
Dhoni: "What happens in this format is the games get close. Zimbabwe batted, bowled and fielded well in this series, which is why it was a close series. As the format gets longer, it will be difficult for them to compete. They need more games to get better and better. I didn't get a chance to bat but I felt it was the right way to play cricket - having opted to bat. Fast bowling is something you need a good pool for.