Hobart , dt . 19
The two-time T - 20 world champions, West Indies, fought back after the first defeat and won the first round group match against Zimbabwe by 31 runs . With this, West Indies kept the hope of entering the Super-12 alive . West Indies scored 153 runs for seven wickets with the help of Johnson Charles' 45 runs in 36 balls . In reply, Zimbabwe was bowled out for only 122 .
Player of the match Alzari Joseph took four wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs . While Holder dismissed three batsmen in 12 runs . Jongwe scored 29 runs and Madhewere scored 27 runs from Zimbabwe .
Windies won the toss and chose to bat first . The pair of Charles and Lewis registered a partnership of 49 runs in 38 balls for the second wicket . In the middle order, Powell scored 28 runs off 21 balls and Hossain scored 23 runs off 18 balls in the lower order . Sikandar Raza took 3 wickets for 19 runs and Muzrabani took two wickets for 38 runs .
In reply, the Zimbabwean batsmen could not play a big innings and kept losing wickets at regular intervals against the effective bowling of Windies .
In Group - B, all four teams won 1-1 matches
The race to enter the Super-12 from Group B of the first round of the T - 20 World Cup has become very exciting . All the four teams of the group have already won 1-1 matches . Now the advancing team will be decided based on the results of the last two matches . In the beginning, Scotland defeated Windies and Zimbabwe defeated Ireland . After that Windies beat Zimbabwe and Ireland beat Scotland . Now Windies and Ireland and Zimbabwe and Scotland will meet in the final league match . Along with the result of this match, the run rate will also play an important role .
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