Duo gives Zimbabwe A great start before innings falls apart

Zimbabwe A – 163 all out in 56.4 overs (Tadiwanashe Marumani 66, Dion Myers 50, Nyasha Mayavo 17; Mohammad Ali 4/36, Mehran Mumtaz 3/36, Aamer Jamal 3/51)

Pakistan Shaheens – 115-1 in 24 overs (Muhammad Hurraira 60*, Imran Butt 27, Omair Yousuf 19*; Dion Myers 1/17)

Day 1 – Stumps: Pakistan Shaheens path by 48 runs

Two wonderful fifties from Tadiwanashe Marumani and Dion Myers gave Zimbabwe A a high-quality begin earlier than they suffered a batting collapse of their second four-day match in opposition to Pakistan Shaheens at Mutare Sports activities Membership on Wednesday.

They have been dismissed for 163 and by the shut the vacationers had put themselves in a powerful place by scoring 115 for one wicket.

Pakistan Shaheens received the toss and put Zimbabwe A in to bat.

The house staff suffered an early blow when their most important batting hero of the primary match, Joylord Gumbie, was caught off the bowling of paceman Mohammad Ali for seven, with the rating at 12.

There adopted a high-quality partnership of 110 for the second wicket as Myers joined Marumani on the crease, and the pair batted fantastically in opposition to a combined bowling assault, scoring at a superb tempo and placing their aspect in a really promising place.

Sadly, such a superb begin was wasted as as soon as the partnership was damaged the center order fell aside.

The dismissal that began the collapse was that of Myers, who reached his 50 and was then bowled out at that mark by the left-arm spinner Mehran Mumtaz with the rating now studying 122 for 2 wickets.

Myers confronted 108 deliveries and hit a six and 9 fours.

At 130 Marumani adopted him again to the pavilion after scoring an aggressive 66 off 100 balls – he was caught on the wicket off the tempo bowler Aamer Jamil.

Marumani hit a six and eight fours in his dominating innings.

With out addition Tony Munyonga was out with out scoring, after which Johnathan Campbell went for 4 – all three wickets fell in 9 balls bowled by Jamil, and all have been caught behind the wicket.

When Roy Kaia was caught off Mumtaz for 12, the rating had gone to 140 for six wickets, 5 wickets having gone down in six overs.

Nyasha Mayavo did his greatest to enhance the state of affairs by scoring 17, however then he was bowled by Ali and the later batters all failed.

The final 4 wickets fell for the addition of solely two runs, and Zimbabwe A have been all out for 163, a poor whole after such a superb second-wicket partnership.

Ali, who eliminated the final two batters in three balls, completed with 4 wickets for 36 runs, whereas there have been three scalps every for Jamal and Mumtaz.

Pakistan Shaheens started their innings briskly, the openers Muhammad Hurraira and Imran Butt making mild of the Zimbabwe A bowling.

The house aspect weren’t helped by Tanaka Chivanga breaking down in his fourth over and being unable to bowl once more.

Butt fancied the bowling of Myers and hit him for 3 successive fours, however the subsequent supply discovered him out lbw for 27, the rating then being 63 for one within the eleventh over.

Omair Yousuf rapidly discovered his contact, and with Hurraira took the rating to 115 for one wicket in 24 overs by the shut.

Hurraira was trying ominously good with 60, whereas Yousuf had 19.