{"id":4240,"date":"2022-08-28T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=241358"},"modified":"2022-08-28T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:51:41","slug":"aus-vs-zim-1st-odi-zimbabwe-starts-with-a-defeat-as-australia-dominate-the-series-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-zim-1st-odi-zimbabwe-starts-with-a-defeat-as-australia-dominate-the-series-start\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs ZIM 1st ODI: Zimbabwe starts with a defeat as Australia dominate the series start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u00a0were put in to bat in windy, cloudy conditions, and were dismissed for 200 runs in 47.3 overs. For Australia\u2019s seasoned batting squad, that total never appeared to be a problem as they quickly reached 201-5 with 99 balls remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Kaia was caught and bowled by Mitchell Marsh for 17 after sloppy fielding allowed Zimbabwe\u2019s frail top-order to get off to a promising start, easing to 61-1 by the first drinks break.<\/p>\n<p>After taking two quick wickets for Adam Zampa (3-57), Wesley Madhevere, 21, and captain Regis Chakabva (31), both batted conservatively and had a 63-run stand.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lower order utterly crumbled, swinging wildly against Green (5-33), whose entire haul consisted of catches in the deep as the final four wickets were taken for a total of 12 runs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a way to win it! <\/p>\n<p>Glenn Maxwell was wasting no time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvZIM?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvZIM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v2BoaKgTqc\">pic.twitter.com\/v2BoaKgTqc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1563775462039441409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After Aaron Finch left for\u00a015 runs, David Warner and Steve Smith (48 not out) batted freely in search of a modest aim.<\/p>\n<p>Warner avoided being run out by Sikandar Raza\u2019s lost catch at 36, and two balls later he walked when wicketkeeper Chakabva quickly reviewed the play for caught-behind.<\/p>\n<p>The opener was forced to shuffle back out to the middle after the review was considered to provide insufficient evidence to overturn the not-out ruling.<\/p>\n<p>However, the off-spinner quickly caught Warner, cleanly bowling him for 57.<\/p>\n<p>The middle order of Australia faltered, losing three wickets to leg-breaks from Ryan Burl, but Glenn Maxwell crushed 32 off nine deliveries to win the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u00a0were put in to bat in windy, cloudy conditions, and were dismissed for 200 runs in 47.3 overs. For Australia\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[338,946],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-odi","tag-zimbabwe"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}