In the first innings of the third ODI Australia vs Zimbabwe, Australia was bundled out for 141 in just 31 overs, with Ryan Burl taking an astonishing career-best 5 for 10.
In the third and final ODI, Zimbabwe stunned Australia on Saturday with some outstanding bowling from Ryan Burl, winning by three wickets.
Zimbabwe used Tadiwanashe Marumani’s 35 and captain Regis Chakabva’s unbeaten 37 to win the dead rubber with 11 overs left and prevent Tasmania from winning 3-0. They had bowled Australia out for just 141 in 31 overs and quit after the hosts put their hands up.
Only David Warner, who scored 94 runs off 96 balls, led the Australian team; all the other hitters appeared numb in front of Zimbabwe’s seamers. Burl demolished the bottom order in three overs, and they had no defense against his bowls.
After Warner and Glenn Maxwell put up a sixth-wicket stand of 57 runs in nine overs to help Australia recover, Burl was introduced. On his fourth ball, he did send back Maxwell, and he went on to take the lower-order wickets.
Warner was caught out six runs short of his first international hundred in two years, and the last five wickets fell for only 12 runs.
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Zimbabwe chose to bowl after winning the toss. Australia was unable to even settle on the field for a time due to their front-row seamers, who were terrific. However, the Australians chose some subpar shots, much as Steve Smith did, and did not choose.
Warner and Maxwell were the only other batters to reach double digits. The troubles of Aaron Finch are a recurring theme in this series. It was the third time in the series that he lost a solid cover drive to left arm Richard Ngarava. Burl had an opportunity to slip a second time.
An LBW catch dismissed Smith on a Victor Nyauchi ball in the following over. He utilized the DRS, but it was ineffective because it appeared to accept stumps.
Afterwards, wickets fell in short succession. First, Brad Evans was the target of a powerful drive by Alex Carey. Evans then claimed Marcus Stoinis’ wicket.
Warner wanted someone to stay on the field and contribute to forming a solid partnership as Australia was 72 for 5 in the 18th over. Maxwell could do that for a while, and Australia made an effort to get back into the game by scoring runs quickly. That, however, was short-lived when Maxwell returned.
The last two Australian wickets, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazelwood went back at just a four-ball interval and followed each other to the pavilion. Zimbabwe had never previously bowled Australia out in an ODI.
Burl made the game particularly memorable when he left the field while holding the ball high and returned to finish with five of 10 in just three overs.