ZIM vs BAN 3rd T20I: Dream11 Prediction, Pitch Report & C/VC Picks

Zimbabwe have dominated on all fronts during this tour. They won the only Test by an innings and 85 runs, won the ODI series 2-1, and now take a 1-0 lead in the T20I series, beating Bangladesh by 32 runs in Bulawayo on July 15.

Zimbabwe lead the T20I series 1-0 after winning the Test and ODI series earlier. Bangladesh are at a loss for time, series and key players. The third T20I series, to be played at the Queen’s Sports Club in Bulawayo on July 19, is a dead rubber but carries serious pride. The game will start at 12:30 pm local time and 4:00 pm IST.

ZIM vs BAN 3rd T20I: Match Overview

Key Insights

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, led by pacers Richard Ngarawa and Blessing Muzarabani, defended 170 runs in the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh to take a 1-0 lead. Ngarawa and Muzarabani shared eight wickets and bowled 29 dot balls as they targeted the Bangladesh batsmen with bounce and came out on top. Ngarawa finished with 4/26 and Muzarabani took 4/17, their joint career bests.

It has been a great time for Zimbabwe in men’s international cricket. Brian Bennett, who scored 44 runs off 30 balls, improved from where he left off in the T20 World Cup, where he was the sixth-highest run-scorer. Sikandar Raza is set to become the oldest Zimbabwean player to play in T20Is, having already surpassed Brendan Taylor in that series during the first match.

Zimbabwe eye a 3-0 clean sweep as Bangladesh seek consolation, Zimbabwe have not completed a clean sweep of Bangladesh in any format since 2001. That history gives this final match real meaning for the home team beyond just the scoreline.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh are playing without Liton Das, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed and Hasan Mahmud, who were granted NOCs to participate in the Lanka Premier League, and to add to their worries, their fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman has also been ruled out of the tour after suffering a Grade 1 muscle tear in his right hamstring and meniscal degeneration in his right knee during the ODI series.

Bangladesh have called up Taskin Ahmed to the squad due to Mustafizur Rahman’s injury. Taskin’s presence gives Bangladesh at least one senior seam bowler to bolster their bowling attack. Yasir Ali’s 54 was the only individual score above 19 in Bangladesh’s innings in the first T20I, and the complete isolation in the batting lineup tells the full story of how weak this team looks without its first-choice players.

After the first T20I, Towhid Hridayoy said that while chasing 170 to 180 runs, his team needs one or two big partnerships at the top. They have not bowled a single over in this entire tour. Bangladesh had suffered a 3-0 home defeat against Australia before this tour. Form, team depth and confidence – all these have been missing in the last few weeks.

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Pitch Report: Queens Sports Club

The Queen’s Sports Club surface remains low and slow as the match progresses, making strokeplay increasingly difficult in the second innings. On a surface not known to help seam bowlers, Nagarwa and Muzarabani shared eight wickets by targeting the stumps and using the extra bounce they created rather than pulling the ball off the pitch.

As the innings develops and the surface dries up, the spinners get more purchase. Raza says the challenge will be to handle the ball on the stumps and hit it to the ground. Both Ryan Burl’s leg spin and Sikandar Raza’s off spin become increasingly difficult to play on this surface after the halfway mark of any innings.

Toss Prediction

Raza wanted to bat first in the first T20I because he believed the Bulawayo pitch was good for batting early and what he had learnt from the last World Cup was to score big runs while batting first.

The same logic applies to the third T20I as well. On this surface, a score of over 160 really puts pressure on the chasing team as the pitch slows down and the spinners take over in the middle overs. Both captains know this. The team that wins the toss bats first.

Match Prediction

Zimbabwe have been a good team in every format, every match and every department during this tour. Their pace attack has been clinical for months and Bulawayo has done nothing to stop the likes of Virat Kohli and Muzarabani from taking wickets at will.

Bangladesh have given them a slightly better bowling attack with the return of Taskin, but a batting line-up that has failed to put up consistent partnerships throughout the tour will not solve the problem in the final match.

As Zimbabwe’s winning streak continues to grow, Raza says the winning culture after their second win against Bangladesh has changed the team’s mindset, with the 2027 World Cup and WTC ambitions firmly in mind on home soil.

Zimbabwe are strong favourites to complete a series sweep for the first time since 2001 and create history against Bangladesh. Bangladesh need to do something different and the match is winding down to find out.

Cricbites Prediction: Zimbabwe to win this match

ZIM vs BAN 3rd T20I: Predicted Playing XI

Zimbabwe Predicted Playing XI:

Sikandar Raza (c), Brian Bennett, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Ben Curran, Ryan Burl, Clive Madande (wk), Tashinga Musekiwa, Wellington Masakadza, Richard Ngarava, Blessing Muzarabani, Brad Evans

Bangladesh Predicted Playing XI:

Towhid Hridoy (c), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan (wk), Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Saifuddin, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Nahid Rana

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