{"id":658,"date":"2022-06-17T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=658"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:15:10","slug":"chevrons-win-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Chevrons Win in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremiah Harrison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe Senior men&#8217;s cricket team levelled up in the on going One-Day International series after beating Sri Lanka by 22 runs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visitors won the toss and elected to bat first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chevrons skipper Craig Ervine put on a brilliant performance with 90 runs on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Ervine was voted player of the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His partnership with Sean Williams reached 50 runs, before Williams was dismissed by Chamike Karunaratne in the 48th Over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe batted with precision setting 302 on the scoreboard losing 8 wickets from 50 Overs and 303 became the target for the hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka batted but after 24 Overs they had already lost 4 wickets with only 122 runs, they needed 181 runs to win from 26 Overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They could not handle the pressure exerted by Zimbabwe bowlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brilliant performance it was from the Chevrons with Blessing Muzarabani and Tendai Chatara adding 3 wickets on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe levelled up the ODI series to 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe will face Sri Lanka on Friday for the final match of the ODI series the decider of the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Harrison Zimbabwe Senior men&#8217;s cricket team levelled up in the on going One-Day International series after beating Sri Lanka by 22 runs on Tuesday. The visitors won the toss&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}