Zimbabwe Women – 179 in 48.4 overs (Modester Mupachikwa 34, Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano 28, Audrey Mazvishaya 26*; Geetika Kodali 5/43, Saanvi Immadi 3/28, Isani Vaghela 1/16)
USA Women – 182-6 in 37.2 overs (Anika Kolan 43, Disha Dhingra 41, Gargi Bhogle 36; Josephine Nkomo 2/32, Olinder Chare 2/41, Audrey Mazvishaya 1/33)
USA Women won by four wickets
The United States of America Women defeated Zimbabwe Women by four wickets in the third one-day international at Harare Sports Club on Wednesday to keep their five-match series alive.
Put in to bat first, unlike in the first two fixtures which they comfortably won, the hosts were dismissed for 179 runs in 48.4 overs.
They had enjoyed a decent start though.
After Sharne Mayers was caught at the wicket for 14 in the seventh over, with 23 runs on the board, Modester Mupachikwa and Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano stabilised the innings with a second-wicket partnership worth 57 runs in 13.4 overs.
The stand was only broken when Mupachikwa holed out to midwicket to depart for 34, including five fours, off 59 balls.
Mugeri-Tiripano soon followed, bowled for 28, with five fours, off 46 deliveries to leave the score at 86 for three in 22.1 overs.
After that, the only other notable contributions with the bat came from Ashley Ndiraya with 20 and Audrey Mazvishaya with 26 not out as the Zimbabwe Women innings folded for 179 with eight balls left unbowled.
Geetika Kodali, with five wickets for 43 runs in 10 overs, was easily the USA Women’s best bowler, while Saanvi Immadi claimed three for 28 in nine overs.
In reply, Disha Dhingra and Gargi Bhogle put on an 87-run opening partnership in 15.5 overs, before Mazvishaya bowled Dhingra for 41, with eight fours, which she scored off 46 balls.
Exactly three overs later, at 101, Bhogle followed her to the pavilion after she was caught by Mazvishaya off the bowling of Nomvelo Sibanda having hit five boundaries on her way to 36 off 57 deliveries.
In the next over, with only four more runs added to the board, debutante Olinder Chare grabbed her first ODI wicket when she caught Ella Claridge, who failed to get off the mark, off her own bowling.
Anika Kolan and Sindhu Sriharsha then shared a 59-run stand for the fourth wicket in 13.1 overs, only broken when Kolan was given out lbw to Josephine Nkomo after scoring 43, with five fours, off 59 balls.
Next ball, Nkomo struck again as Aditiba Chudasama, out lbw, departed for a golden duck to leave the Americans at 164 for five, needing 16 runs off 17 overs to win.
They lost Isani Vaghela for one, caught at the wicket off the bowling of Chare, but Sriharsha, with 30 not out, eased them over the line, hitting two consecutive fours off the debutant bowler to take the USA Women to 182 for six in 37.2 overs.
Zimbabwe Women lead the series by two victories to one, with the next match scheduled for this Saturday at the same venue.
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