Vanuatu stun Zimbabwe to kick off T20 World Cup Qualifier

Vanuatu, ranked 30th, stunned Zimbabwe (12th) on the opening day of the Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier by beating them by six wickets after bowling them out for their lowest T20I score of 61. The result will rank among the biggest sporting success stories of Vanuatu, a small island nation with a population of little more than 300,000, who are appearing at a World Cup - men's or women's - Qualifier for the first time. This was likewise whenever Vanuatu first had played a match against a group beyond the East-Asia Pacific (EAP) district and they checked out completely at home in Abu Dhabi. Their spinners, Vanessa Vira and Nasimana Navaika, divided seven wickets among them against a Zimbabwean line-up that naturally gave off an impression of being deer in the headlights. With floodlights just introduced at Harare Sports Club last July, they have meager experience of playing day-night cricket, and attempted to arrange Vanuatu's more slow bowlers. Offspinner Vira made the main entry point when she had Modester Mupachikwa gotten behind in the second finished yet Zimbabwe's concerns truly started three overs later. Medium-pacer Rachel Andrew bowled Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano and skipper Mary-Anne Musonda with progressive conveyances. Sharne Mayers looked great for her 12-ball 16 however fell in the last over of the powerplay, which Zimbabwe completed on 38 for 4. Legspinner Navaika then took four wickets in 10 balls to enlist vocation best figures of 4 for 13 and leave Zimbabwe shredded at 55 for 8 after 11 overs. They hauled themselves north of 60 however just barely and were astonished out in the fourteenth. Accordingly, Vanuatu lost their initial hitters, Andrew and Valenta Langiatu, who was dropped at slip the ball prior to being gotten, in the powerplay, which finished on a careful 25 for 3. They nearly lost their skipper Selina Solman to what appeared to be a hamstring niggle in the 10th over however she batted on and partook in a 19-run stand with Navaika before top-edging Audrey Mazvishaya, who didn't yield a run for her initial 12 balls. Her third over cost seven runs and left Vanuatu near the precarious edge of triumph. In any case, they didn't arrive without Mazvishaya having another say on the game. She bowled Navaika toward the beginning of the sixteenth over with Vanuatu four takes off. They arrived in the seventeenth over with 21 balls in excess and procured a notable triumph that blows open Gathering B of the qualifier and proceeds the endlessly ascent of Vanuatu. Over the most recent seven months, Vanuatu have acquired spirit helping triumphs over groups a lot more grounded than them on paper. In September, they beat local opponents Papua New Guinea, who are positioned eleventh, interestingly en route to winning the EAP Qualifier to procure their place in Abu Dhabi. They were because of movement with acquired or gave gear yet an effective group financing effort sent off by their tasks director Jamal Vira and promoting chief Hermione Vira raised what could be compared to USD 6,317 to guarantee every crew part had their own, new unit for the competition. Different outcomes: Sri Lanka, Ireland, Scotland start with wins Prior in the day, top choices Sri Lanka effectively guarded 122 against Thailand, who they bowled out for their third least T20I complete - 55. Sri Lanka were hamstrung by two run-outs in an innings where nobody scored more than 29. In any case, left-arm seamer Udeshika Prabodhani and offspinner Inoshi Priyadharshani divided five wickets among them to procure Sri Lanka an agreeable success. In Gathering B, Ireland opened their mission with a six-wicket prevail upon UAE, who they kept to 105 for 9. Commitments from Ireland top three implied that in any event, when they lost three wickets for seven runs, they were dependably accountable for the pursuit. Orla Prendergast, in her 49th T20I, saw them home in the seventeenth over. The night's other match saw Scotland overwhelm Uganda after half-hundreds of years from Saskia Horley and Ailsa Lister took them to a monumental complete of 161 for 3. Uganda had no responses against the left-arm crease of Rachel Slater (5 for 17) and went from 10 for 3 to 35 for 7 and 52 all on a mission to experience a 109-run misfortune.