Zimbabwe v India, 2016

First Twenty20 international At Harare, June 18, 2016. Zimbabwe won by two runs. Zimbabwe 170-6 (20 overs) (M. N. Waller 30, E. Chigumbura 54*); ‡India 168-6 (20 overs) (Mandeep Singh 31, M. K. Pandey 48). MoM: E. Chigumbura. T20I debuts: Y. S. Chahal, R. Dhawan, Mandeep Singh, K. L. Rahul, J. D. Unadkat (India). Twenty20 may be unpredictable, but nobody gave Zimbabwe a chance after the one-day thrashings - still less when India wanted eight off the last over, with M. S. Dhoni at the crease. But he made a mess of it. Zimbabwe's 170 owed everything to Chigumbura, whose 26-ball 54* included seven sixes and a solitary four (the boundaries had been considerably shortened). Opening bowlers Jaydev Unadkat and Rishi Dhawan bowled poor lengths, conceding 85 in their eight overs - twice as many as Bumrah and Patel. Though Rahul was bowled first ball, Pandey seemed in full control until, needing 28 from 17, he drove to deep cover. Patel smashed two sixes and a four off his first eight deliveries, bringing it down to eight off six. But Neville Madziva produced the over of his life. Patel holed out to his second ball and, when Dhoni and Dhawan kept walking way outside off stump attempting to hit through leg, he matched them with wide yorkers, though one prompted an absurd call of wide by umpire Russell Tiffin. Dhoni needed four from the final delivery, but ran just one as his searing slap-drive went straight to deep backward point, triggering Zimbabwean delirium.