Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, 2nd ODI at Bulawayo, Oct 18 2015 - Ball by Ball Commentary

all done! Nyumbu slaps to point, but he doesn't want to run. Panyangara, however, does and keeps going even as his partner tries to send him back. Eventually Nyumbu decides he must go, but by then Aftab has the ball in his hands and he makes a mess of the stumps at the non-striker's end, rocketing a full strength throw at them from about half a foot away. An emphatic way to level the series!

Panyangara backs away and hacks a length delivery through the covers without much timing.

tip-and-run single for Nyumbu, just behind point to get off the mark. Ironic cheers from the crowd.

and another! Zimbabwe are crumbling away. Aftab followed Dawlat's cue and fired down a fast yorker right at the batsman's toes. Masakadza swung right over the top of it, and his middle stump was knocked clear out of the ground.

fierce yorker! Jongwe wanted to drive through extra cover, but this fast, reverse swinging yorker zipped under his bat in a flash. Dawlat Zadran celebrates, and Afghanistan close in on a series-leveling win.

a full toss on middle is punted down the ground, but just the one run. Afghanistan won't mind that, as it means Masakadza may well be on strike again in the next over.

squeezed out to point, right off the toe end as it left him late through the air

definite, late reverse swing for Dawlat, away from the left-hander. Again it's full and wide outside off, and again he can't lay bat to ball.

full and wide outside off, and Masakadza can't get close with a booming drive.

a low full toss, on off stump, is slapped to mid-off.

Aftab fires down a bouncer, and Jongwe hooks it down to fine leg to keep the strike.

Jongwe, meanwhile, is unfazed! Another length delivery is flapped up and over square leg, right into the gap, and away for four.

Chigumbura departs! He'd not been able to find the boundary even once in this innings, and needed to hit out at every ball. This was the ball to hit - a length delivery on middle and leg - but he picked out the fielder at deep midwicket. An off, off-colour innings. Though Jongwe remains, this should be the game in the bag for Afghanistan.

a yorker bounces off Jongwe's left foot and rolls to leg, and they charge through for a leg bye.

Jongwe finds the vital boundary! He was aiming for wide long on, but the ball curved in to him and flew off the inside half of the bat and down to long leg. They all count!

crunched out of the middle of the bat, but straight down to the long on fielder. In case you hadn't noticed, this is already Jongwe's highest score in internationals.

another slower ball. Chigumbura was winding up to have a full go, but checked his shot and slotted the ball into the covers instead.

clubbed away to wide long on, but not out of the middle of the bat. The placement is such that they hurry back for the second.

full toss once again, and Jongwe still can't get it past the man at cover. Just another single

with fine leg up, Chigumbura aims for a paddle sweep. But Dawlat sent down a slower ball that he didn't quite read, and he's struck on the pad. Outside off, by the looks of things, and they steal a single.