Zimbabwean cricket team in India in 2000–01
# Zimbabwean cricket team in India in 2000–01

Zimbabwean national cricket team toured India in 2000-01 season. The tour lasted from 8 November to 14 December and included series of 2 Tests and 5 One Day Internationals. India won the Test series by 1-0 and ODIs series by 4-1.

## Tour matches

### Three-day: National Cricket Academy XI v Zimbabwe XI

* 8–10 Nov 2000 Scorecard
* Match drawn Nehru Stadium, Indore Umpires: A. Y. Gokhale (Ind) and R. Radhakrishnan (Ind)
* Zimbabwe XI won the toss and elected to field.

### Three-day: Indian Board President's XI v Zimbabwe XI

* 13–15 Nov 2000 Scorecard
* Zimbabwe XI won by 4 wickets Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad Umpires: Sanjeeva Rao (Ind) and M. S. Mahal (Ind)
* Indian Board President's XI won the toss and elected to bat.

## Test series

### 1st Test

* 18 November 2000 (2000-11-18) Scorecard
* India won by 7 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: JH Hampshire and S Venkataraghavan Player of the match: Javagal Srinath
* Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat
* Vijay Dahiya made his debut in Test matches

### 2nd Test

* 25 November 2000 (2000 -11-25) Scorecard
* Match drawn Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and RS Dunne Player of the match: Andy Flower
* India won the toss and decided to bat
* Sarandeep Singh made his debut in Test matches

## ODI series

### 1st ODI

* 2 December 2000 Scorecard

| Zimbabwe 253/6 (50 overs) | v | India 255/7 (47.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Stuart Carlisle 91* (125) Ajit Agarkar 2/74 (10 overs) | | Hemang Badani 58*(69) Brian Murphy 2/45 (6 overs) |

* India won by 3 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Jasbir Singh (Ind) and Arani Jayaprakash (Ind) Player of the match: Hemang Badani (Ind)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
* Reetinder Sodhi (Ind) made his ODI debut.

### 2nd ODI

* 6 December 2000 Scorecard

| India 306/5 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 245/8 (50 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Sourav Ganguly 144 (152) Travis Friend 1/37 (10 overs) | | Heath Streak 51 (57) Sridharan Sriram 3/47 (8 overs) |

* India won by 61 runs Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (Ind) and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 8 December 2000 Scorecard

| India 283/8 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 284/9 (49.5 Overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Sachin Tendulkar 146 (153) Grant Flower 3/43 (10 overs) | | Andy Flower 70 (94) Venkatesh Prasad 3/61 (10 overs) |

* Zimbabwe won by 1 wicket Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Player of the match: Grant Flower (Zim)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* It was the first ODI played at this venue.
* Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) broke Desmond Haynes' (Win) record for most centuries scored on home soil. He also became the first to score 1,000 runs against Zimbabwe in ODIs.
* Zaheer Khan scored 25 runs in the 50th over of India's innings, the most by an India player in an over of an ODI.
* Andy Flower and Grant Flower's partnership of 158 runs was Zimbabwe's highest for the fourth wicket in an ODI.
* Ajit Agarkar (Ind) picked his 100th wicket in ODIs.
* Zimbabwe's total of 284 was their highest against India in ODIs.
* Zimbabwe's win margin of one wicket was their narrowest in ODIs.

### 4th ODI

* 11 December 2000 Scorecard

| Zimbabwe 165 (45.4 overs) | v | India 166/1 (25 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Alistair Campbell 32 (44) Sourav Ganguly 5/34 (10 overs) | | Sourav Ganguly 71* (68) Travis Friend 1/40 (5 overs) |

* India won by 9 wickets Green Park, Kanpur Umpires: Chandra Sathe (Ind) and Devendra Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

### 5th ODI

* 14 December 2000 Scorecard

| India 301/6 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 262 (47.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Hemang Badani 77 (99) Brian Murphy 3/63 (10 overs) | | Trevor Madondo 71 (70) Ajit Agarkar 3/26 (8.4 overs) |

* India won by 39 runs Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Umpires: Vinayak Kulkarni (Ind) and Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Player of the match: Ajit Agarkar (Ind)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
* Amiesh Saheba (Ind) officiated for the first time in ODIs as an umpire.
* This was Rahul Dravid's first match as India captain.
* Ajit Agarkar beat the record held by Kapil Dev for the fastest fifty by an India player in ODIs (21 balls).
