India vs Zimbabwe Match Prediction: Who Will Win The Match Between India And Zimbabwe? 1st ODI, India Tour Of Zimbabwe 2022

India vs Zimbabwe Match Prediction: Who Will Win The Match Between India And Zimbabwe? 1st ODI, India Tour Of Zimbabwe 2022. India is set to take on hosts Zimbabwe in the first ODI of the series, on August 18, Thursday. The match is set to take place at the Harare Sports Club and is scheduled to begin at 12:45 pm IST (Indian Standard Time). The 2nd and 3rd ODI will take place on August 20 and 22 respectively. All the matches will take place at Harare Sports Club in  Harare.

India is on a 12-match winning streak against Zimbabwe in ODIs with 11 of them on Zimbabwe soil. India beat England (2-1) and West Indies (3-0) in their most recent ODI series on away soil. Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh in the ODIs (2-1) and T20Is (2-1) at home recently.

Zimbabwe Cricket has been on the back foot during the recent few years, and they are having a good time on the field recently. They won the regional T20 Qualifiers to qualify for the 2022 T20I World Cup and then beat Bangladesh in both the ODI & T20I series recently.

Now, they have a chance to showcase their talent to the wider audiences against cricketing giants India in this series. Indian team has rested most of their senior players owing to workload management and will be eager to test the young players on the bench in this series.

Zimbabwe will be led by Regis Chakabva in the absence of Craig Ervine in this series too. Takudzwanashe Kaitano and Tadiwanashe Marumani are expected to open the batting line-up.

Sikandar Raza, Innocent Kaia, Regis Chakabva, Ryan Burl, and Wesley Madhevere will form their strong middle order combination with all players except Wesley Madhevere and Ryan Burl making big scores recently.

Luke Jongwe, Donald Tiripano, and Richard Ngarva will form their pace bowling trio in the starting XI this match with the likes of Victor Nyachi and Brad Evans available for selection in the squad. Sikandar Raza will lead the spin attack with Wesley Madhevere and Ryan Burl for the company in the spin attack.

India will be led by returning KL Rahul after a long injury-ridden gap. Experienced campaigner Shikhar Dhawan will serve as his deputy and partner him at the top of the order. Deepak Hooda, Shubman Gill, and Sanju Samson showcased their skills and are expected to slot in the middle order for the team with Axar Patel expected to be the all-rounder lower down the order.

Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, and Deepak Chahar are expected to slot in as the first-choice pacers in this match with Shardul Thakur and Avesh Khan available as backup options for the team. Axar Patel will partner with Kuldeep Yadav to take care of the spin department. Spin all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed received his maiden India call-up as he replaced an injured Washington Sundar for the three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe.

Along with KL Rahul, a lot of focus would also be on Deepak Chahar, who too is returning from an injury. Shubman Gill might just have to drop down the order to make room for skipper KL Rahul at the top, but he will aim to continue the rich form that earned him a Man of the Series award against West Indies. India has a massively dominant record against Zimbabwe in ODIs. Out of 63 ODIs, the visitors have won 51, and Zimbabwe has only 10 victories. Two games have ended in ties.

India vs Zimbabwe Match Prediction: Who Will Win The Match Between India And Zimbabwe? 1st ODI, India Tour Of Zimbabwe 2022

The two teams have a huge gap across their teams in terms of performances, player quality, and rankings. Despite the fact that the visitors have sent out their next generation of players to test them out in the international stages, they too have vast experience playing against bigger teams in the IPL and international circuit.

Zimbabwe has been coming up with spirited performances off late and it is showing up in their results with series wins and qualification to the 2022 T20I World Cup. Zimbabwe is expected to come up with spirited performances in this series and they have a good team combination and depth but the visitors are expected to win this match owing to their firepower and player quality at disposal.

India is on a winning spree and it won’t be a tough task for the KL Rahul-led team to take down Zimbabwe with plenty of good resources available in the visitors’ camp.

Betway has India as the unsurprising heavy favourites against Zimbabwe. The visitors are priced at 1.05 to beat the home side in the first ODI. Betway also has India as the joint favourites in the T20 world cup later this year!”