Zimbabwe 291 for two (Ervine 121*, Williams 102*, Kami 1-30) beat Nepal 290 for 8 (Bhurtel 99, Sheikh 66, Ngarava 4-43) by eight wickets

In the tip, the one individual discombobulated by Lamichhane's selection was the bowler himself as he struggled for rhythm. Zimbabwe ensured he registered his second-most costly figures in ODI cricket, 10-0-77-0, and was wicketless simply the third in his profession.

Williams was instrumental in taking stress off his captain, glad to tackle the function of the aggressor. This mirrored within the velocity with which he introduced up his thirty fourth half-century, taking simply 41 balls. By then, the asking charge had been tamed, introduced down properly beneath six. Soon after a caress by way of the covers introduced up Ervine's hundred, and as cries of "captain" broke out from the Harare crowd, their chief saluted them again.

Ervine took 111 balls for his hundred, and Williams would not be content material with only a half-century both. He continued accelerating as Zimbabwe turned the chase right into a formality, and the one impediment to his century was that Zimbabwe had been operating out of runs to chase. But with 5 runs required, he slashed Gulshan Jha to the large long-off boundary to degree the scores. His hundred got here in simply 70 balls, and the Castle Corner was solely too glad to get on its ft once more.

In the tip, with Williams and Ervine in that sort of kind, none of it may need mattered in any case. As the gamers indulged in a lap of honour to thank a crowd that had stayed again to have fun, this present day in Harare really belonged to Zimbabwe.