The 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series was a

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tournament held from 1 to 8 July 2018 in Zimbabwe. It was a tri-nation series between Australia,

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and

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, with all the matches played as

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s (T20Is) at the

Harare Sports Club Harare Sports Club is a sports club and the Harare Sports Club Ground is a cricket stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe. Founded in 1900 and known as Salisbury Sports Club until 1982, it is mostly used for cricket matches, and has served as the primary c ...

. In the fourth T20I, Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets, therefore Australia and Pakistan qualified for the final. Pakistan defeated Australia in the final by six wickets to win the series. Originally, the tour was just going to feature Australia and Zimbabwe, with the two teams playing two Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs). In June 2018, the Zimbabwe team threatened to boycott the tour in a dispute over outstanding money that has not been paid to players.

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(ZC) paid one of the three months' worth of outstanding salaries, with the players giving ZC the deadline of 25 June 2018 to pay the rest, or face a boycott. However, despite not being paid, the players are likely to call off the protest and play in the series, but the demand for the outstanding salaries payment deadline remains in place. Zimbabwe Cricket assured players that all the outstanding salaries would be paid by 25 July 2018, one month after the players' deadline. A few days later, Zimbabwe Cricket named a 22-man preliminary squad for the series, which was trimmed down to a final seventeen players. Zimbabwe did not initially name a captain, after

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was sacked following the

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tournament. A day before the first match,

Hamilton Masakadza Hamilton Masakadza (born 9 August 1983) is a Zimbabwean former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for Zimbabwe. He captained the national team during 2016 ICC World T20, but was relieved of his duties due to an indifferent performanc ...

was named as Zimbabwe's captain.

Squads

After the first T20I, Kyle Jarvis was ruled out for the series due to injury and was replaced by

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in Zimbabwe's squad.

Points table

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

4th T20I

5th T20I

6th T20I

Final

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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