{"id":18555,"date":"2025-09-08T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18555"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:04:05","slug":"mishara-stars-as-sri-lanka-win-zimbabwe-t20is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18555","title":{"rendered":"Mishara stars as Sri Lanka win Zimbabwe T20Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An unbeaten 73 from Kamil Mishara led Sri Lanka to an eight-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday to win their Twenty20 series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Put in to bat after losing the toss, Zimbabwe made 191-8 but Sri Lanka cruised to the target with 14 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Mishara and Kusal Perera put on 117 runs in an unbeaten third-wicket stand as Sri Lanka completed a white-ball double, having won the preceding one-day international series against Zimbabwe 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Having scored just 35 runs in four previous T20I innings, 24-year-old Mishara made his mark with a match-winning knock, hitting three sixes and six fours from the 43 balls he faced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a privilege to win a game for my country, I just feel very good,&#8221; said Mishara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was pressure, of course, but the coaching staff just told me to play my normal game. I just wanted to get into my rhythm and then played my normal game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mishara and veteran Perera came together with Sri Lanka 76-2 after 7.1 overs and took control as Sri Lanka put a nightmare 80 all out in the second match on Saturday behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Perera scored as briskly as Mishara, with his unbeaten 46 coming off 26 deliveries. His innings included two sixes and four fours.<\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper Tadiwanashe Marumani top scored for Zimbabwe with 51 off 44 balls before being stumped by Mendis off a googly from leg-spinner Dushan Hemantha.<\/p>\n<p>Hemantha (3-38) also took the wickets of Sean Williams (23) and home captain Sikandar Raza (28).<\/p>\n<p>Brief scores<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe 191-8 in 20 overs (T. Marumani 51; D. Hemantha 3-38) v Sri Lanka 193-2 in 17.4 overs (K. Mishara 73 not out, K. Perera 46 not out)<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka won by eight wickets.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unbeaten 73 from Kamil Mishara led Sri Lanka to an eight-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday to win their Twenty20 series 2-1. Put in to bat after losing the toss, Zimbabwe made 191-8 but Sri Lanka cruised to the target with 14 balls to spare. Mishara and Kusal Perera put on 117 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}