With this win, India has won the three-match T20I series 2-0, with one more game to go. Skipper Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma guided Team India to a nine-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second T20I at Raipur on Sunday.
India chased 103 set by Zimbabwe in 8.5 overs, with Shafali getting a half-century after Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat first. Shafali reached her ninth fifty-plus score of 2026 in 24 balls, with six fours and four sixes. Beloved Biza ended the 96-run stand, removing her for 25-ball 55. Mandhana (47* in 25 balls, with six fours and two sixes) closed the match with a six in 8.5 overs, with Anushka Sharma (1*) unbeaten.
Shafali, holding the record for most runs in a calendar year in women’s T20Is, with 922 runs in 26 innings at an average of 38.41 and a strike rate of over 165, including a century and eight fifties, surpassed her partner Mandhana for most fifty-plus scores by a batter in women’s T20Is during a calendar year, with nine such scores as compared to her skipper’s eight (eight fifties) in 2024.
