Zimbabwe Tri-Series 2016/17

The Zimbabwe Tri-Series 2016/17 was a three-nation tournament in ODI - Cricket and took place from November 14th to 27th, 2016 in Zimbabwe . Participants in the tournament, which is part of the international cricket season 2016/17, were the host Zimbabwe and the national teams from Sri Lanka and the West Indies . In the final, Sri Lanka was able to prevail against Zimbabwe with 6 wickets.

prehistory

Previously, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka played a test series and the West Indies played a tour in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan . It was originally planned that Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe would host an ODI series against each other, but this was converted into the Tri-Series for financial reasons.

Stages

Bulawayo Harare

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and were set on September 29, 2016.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Queens Sports Club	Bulawayo	9,000	3rd - 6th ODI; final
Harare Sports Club	Harare	10,000	1st & 2nd ODI

Squad lists

The West Indies named their roster on October 13, 2016. Sri Lanke named its roster on November 5, 2016. Zimbabwe named its roster on November 11, 2016.

ODI
Zimbabwe	Sri Lanka	West Indies
Graeme Cremer ( K ) Brian Chari Elton Chigumbura Chamu Chibhabha Tendai Chisoro Craig Ervine Hamilton Masakadza Peter Moor ( wk ) Christopher Mpofu Carl Mumba Tarisai Musakanda Tinashe Panyangara Sikandar Raza Donald Tiripano Sean Williams	Upul Tharanga ( K ) Kusal Perera ( UK ) Dhananjaya de Silva Niroshan Dickwella ( wk ) Asela Gunaratne Shehan Jayasuriya Nuwan Kulasekara Lahiru Kumara Suranga Lakmal Kusal Mendis Sachith Pathirana Nuwan Pradeep Lakshan Sandakan Dasun Shanaka Jeffrey Vandersay	Jason Holder ( K ) Sulieman Benn ( UK ) Devendra Bishoo Carlos Brathwaite Kraigg Brathwaite Darren Bravo Jonathan Carter Johnson Charles Miguel Cummins Shane Dowrich Shannon Gabriel Shai Hope ( wk ) Alzarri Joseph Evin Lewis Jason Mohammed Sunil Narine Ashley Nurse Rovman Powell Marlon Samuels

format

In a preliminary round, the three teams each played two games against each other team in a group. There were four points for a win, two for a draw, no result or rejection. The two best placed in the group carry out the final.

Preliminary round

table

At the end of the group stage, the following table resulted.

Teams	Sp.	S.	N	U	R.	NO	A.	BP	Points	NRR
Sri Lanka	4th	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	11	+0.488
Zimbabwe	4th	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	8th	-1,020
West Indies	4th	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	7th	+0.315

Games

November 14th scorecard	Harare	Zimbabwe 154 (41.3)	-	Sri Lanka 155-2 (24.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 8 wickets

November 16 scorecard	Harare	West Indies 227 (49.2)	-	Sri Lanka 165 (43.1)
		West Indies wins with 62 runs

November 19th scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 257 (50)	-	West Indies 257-8 (50)
		draw

November 21 scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 55-2 (13.3)	-	Sri Lanka
		No result

November 23 scorecard	Bulawayo	Sri Lanka 330-7 (50)	-	West Indies 329-9 (50)
		Sri Lanka wins with 1 run

November 25th scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 218-8 (49/49)	-	West Indies 124-5 (27.3 / 27.3)
		Zimbabwe wins with 5 runs ( D / L method )

final

November 27th scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 160 (36.3)	-	Sri Lanka 166-4 (37.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 6 wickets

Web links

• Contest on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zimbabwe to host Sri Lanka for Tests, WI for tri-series ( English ) Cricinfo. September 29, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Hope, Powell named in WI ODI squad for Zimbabwe tri-series ( English ) Cricinfo. October 12, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
3. ↑ Tharanga named SL captain for tri-series ( English ) Cricinfo. November 5, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Musakanda, Mumba among new faces in Zimbabwe's tri-series squad ( English ) Cricinfo. November 11, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
5. ↑ Zimbabwe Tri-Series 2016/17 Table ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
6. ↑ Ram Slam T20 Challenge 2015/16 Table ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved August 26, 2016.