The 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series was a
cricket
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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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,
Pakistan and
Zimbabwe, with all the matches played as
Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) at the
Harare Sports Club.
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
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and three
One Day International
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s (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.
(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
Graeme Cremer was sacked following the
2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The 2018 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that took place during March 2018 in Zimbabwe. It formed the final part of the Cricket World Cup qualification process for the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales. The top two te ...
tournament.
A day before the first match,
Hamilton Masakadza 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
Donald Tiripano 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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2018 in Australian cricket
2018 in Pakistani cricket
2018 in Zimbabwean cricket
International cricket competitions in 2018
Australian cricket tours of Zimbabwe
Pakistani cricket tours of Zimbabwe