Indian captains to lose to Zimbabwe in T20Is, Shubman Gill joins MS Dhoni in rare list
Image Source : APIndia suffered a 13-run defeat to Zimbabwe in the five-match T20 series opener in Harare as Sikandar Raza and his men proved to be too good with the ball against the young Indian side
Image Source : APCaptain Shubman Gill fought the lone battle scoring 31 but with the wickets falling regularly, it was always going to be an uphill battle for India to chase the score as Zimbabwe got their bowling plans spot on despite having just 115 runs on the board. Gill became the third Indian captain to lose a T20I match against Zimbabwe
Image Source : APIn 2015, Ajinkya Rahane became the first Indian captain to lose a T20I match against Zimbabwe
Image Source : ICC XBatting first, Zimbabwe scored a competitive 145 and later defended it to hand a 10-run loss to India
Image Source : ICC XA year later, MS Dhoni led a young team in Zimbabwe in a three-match T20 series. The Men in Blue lost the series opener to Zimbabwe by just two runs
Image Source : ICC XElton Chigumbura's 26-ball 54 helped Zimbabwe to get to 170, a pretty good score against an inexperienced Indian bowling line-up with Jasprit Bumrah being the stand-out then as well
Image Source : ICC XMandeep Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav and skipper MS Dhoni himself all made vital contributions but none of the set batters kicked on and converted into a big one. Dhoni himself stayed unbeaten on 19 but India fell short by just two runs
Image Source : ICC XNext : Abhishek Sharma enters unwanted list featuring Dhoni, Rahul after duck on debut vs ZIM