India vs Zimbabwe 1st T20I 2024 Live Score: ZIM beat IND by 13 runs in Harare 

IND vs ZIM Live Score, India vs Zimbabwe T20 World Cup 1st T20I Match Today: Get India vs Zimbabwe Live Updates from Harare Sports Club in Harare

India vs Zimbabwe Live Score, IND vs ZIM 1st T20I Match Today: Tendai Chatara and Sikandar Raza for Zimbabwe has picked up three wickets each to defend the lowest total ever against India and take a 1-0 lead in the first of five-match T20I series at Harare Sports Club in Harare on Saturday.

Earlier Ravi Bishnoi’s four wickets restricted Zimbabwe to 115/9 after Indian skipper Shubman Gill won the toss and opted to bowl first on pitch which looked on the drier side.

As India’s new T20 era begins in Zimbabwe, focus on taking forward attacking philosophy of World Cup winning team

Shubman Gill will lead India in the five-match T20I series in Zimbabwe. (BCCI)

The dust has settled and the hangover from Bridgetown is still lingering. But in Harare, India will take a fresh guard in a format that has just brought them a World Cup. Exactly a week after Rohit Sharma & Co lifted the title, at the Harare Sports Club India are officially entering a period of transition with an eye on the next T20 World Cup to be played at home and in Sri Lanka.

While much of their roadmap will be clear only after a new head coach takes over, India’s immediate focus is very much on Test cricket, especially the tour of Australia later this year. The Indian Express understands that keeping the gruelling schedule ahead, which will see them play 10 Tests between September to January, India are prepared to try out young guns in the T20Is and ODIs even for the tour of Sri Lanka that follows soon after the Zimbabwe trip. (READ MORE)