ZIM vs IND

That is that from here then, Shreyas Iyer's regime finally has a series win to show for and he and his men will have a chance to go for a clean sweep in less than 24 hours of time. Back-to-back on the weekened, we will be back with the third and final game of the series tomorrow. Till then, this is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behalf of Bidipto Datta and Shahan. Take care!

Shreyas Iyer (India captain): I feel exultant. The way we won today, it was a comprehensive win. Brilliant contributions from everyone. Starting with the batting, some of the shots that Ishan and Tilak played were rakanaka (Zimbabwean word for good or beautiful). Thought 180-200 was going to be a par score but 220 was like an icing on the cake. With the ball, we hit our line and lengths and bundling them out for 130-odd told you the story. That is how you want to approach, want to be fearless and not dwell on the past performances. Tomorrow is going to be another one, looking forward to it. (any changes expected for tomorrow?) Let's see, I have not spoken to the coach. One of our players is injured (Prince Yadav), there might be a couple of changes

Ishan Kishan is the Player of the Match for his 81 runs off 44 balls, this is what he had to say: When you get runs for your team, get to a good total and get into a winning position, you feel really good. Really happy with the team performance. To be very honest, we did not think that we would get 200 but the target was around 180 as the odd ball was bouncing a bit. You don't want to think about the wickets that have gone, past is past and it is just about being smart in the middle. (keeping to the fast bowlers) Very happy to see them, specially Mayank and Yash, they have worked really hard and it is really nice to see them. They have got a big future ahead

Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe captain): "I felt the boys bowled well in patches, but credit to India as well to batting so well! We need to get better in the field though. But their batting was something to learn from. Ishan is going through a good patch, and batting at number 3 is tricky in this format. He has done extremely well, along with Tilak. We were going to go for it anyway, but it boiled down to the shot selection. The captain has let the team down with the bat! I'll try to turn that around and help the team going forward." 

Yash Thakur (2/30 in 4 overs, on debut): "I am really grateful that I got an opportunity! Thankful to everyone who has supported me. Shreyas bhai and I planned for the slower balls and that worked. Last month, I was playing in Sri Lanka for the A games, but I keep my plans for the red-ball, as well as, the white-ball, separate. I prefer both, to be fair!" 

4:28 PM local time, 7:58 PM IST: MATCH SUMMARY

India (219/5 in 20 overs) beat Zimbabwe (129 all-out in 17.5) by 90 runs

Ishan Kishan 81(44) | Abhishek Sharma 3/17(2.5)
Brian Bennett 32(19) & 1/22(2)

First series win for Shreyas Iyer's men. India are back to winning ways with yet another mauling of the hosts, they take an unassailbale 2-0 lead in this 3-match T20I series and register their second-largest win in terms of runs against Zimbabwe in T20Is only behind their 100-run win in Chennai in the T20 WC a few months back

Will it be a relief for Shreyas Iyer or just a monkey off his back? To be fair, his team has been utterly dominant and made sure they played like the World Champions they are. Dominating and powerful with the bat and then clinical and skilful with the ball to wrap things up, the ghosts of Ireland have been put behind but they will know that the job is not done yet. A 3-0 clean sweep is on the horizon and that would be India's next target in 24 hours time

220 was always going to be a bridge to far for Zimbabwe, even against the inexperince of the Indian bowling lineup. There was good pace and bounce available off the deck and it proved to be too hot to handle for the hosts. They started off in high spirits with Brian Bennett scoring 32 off the first 34 runs in quick time but as soon as he was outsmarted by the debutant Yash Thakur the innings just came spiralling down for Zimbabwe

Wickets for every Indian bowler except Mayank Yadav, they used seven bowlers as a result of Prince Yadav walking off the field with a left hamstring injury. Prince and Yash picked up a couple of wickets each, Bishnoi, Dube and Tilak got one too and in the end it was a 3-er for Abhishek Sharma who registered his best T20I figures

17.5 Abhishek Sharma to Richard Ngarava, INDIA WIN THE SERIES! RINKU TAKES THE CATCH AND ABHISHEK TAKES THREE! Good length, slow and outside off. Ngarava tries to reach for it on the charge and drags it high up on to the on-side. The ball doesn't get well-timed though. Rinku Singh at long-on gets under it and pouches it safely enough to finish things! 

17.3 Abhishek Sharma to Blessing Muzarabani, FOUR RUNS! Full and straight. Smashed down the ground, off the thick inner half, to the left of long-on for a boundary! 

16.6 Yash Thakur to Richard Ngarava, SWING-AND-A-MISS! Into the pitch and over middle-and-leg. A big heave over to the on-side, but a bit miss too. 

16.5 Yash Thakur to Richard Ngarava, round the wicket, yorker on middle-stump this time. Ngarava squeezed out off the block hole, only to get it as far as short cover. No run.

16.4 Yash Thakur to Blessing Muzarabani, full, slow and on the pads. Muzarabani tried to clip it off the front foot, and ended up inside-edging it to deep square for one.

16.3 Yash Thakur to Blessing Muzarabani, AH! Short and uncomfortable over off-stump. The attempted pull shot in front of square meets with fresh air!