ZIM vs IND

Shreyas Iyer collects the trophy and then his teammates join him to celebrate. As is the culture with the Indian team, the trophy is handed to the newest members of the team and hence Ashok Sharma and Yash Thakur get to lift it first. Lots of smiles and happines all around the Indian camp, they deserve to celebrate this win after a tough last month. Back to winning ways and in style!

Time for us to bring the curtains down then, this is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behalf of Bidipto Datta and everyone else in the team. We hope you enjoyed the coverage, ta-ta!

Time for a chat with the winning skipper Shreyas Iyer: (takeaways from the series) As we saw how fearless they are, a young bunch of players who have been showing tremendous energy and intent on the field which is what I require as a skipper specially playing back-to-back. Special feeling for me, clincial 3-0 win. If you see the records, I have played the same number of games as these guys which is around 55-60. They have got a lot of experience from the IPL. I see to it that they are comfortable and getting the best out of the players is what the team needs. As a captain, you see guys stepping up and taking the responsibility and winning games. We have created the momentum, it is going to be challenging moving forward but if we show the courage it will be good. The standard that we set from match one, if we keep levelling up everytime we play rather than focusing on results, that is the message to the guys. No matter what the situation is, we have to be at our best and see the team through

Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe captain): "First of all, credit to Zimbabwe cricket for hosting these matches. We need to play more against these big teams. There are a lot of positives, some young players have come through and are looking forward to take things forward, like Newman Nyamhuri. We want to make sure that this cycle helps us in getting better. I need to score some runs, buy my team some runs! But, the team is doing well even when I'm not contributing. Hopefully, my contribution makes it even better for us!" 

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is the Player of the Match as well as the Player of the series, 81 runs today and a total of 151 runs in the 3-match series, he spoke to Tino Mawoyo and his words were translated by skipper Shreyas Iyer: (how good do you feel?) It was all good. The preperation was really good coming in 2-3 days before. I have played U19 cricket here in Harare, feel good playing here. Thankful to the coaches. (his attitude coming into the series) I tried to play my natural game and play my role for the team, that is what I did in this series. The shots that I play during the practice, I try to replicate during the matches too. First player of the match and player of the series is like a dream come true for me

Ravi Bishnoi (1/24 in 4 overs): "Worked hard on my bowling at the NCA, so, happy with this performance! I have worked hard on getting those back-foot no-balls right. Just stretched them a bit too much, but, things should be better from now. It did skid on, and I used that to my advantage. Always enjoyable to bowl on bigger grounds, as a spinner!" 

4:41 PM local time, 8:11 PM IST: MATCH SUMMARY

India (192/5 in 20 overs) beat Zimbabwe (157/7 in 20 overs) by 35 runs

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 81(49) | Mayank Yadav 3/29(4)
Ryan Burl 54(43) | Brad Evans 2/41(4)

India clean sweep the series, 3-0 it is for the World Champions and they will hang on to their number 1 ranking in T20Is which is a welcome return to form for the team and its fans. Plenty of questions were asked after Ireland and England and the team has responded with thumping wins back-to-back-to-back to blank the hosts

Zimbabwe were never really in the run chase, 193 was a bit too steep a target for them and they got off to the worst possible start losing Bennett on a golden duck to Mayank Yadav for the second time in three games

Yash Thakur struck twice in the fifth over to reduce Zimbabwe to 34/3 and they were behind the 8-ball all the way along. Soon it was 65/4 and the asking rate went well beyond their reach going into the range of 14-1 very early. Burl and Madhevere did try their best with a 50-run stand but it was too little too less for the hosts. Burl got a fifty in the end but it was in vain

Mayank picked up 3 wickets for India and was a big positive for India again, Thakur picked up 2 while the Ashok and Bihsnoi picked one each. While India were brilliant with the ball and the bat, they dropped as many as 5 catches and the fielding was a big let down in what was otherwise a clinical win

Presentations coming up next, hang around

19.6 Mayank Yadav to Newman Nyamhuri, INDIA CLEAN SWEEP THE SERIES! Yorker around off-stump at 143 kph. Nyamhuri gets the bat down on it and drills it out to the wide mid-on area for a single. And that will be that! India, under Shreyas Iyer, win their first T20I series and stay as the number 1 ranked team in the world.

19.5 Mayank Yadav to Brad Evans, FIVE WICKETS FOR MAYANK, IN THE SERIES! Good length, slow and around off. Evans tried to clear the front leg and heave that leg-side. But all he does is top-edge it, for cover to get under and take the catch! 

19.4 Mayank Yadav to Brad Evans, yorker around off-stump now at 143 kph. Squeezed away from deep in the crease to the right of backward point. A good stop from Harsh, but the overthrow to the bowler's end gives away two in the end!