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Earlier, after being invited to bat first, Zimbabwe lost Wessly Madhevere for 9 runs, while Tadiwanashe Marumani failed to open his account. Despite losing a couple of quick wickets,

Tinashe Kamunhukamwe and Sean Williams scored at a brisk pace. However, Curtis Campher trapped Williams for 17 runs and ceased the partnership. Kamunhukamwe contributed 39 runs off 27 balls.

Ryan Burl and Clive Madande took responsibility for scoring in the latter half of the innings, and the duo played at a decent pace to keep the scoreboard ticking and shifted gears at the cue end of the innings. Burl remained unbeaten on 38 runs, while Madande remained unbeaten on 44 runs, helping their side post a decent 165/5 in 20 overs. 

Mark Adair bagged a couple of wickets for Ireland, while Craig Young, Gareth Delany, and Curtis Campher celebrated a solitary wicket. 

In pursuit of 165 runs, Andrew Balbirnie and Paul Stirling struggled to time the ball and departed cheaply inside the powerplay. Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector started building the partnership in the middle, but their progress was abruptly halted by Trevor Gwandu, who trapped Tucker for run-a-ball 12 runs and bagged his maiden T20I wicket. 

Curtis Campher joined Tector in the middle, and the duo steadied the ship, scoring at a decent pace. Zimbabwe struggled to break this partnership as the partnership moved over 50 runs, and eventually, Brian Bennett trapped Campher for 37 runs and ceased the 60+ run partnership. Campher was soon followed by Tector, who was clean-bowled by a peach of a delivery from Ngarava, falling just 2 runs shy of his fifty. 

George Dockrell and Mark Adair played a crucial knock at the cue end of the innings and didn't let the match slip away from them. The equation was reduced to 7 runs off the final over, and Jongwe extracted the wicket of Adair in the first ball of the final over and injected some thrill into the match. However, Dockrell held his nerve and sealed the deal for the visitors with a boundary on the 4th ball of the over. 

The Zimbabwe bowlers were over the Irish batters in the powerplay and managed to extract the wickets of both openers, but they failed to carry the momentum and kept leaking runs at regular intervals. Richard Ngarava bagged a couple of wickets for the home side, while Blessing Muzarabani, Trevor Gwandu, Luke Jongwe, and Brian Bennett celebrated one wicket. 

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