title: Zimbabwean cricket team in India in 2000–01
text: # Zimbabwean cricket team in India in 2000–01
  
  Zimbabwean national cricket team toured India in 2000-01 season. The tour lasted from 8 November to 14 December and included series of 2 Tests and 5 One Day Internationals. India won the Test series by 1-0 and ODIs series by 4-1.
  
  ## Tour matches
  
  ### Three-day: National Cricket Academy XI v Zimbabwe XI
  
  * 8–10 Nov 2000 Scorecard
  * Match drawn Nehru Stadium, Indore Umpires: A. Y. Gokhale (Ind) and R. Radhakrishnan (Ind)
  * Zimbabwe XI won the toss and elected to field.
  
  ### Three-day: Indian Board President's XI v Zimbabwe XI
  
  * 13–15 Nov 2000 Scorecard
  * Zimbabwe XI won by 4 wickets Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad Umpires: Sanjeeva Rao (Ind) and M. S. Mahal (Ind)
  * Indian Board President's XI won the toss and elected to bat.
  
  ## Test series
  
  ### 1st Test
  
  * 18 November 2000 (2000-11-18) Scorecard
  * India won by 7 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: JH Hampshire and S Venkataraghavan Player of the match: Javagal Srinath
  * Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat
  * Vijay Dahiya made his debut in Test matches
  
  ### 2nd Test
  
  * 25 November 2000 (2000 -11-25) Scorecard
  * Match drawn Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and RS Dunne Player of the match: Andy Flower
  * India won the toss and decided to bat
  * Sarandeep Singh made his debut in Test matches
  
  ## ODI series
  
  ### 1st ODI
  
  * 2 December 2000 Scorecard
  
  | Zimbabwe 253/6 (50 overs) | v | India 255/7 (47.2 overs) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Stuart Carlisle 91* (125) Ajit Agarkar 2/74 (10 overs) | | Hemang Badani 58*(69) Brian Murphy 2/45 (6 overs) |
  
  * India won by 3 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Jasbir Singh (Ind) and Arani Jayaprakash (Ind) Player of the match: Hemang Badani (Ind)
  * Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
  * Reetinder Sodhi (Ind) made his ODI debut.
  
  ### 2nd ODI
  
  * 6 December 2000 Scorecard
  
  | India 306/5 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 245/8 (50 overs) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Sourav Ganguly 144 (152) Travis Friend 1/37 (10 overs) | | Heath Streak 51 (57) Sridharan Sriram 3/47 (8 overs) |
  
  * India won by 61 runs Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (Ind) and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
  * India won the toss and elected to bat.
  
  ### 3rd ODI
  
  * 8 December 2000 Scorecard
  
  | India 283/8 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 284/9 (49.5 Overs) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Sachin Tendulkar 146 (153) Grant Flower 3/43 (10 overs) | | Andy Flower 70 (94) Venkatesh Prasad 3/61 (10 overs) |
  
  * Zimbabwe won by 1 wicket Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Player of the match: Grant Flower (Zim)
  * India won the toss and elected to bat.
  * It was the first ODI played at this venue.
  * Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) broke Desmond Haynes' (Win) record for most centuries scored on home soil. He also became the first to score 1,000 runs against Zimbabwe in ODIs.
  * Zaheer Khan scored 25 runs in the 50th over of India's innings, the most by an India player in an over of an ODI.
  * Andy Flower and Grant Flower's partnership of 158 runs was Zimbabwe's highest for the fourth wicket in an ODI.
  * Ajit Agarkar (Ind) picked his 100th wicket in ODIs.
  * Zimbabwe's total of 284 was their highest against India in ODIs.
  * Zimbabwe's win margin of one wicket was their narrowest in ODIs.
  
  ### 4th ODI
  
  * 11 December 2000 Scorecard
  
  | Zimbabwe 165 (45.4 overs) | v | India 166/1 (25 overs) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Alistair Campbell 32 (44) Sourav Ganguly 5/34 (10 overs) | | Sourav Ganguly 71* (68) Travis Friend 1/40 (5 overs) |
  
  * India won by 9 wickets Green Park, Kanpur Umpires: Chandra Sathe (Ind) and Devendra Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
  * Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
  
  ### 5th ODI
  
  * 14 December 2000 Scorecard
  
  | India 301/6 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 262 (47.4 overs) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Hemang Badani 77 (99) Brian Murphy 3/63 (10 overs) | | Trevor Madondo 71 (70) Ajit Agarkar 3/26 (8.4 overs) |
  
  * India won by 39 runs Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Umpires: Vinayak Kulkarni (Ind) and Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Player of the match: Ajit Agarkar (Ind)
  * Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
  * Amiesh Saheba (Ind) officiated for the first time in ODIs as an umpire.
  * This was Rahul Dravid's first match as India captain.
  * Ajit Agarkar beat the record held by Kapil Dev for the fastest fifty by an India player in ODIs (21 balls).
  