India sealed the three-match T20I series against Zimbabwe with a 90-run win in the second match on Saturday, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead.Six centuries from Ishan Kishan and Tilak Varma, followed by a fine bowling performance, helped India pile up the batsmen after posting 219/5.The win also gave a new T20I captaincy Shreyas Iyer His first series win after India lost the last T20I series under his leadership against Ireland (0-2) and England (0-4).Chasing 220, Zimbabwe’s task became difficult as they lost five wickets within the first nine overs. In the end 129 were released.Brian Bennett gave Zimbabwe a brutal start, scoring 32 off 19 balls with three fours and three sixes. He took on Yash Thakur, hitting him for a six and a four in a row, but the pacer responded immediately as Bennett’s attempt at a direct shot was caught by wicketkeeper Kishan.
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Thakur finished with 2/30, as the Indian bowlers took wickets at regular intervals.Ryan Burl and Tadi Marumani did a lot in the 20th over, but Zimbabwe could not build a partnership that could put pressure on India.Tilak Varma’s part-time spinners are Abhishek Sharma also chipped in with wickets, with Abhishek returning figures of 3/17 as India finished the innings well.India, however, faced an injury crisis when the pacer Prince Yadav left the field with a hamstring strain after bowling 1.2 overs. He finished with a score of 2/10.Earlier, India recovered from 29/2 after being asked to bat first.Kishan added 66 runs for the third wicket with the captain Shreyas Iyer, who scored 25, was not stopped by Tilak Varma’s 94-run.Kishan made 81 off 44 balls. He reached his fifty in 31 games before adding 31 runs in just 13 balls. Most of his scoring came on the leg side, where he found boundaries time and again.He hit Bennett for a four over mid-wicket and then hit pacer Brad Evans for a four and a six in the same area.Tilak remained unbeaten on 60 off 29 balls. He reached 50 in just 23 overs and beat Zimbabwe’s leading batsman Blessing Muzarabani by three consecutive boundaries. One of them came with a late dab behind point using the pace of the bowler, as he again hit Evans for six wickets.India have scored 61 runs in the last five overs.The visitors had lost all those openings cheaply.Abhishek Sharma was caught when he left Muzarabani, while Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made 20 off nine balls, including 4, 6, 4 and 4 against Richard Ngarava. But the left-arm pacer had the last word as Sooryavanshi missed a bouncer to Muzarabani at mid-on.From there, Kishan and Tilak took over to establish another victory in India.