Zimbabwe vs. UAE, World T20: Video Highlights, Scorecard, Report

Zimbabwe finished their preliminary campaign at the World Twenty20 in style with a resounding five-wicket win over the United Arab Emirates in Sylhet—but they must wait on the result of Ireland vs. Netherlands to see if their campaign continues.

If Ireland win, they qualify—but anything less and their net run rate will slip behind the Zimbabweans', and that will be the end for the men in green. 

Asked to bat first, the Emiratis' score of 116-9 from their 20 overs looked light, and so it proved.

The Zimbabweans did wobble, reaching 34-4 at one point, but Elton Chigumbura's quickfire unbeaten 50 turned that fragility into a decisive win with more than six overs to spare.

UAE Innings
Total	for 9	116
Zimbabwe Innings
Total	for 5	118	(13.4 ovs)
Batsman	Dismissal	Bowler	Runs	Mins	Balls
Anwar	c Taylor	b Chatara	6	3	6
Asif	run out (Raza)		1	6	3
Khurram Khan	c Chigumbura	b Williams	26	31	27
Patil	lbw	b Raza	30	32	26
Mustafa	run out (Chatara)		4	12	8
Ali	lbw	b Williams	1		4
Amjad Javed	c Panyangara	b Raza	8	15	10
Raza	c Mushangwe	b Williams	0		4
Silva	not out		13	24	16
Kamran Shazad		b Chatara	21	13	15
Guruge	not out		1
Extras	0nb 4w 0b 1lb	5
Bowler	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
Utseya	4.0	0	18	0
Chatara	4.0	0	21	2
Panyangara	3.0	0	23	0
Mushangwe	2.0	0	23	0
Williams	4.0	0	15	3
Raza	3.0	0	15	2
Batsman	Dismissal	Bowler	Runs	Mins	Balls
H Masakadza		b Guruge	2	5	4
Raza	c Kamran Shazad	b Raza	9	28	14
Taylor	c Anwar	b Silva	15	4	7
Williams	c and b Guruge		0	3	3
Sibanda	c and b Khurram Khan		16	24	19
Chigumbura	not out		53	29	21
Maruma	not out		22	18	14
Extras	0nb 0w 1b 0lb	1
Bowler	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
Silva	3.0	0	20	1
Guruge	4.0	0	18	2
Raza	3.0	0	29	1
Kamran Shazad	1.4	0	30	0
Khurram Khan	1.0	0	8	1
Amjad Javed	1.0	0	12	0

Khurram Khan (26) and Swapnil Patel (30) were the only two batsmen for the minnows to make a true impression, building a platform of 66-2 at one stage before falling around the halfway mark.

And with them, their hopes largely evaporated. The middle order came and went for a string of single-figure scores, the tail chipped in when it was already too late.

Slow left-armer Sean Williams recorded the surprise best figures with 3-15 from his four overs, strangling the life out of the innings.

Cool heads would surely have eased Zimbabwe to victory, but their best batsmen gave it away too easily. Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor and Williams were all gone within four overs—Sikandar Raza then followed as the scoring rate slowed.

An upset suddenly looked a possibility, but Chigumbura made a mockery of that with his counter-attacking innings.

He clubbed three sixes and six boundaries in his 21-ball knock, flaying the batting to all parts. With Timycen Maruma for company, the game belonged to the Zimbabweans, and attention switched to the match that will decide their fate.