| Series Name: | Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2021–22 |
| Team1 Image: | Flag of Sri Lanka.svg |
| Team1 Name: | Sri Lanka |
| Team2 Image: | Flag of Zimbabwe.svg |
| Team2 Name: | Zimbabwe |
| From Date: | 16 |
| To Date: | 21 January 2022 |
| Team1 Captain: | Dasun Shanaka |
| Team2 Captain: | Craig Ervine |
| No Of Odis: | 3 |
| Team1 Odis Won: | 2 |
| Team2 Odis Won: | 1 |
| Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Charith Asalanka (146) Pathum Nissanka (146) |
| Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Sean Williams (154) |
| Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Jeffrey Vandersay (9) |
| Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Richard Ngarava (6) |
| Player Of Odi Series: | Pathum Nissanka (SL) |
The Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in January 2022 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches.[1] [2] The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.[3] [4]
Originally, Zimbabwe were scheduled to tour Sri Lanka in October 2020 to play three ODIs and two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[5] The tour was provisionally scheduled for the middle of October 2020 as part of the schedule released by the International Cricket Council in 2018.[6] However, the series did not take place, and was later rescheduled for January 2022.[7] On 4 January 2022, Rumesh Ratnayake was named as interim head coach for Sri Lanka, after Mickey Arthur's contract ended in December 2021.[8] Craig Ervine was again named as Zimbabwe's captain for the tour, after previously leading the team for their visits to Ireland and Scotland in August and September 2021.[9]
Sri Lanka won the opening match by five wickets,[10] with Zimbabwe's Sean Williams top-scoring with a century.[11] Zimbabwe won the second match by 22 runs to level the series.[12] Sri Lanka's Dasun Shanaka scored a century but, just as Sean Williams in the first match, the centurion ended up on the losing side.[13] In the final match of the series, Zimbabwe were bowled out for 70 runs,[14] with Sri Lanka winning by 184 runs to win the series 2–1.[15]
On 7 January 2022, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) lifted the suspensions of Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis.[18] The players had initially been banned by the SLC from international cricket for one year after breaking COVID-19 bio-bubble rules during the tour of England in July 2021, but became available for selection when their bans were ended early.[19]
Prior to the series, Sri Lanka's vice-captain, Dhananjaya de Silva pulled out of the tour following the birth of his first child.[20] Janith Liyanage, Kamil Mishara and Avishka Fernando were ruled out of the tour, after they each tested positive for COVID-19.[21] [22] Lahiru Kumara and Kalana Perera were not selected due to poor fitness standards.[23] Zimbabwe coach Lalchand Rajput also tested positive ahead of the series, meaning that he would miss at least the first two ODI matches.[24]
Sri Lanka also named Ashen Bandara, Pulina Tharanga, Nimesh Vimukthi, Ashian Daniel, Asitha Fernando and Vishwa Fernando as standby players.[25] Minod Bhanuka was ruled out of Sri Lanka's squad, with Niroshan Dickwella added as his replacement, with Ashen Bandara also added to their main squad.[26]
| scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Rank | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Runs | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Player | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Teams | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Innings | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Average | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | High Score | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | 100 | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 154 | 3 | 51.33 | 100 | 1 | - | |||||||||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 2 | scope=row style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | 146 | align=center rowspan=3 |  | align=center rowspan=5 | 3 | align=center rowspan=2 | 48.67 | align=center | 75 | align=center rowspan=2 | - | align=center rowspan=2 | 2 | ||
| align=center | 71 | ||||||||||||||||
| align=center | 3 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 127 | align=center | 63.50 | align=center | 102 | align=center | 1 | align=center | - | ||||||
| align=center | 4 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 120 | align=center rowspan=2 | align=center | 40.00 | align=center | 72 | align=center rowspan=2 | - | align=center rowspan=2 | 1 | |||||
| align=center | 5 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 100 | align=center | 33.33 | align=center | 91 | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: 1 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
| scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Rank | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Wickets | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Player | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Teams | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Innings | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Best | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Average | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Economy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | | 3 | 4/10 | 11.66 | 4.63 | |||||||||
| align=center | 2 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 6 | align=center rowspan=2 | align=center rowspan=3 | 3 | align=center rowspan=2 | 3/56 | align=center | 23.83 | align=center | 5.10 | |||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 3 | scope=row style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | 5 | align=center | 35.40 | align=center | 6.00 | ||||||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | | align=center | 3/69 | align=center | 19.48 | align=center | 5.38 | ||||||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 4 | scope=row style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | 4 | align=center | 2 | align=center | 2/54 | align=center | 32.00 | align=center | 6.40 | ||||
| align=center | align=center | 3 | align=center | 3/52 | align=center | 35.75 | align=center | 5.50 | |||||||
| Last Updated: 1 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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