In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.
While Sri Lanka were chasing 209 runs we have too many ups and downs with both teams wee struggling badly and lacking of quality and experience which hurt them but still Sri Lanka having good advantage as their newly debutant batsman Janith Liyanage keep his cool and not allow Zimbabwean bowlers to take full control, and he stands till good recovery but as he bowled out on 172 then we still have 37 and just 2 wickets but tail enders done good job and enjoy inexperienced bowling of Mohammad Faraz Akram who bowled 49th over and give 13 runs for the win of Sri Lanka which is now leading the series.
Richard Ngarava take 5 for 32 and captain Sikandar Raza lead from front with having 2 for 32 but all gone in vain as they were not able to bowled out last two wickets while they were doing good job throughout the match after having poor target of 209.