Shubman Gill scored his first international century on Monday as India defeated Zimbabwe by 13 runs to win the ODI series 3-0.

India entered the game seeking their hosts' 15th straight ODI victory as well as a second straight one-day series victory over Zimbabwe, and they were unstoppable in a high-scoring affair.

Shikhar Dhawan (40), KL Rahul (30), and Ishan Kishan all contributed to the tourists' 289-8 score at Harare Sports Club before Gill's historic strike

Brad Evans (5-54) recorded the best figures of his fledgling ODI career and although Sikandar Raza made a brilliant 115 off 95 balls, Zimbabwe fell short on 276 all out.

1 - This is @ShubmanGill's first ton in international cricket; this year he has scored 450 runs in the format at an average of 112.5, no other batter has a higher average than the Indian this year. Future.#ZIMvIND pic.twitter.com/PitEISDa9Q

— OptaJeev (@OptaJeev) August 22, 2022

The wickets began to tumble when Zimbabwe threw caution to the wind midway through the innings, losing Regis Chakabva (16), Takudzwanashe Kaitano (13), Ryan Buri (8) and Luke Jongwe (14) in the space of just under 10 overs.

Raza led a terrific fightback, hitting three sixes and finding the rope nine times before he was caught by Gill off the bowling of Shardul Thakur in the penultimate over, and Avesh Khan finished off the job by cleaning up Victor Nyauchi.

Avesh took 3-66, while Axar Patel (2-30), Kuldeep Yadav (2-38) and Deepak Chahar (2-75) also made an impact with the ball.

India have now won seven consecutive ODIs away from home, their best run since a sequence of nine in a row between July 2017 to February 2018.

Source:livescore.com