Captain Sikandar Raza and fast bowler Brad Evans inspired Zimbabwe to its biggest Twenty20 win over Sri Lanka on Thursday, by 67 runs.

Sri Lanka was 95 all out on the final ball in its opening match of the tri-series. Evans took 3-9 and all six bowlers got wickets.

Zimbabwe posted a par total of 162-8 after being sent in to bat; Raza made 47 off 32 balls and opening batter Brian Bennett 49, missing out on a second successive half-century.

"You want to be there when the chips are down and be prepared to do the dirty work for the team," Raza said. ''If I'm trying, I feel my team is going to try." Sri Lanka is enduring a horrible white-ball tour of Pakistan. Before the tri-series, it lost the ODI series to Pakistan 3-0.

Sri Lanka didn't get any momentum once it lost Pathum Nissanka for a

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