Zimbabwe veteran Brendan Taylor has gone previous Sachin Tendulkar to develop into the longest-serving participant in males’s ODI historical past after taking the sphere within the first ODI towards Australia in Harare on Tuesday.Taylor’s ODI profession now spans 22 years and 4 months, transferring him forward of Tendulkar, whose ODI profession lasted 22 years and three months earlier than he retired from the format in 2012.Tendulkar, nonetheless, nonetheless holds the report for probably the most ODI runs with 18,426 and probably the most appearances within the format with 463 matches.Taylor, 40, made his ODI debut in 2004 and has gone on to develop into one in every of Zimbabwe’s main batters. Going into Tuesday’s match, he had scored a national-record 11 ODI centuries in 207 matches.Taylor retired from worldwide cricket in 2021, however in 2022 he was handed a three-and-a-half-year ban for breaching the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Anti-Doping codes.After finishing his suspension, he got here out of retirement in 2025 as Zimbabwe started getting ready to co-host the 2027 ODI World Cup with South Africa and Namibia.In the meantime, Australia received the toss on Tuesday and determined to bat of their first one-day cricket worldwide in Zimbabwe in 12 years.Australian captain Mitchell Marsh is likely one of the three survivors in each groups to have performed within the final ODI in Zimbabwe which the host group received. Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza and Brendan Taylor are the opposite two gamers, who did compete in that well-known Zimbabwe victory in 2014.Lineups:Australia: Mitchell Marsh (captain), Travis Head, Cooper Connolly, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey, Matt Renshaw, Ollie Peake, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson.Zimbabwe: Brian Bennett, Ben Curran, Harmless Kaia, Brendan Taylor, Craig Ervine, Sikandar Raza (captain), Wessly Madhevere, Brad Evans, Newman Nyamhuri, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani.FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES
