Match Thread: Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh 1st T20 (3rd May)

[secretzimbo]

Burl has played about 130 international matches - he is absolutely a senior player!!

[Mr Twig]

Goodbye middle stump

[andrea lanzoni]

So.... for many months the question has been: "how a future without the big three".

Today it was it: all of them out for zero.

Some pondering may be done at mid innings:
- 124 is a score I would have never foreseen when the situation was 41 for 7
- yes todays IPL is showing boom boom cricket at more than 200 runs per innings. However 124 is something more than decent outside superstars circuit
- a tail hitting at 8.40 run rate in last 5 overs is not bad
- ....without big three today meant playing with 8 batsmen. If three decent opening batsmen come out to replace big three the squad may cruise around 150-160 per innings. I know it wouldn't be enough. It would nonetheless not far away from the recent performances.

[sam_ahm]

Burl's place can be under threat if there are players knocking on the door. With the available talent that we have Burl is far better.

Anyways great to see Blessing cleaning up Litton. Litton has been in wretched form of late. Might not win this but got to push as much as they can and make a match out of this.

[ZIMDOGGY]

Today was a bad day to be white

[secretzimbo]

Today was a bad day to be white

I give it all of an hour before we get the ‘white players sabotaging a black coach!’ social media trolls as usual!

[Kriterion_BD]

So.... for many months the question has been: "how a future without the big three".

Today it was it: all of them out for zero.

Some pondering may be done at mid innings:
- 124 is a score I would have never foreseen when the situation was 41 for 7
- yes todays IPL is showing boom boom cricket at more than 200 runs per innings. However 124 is something more than decent outside superstars circuit
- a tail hitting at 8.40 run rate in last 5 overs is not bad
- ....without big three today meant playing with 8 batsmen. If three decent opening batsmen come out to replace big three the squad may cruise around 150-160 per innings. I know it wouldn't be enough. It would nonetheless not far away from the recent performances.

124 is a terrible total. 144 would have been a mediocre total. There doesn't seem to be any demons on this pitch.

8.4 rpo from the tail is decent, true.

[tgk]

Dude what the fuck is Blessing doing, Madande would've had that easy.

[tgk]

Dude what the fuck is Blessing doing, Madande would've had that easy.

Gumbie* sorry

[Kriterion_BD]

Man Zimbabwe must be the tallest cricket team going around...just saw a white guy (Brian Bennett presumably) and he's as tall as Craig who's 6'2" or 6'3"...

Blessing - 6'8"
Ngarava - 6'4"
Ervine - 6'3"
Bennett or some other white guy - 6'3"
Jongwe - 6'2"