[Match Thread] Bangladesh v Zimbabwe: 2nd ODI

[jimbo]

You must be joking having raymond price higher in the batting order than cremer, Cremer is a good bat who won us a match against Ireland and also has a first class highest score of 171

[PSR]

WILL BE LIVE ON NEO SPORTS

[Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic)]

Hamilton is a good player no doubt but i dont think he will perform better than Chamu if they are to fight it out(only in this series). Chamu has better stats than Hamilton in Bangladesh, plus the guy just scored a good 20+ runs so taking him out wont be fair when there are a few people who didnt bat that well.

Chibhabha is a good player against pace. There is no comparison of HM's exploits against spin and HM's bowling while comparing Chibhabha.

[Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic)]

Strategies for Zimbabwe

1. Changes in the Side : Meth goes out,Cremer comes in. Chibabha will have to bowl in place of Meth and i know the outcome. Chibhabha is also likely to get smashed to all parts but he has picked up wickets in the Domestic T20 and that should help.

Meth was responsible for the win in first ODI as well as good showing in warm up. He just CANT be ignored. It's really dangerous to bowl Justice. T20 at harare is different preposition than ODI at Dhaka.

2. Batting Order : Ervine has to bat at the top of the order. For me,he is more orthodox player than anyone else in the squad and batting at 6 is a shame. He showed he can play spin well and should be given the chance to play a long innings. Chigumbura needs to be more responsible,take the singles and two's vigorously. Butterworth and Chigumbura will have to fight for that big hitting allrounder slot. Good to see Regis do good..I want this guy to score runs heavily. Taibu seriously needs some push in the back..He is far too inconsistent and good in patches.

Ervine is a good player but susceptible to spin. For a change it was good to see him playing nicely against spin. He can fail however. For, the second match, i will go with Campbell's strategy of promoting him up the order. Out of the 2 teams, he is the leading run-scorer in ODI's and we want him quickly back in form. Agree with Regis and Taibu comments.

The tail can bat but looks really incompetent to me..I don't think few lusty blows in patches by utseya can make him a man to get quick runs in the death overs...Someone needs to be more adapt at this role..And,chigumbura needs to bat low and there needs to be someone supporting him who can hit big.

The ideal option is Meth whom you have omitted. Lusty hitter at death.

3. Bowling
Bowling looks fine...Taylor looks intelligent when he bowls and can be a great one to go for when someone is expensive. Now,the concern is the second seamer and i think chibhabha is go-to man...So,it should be OK.
Masakadza Hamilton is p'ship breaker. Taylor is part timer and liable to get hit

[Detective RDS]

You must be joking having raymond price higher in the batting order than cremer, Cremer is a good bat who won us a match against Ireland and also has a first class highest score of 171

OK OK. I have edited. Here comes Cremer at no 9 and Price at no 10.

Actually I placed Price before Cremer in the batting order because I always remember an ODI match of last year against Bangladesh where Price won the match for Zimbabwe scoring 20 odd runs with Mupariwa.
http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Score ... 08931.html

I think, Cremer didn't have much success off late with the bat internationally. But as you guys are confident about his batting ability, OK for me...

And thanks who liked my XI. But personally I don't think that there will be any change for tomorrow's match. I won't appreciate but Zimbabwe will basically stick with the same winning combination

[sloandog]

And thanks who liked my XI. But personally I don't think that there will be any change for tomorrow's match. I won't appreciate but Zimbabwe will basically stick with the same winning combination

That's where Campbell needs to use his head and look at a few things. Who contributed ?? Why didn't he contribute ?? Who could do it more effectivly ??

[sloandog]

Match Facts


Friday, December 3
Start time 09:00 (03:00 GMT)



Shakib Al Hasan scored a half-century in the first ODI against Zimbabwe but later said he was not happy with his role as Bangladesh captain © Associated Press

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Matches: Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Dhaka
Series/Tournaments: Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh
Teams: Bangladesh | Zimbabwe




The Big Picture


Bangladesh will be under intense pressure to recover from Wednesday's double-whammy - a surprise loss to Zimbabwe followed by their captain Shakib Al Hasan's outburst that he was not satisfied with his role as captain nor with the team he has been given. A single loss should not really take all the wind out of Bangladesh's sails, as the memory of their 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand in October is still fresh, but a wavering captain makes them especially vulnerable.

Zimbabwe have the opportunity to prove they could be a threat to the other sides in their group during the World Cup next year. They are notorious giant-killers in World Cups, and the spin duo of Ray Price and Prosper Utseya will relish the conditions in the subcontinent, as they showed in the first ODI.

Both sides will hope to better their batting performances from the first match. Even during Bangladesh's series win over New Zealand, they never once crossed 250 and had to rely on their left-arm spinners to deliver victories. Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura will have to start with himself if he wants his batsmen to improve, having only scored one half-century this year.


Form Guide


(most recent first) Bangladesh: LWWWW

Zimbabwe: WLLLLL


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Tatenda Taibu has averaged 37.38 in ODIs over the last 12 months and with Chigumbura struggling for runs and the inexperienced Regis Chakabva and Craig Ervine making up the rest of Zimbabwe's middle-order, the onus will be on Taibu to score runs in the middle overs. Taibu has had plenty of experience playing on subcontinent tracks and will need to take the lead in showing the rest of the batsmen how to deal with Bangladesh's spinners.

Bangladesh let Zimbabwe get away to a quick start in the first ODI before the spinners pulled the game back. They will be looking to Mashrafe Mortaza to prevent that from happening on Friday. Mortaza's position in the side is an interesting one because he was originally named captain for the New Zealand series but injured himself in the first game. The selectors decided to stick with Shakib despite Mortaza's return and he will now have to prove that he can be a match-winner with the ball if he is to be handed back the captaincy.


Pitch Conditions


The teams will stay in Dhaka for the second and third ODIs so conditions can be expected to be the same as the first match. The trend at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium has been batsmen struggling with the slow and low conditions and the spinners able to maintain a lid on run-scoring. As the first ODI proved, a total of anything more than 200 will prove challenging for the side batting second as the wicket gets slower and offers some turn.


Teams


Shakib said Bangladesh missed the fielding skills of Naeem Islam and Raqibul Hassan, so they could come in to the side. Mohammad Ashraful's return to the team saw him make just seven runs, so there might be pressure to drop him again. Junaid Siddique will also be under pressure having failed to get past 20 in each of his last four innings.

Bangladesh (probable): 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique/ Naeem Islam, 4 Raqibul Hasan / Mohammad Ashraful, 5 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 7 Suhrawadi Shuvo, 8 Mahmudullah, 9 Mashrafe Mortaza, 10 Abdur Razzak, 11 Shafiul Islam

Hamilton Masakadza was dropped for the first ODI and with his replacement Chakabva top-scoring for Zimbabwe, could continue to be left out. Zimbabwe also have hard-hitting allrounder Ryan Butterworth in their squad.

Zimbabwe (probable): 1 Brendan Taylor, 2 Chamu Chibhabha, 3 Regis Chakabva, 4. Tatenda Taibu (wk), 5 Elton Chigumbura (capt), 6 Craig Ervine, 7 Keegan Meth, 8 Prosper Utseya, 9 Keith Dabengwa, 10 Raymond Price, 11 Chris Mpofu


Stats and Trivia


There has never been a score of over 300 during a day game at the Shere Bangla Stadium Zimbabwe have only two batsmen in their line-up with a strike-rate of over 70 in ODIs.

Elton Chigumbura strike-rate of 88.33 is the highest for any Zimbabwe batsman who has scored more than 1000 runs in ODIs.

In 26 Innings, Zimbabwe No.11 Chris Mpofu has hit a solitary four and averages 2.38.



Quotes


"I am not satisfied with my role as a captain. The reasons are numerous, and I cannot detail all of them right at the moment."
Shakib Al Hasan makes his displeasure with his position as leader known

"We need to do more as a team and our total today fell short of what we had wanted as a target."
Alan Butcher, the Zimbabwe coach, is not resting on his laurels and wants his batsmen to step up their game.

[mdm]

Still looks like an unchanged team today according to Newsday http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2010-1 ... second-odi

[eugene]

Unchanged team. Idiots.

[Kriterion_BD]

chibhabha neither got behind nor on top of that cut shot...