Match Thread: Pakistan v Zimbabwe, 5th ODI

[maehara]

From a CricInfo commenter:

No offense to Zim, but Zimbabwe is not an opposition, against whom, you can compare someone being better? Everybody can score against them.

Cheeky so-and-so..

[maehara]

Pakistan win by 7 wickets, win series 5-0.
Well, that was disappointing...

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Pakistan win by 7 wickets, win series 5-0.
Well, that was disappointing...

It shows we have a long way to go.

One thing that wasn't disappointing about this series was Ray Price, he is our only first class bowler.

[Train Driver]

Yuck, what an awful way to finish off the series.

I thought the team had shown a lot of progress during this series but a dreadful performance like this will just give people another chance to say that Zim are not good enough to compete at the top level.

A good effort from Ray Price but the bowlers simply have not been good enough during the 5 games, Robin Brown will have to put the lack of bowling firepower at the top of his list of 'things to do'.

Nice accurate spell of bowling from Dabengwa again

[maehara]

I thought the team had shown a lot of progress during this series but a dreadful performance like this will just give people another chance to say that Zim are not good enough to compete at the top level.

People will say that about Zim & Bangladesh regardless of their results - it's just a built-in reaction from a certain set of 'purist' fans.

The annoying thing about this series is that Zim performed better in the early matches, against a stronger Pakistan side, and just seemed to lose interest as the series went on (and I don't think that's down to Utseya's absence). There were probably three matches they could have won, given a little application and an additional specialist bowler. Zim didn't lose because Pakistan were so much stronger, as I don't think they are - they lost because their own tactics weren't up to the job. Injuries didn't help, either.

Lots of things for Robin Brown to work on before India in May - they are a strong side, and Zim will need to be properly prepared for them.

[aydee]

First performance this series where Zim were genuinely thrashed... In genuine, I thought that the series was quite encouraging, but obviously today was lame... Lokks like the Provinces side has fallen to pieces as well...

[jimbo]

Blessing mahwire and rainsford should be the recalled bowlers to play in our next series

[zulu]

Blessing mahwire and rainsford should be the recalled bowlers to play in our next series

Yes I agree we need strike bowlers in the side if we are going to bowl good sides out, Rainsford and Mahwire are better and quicker bowlers than Mupariwa and Mpofu in my opinion so ya get them in!

[farhan]

well sad end the series for zim, i think they should have played 4 speacialist bowlers along with chigumbura in the side.complete lack of slection issue, robin need to think his way of playing, put some more bowlers so you can get a chance to hold good teams,lets get back rainsford or any other promising young bowler to give tough time to good teams.