[Match Thread] Ireland v Zimbabwe (World Cup Pool B)

[brmtaylor.com admin]

What a surprise, our medium pacers going for runs at the death yet again. When will we learn.

[FlowerPower]

Like I said I'm a bit off Zim cricket but explain Panyangara is he the best we have...genuine question

[grant]

now this balbirnie guy is smashing sixes....... he had such poor batting stats before this match

[Yorker]

Any link please?

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Panyangara would be a good third seamer to have, where he has the luxury of bowling himself out in the middle overs. But he's awful at the death.

We've been truly shafted with the ground sizes too. Everywhere except the Gabba and Manuka have been grounds the size of a postage stamp, which affects us the worst off all teams I'd say given how poor our death bowling is.

now this balbirnie guy is smashing sixes....... he had such poor batting stats before this match

Yeah it's a joke isn't it. We turn average batsmen into superstars. It'd be like Panyangara going out and getting a hundred.

[grant]

if things continue this way, we'll be chasing 400

[Jemisi]

Like I said I'm a bit off Zim cricket but explain Panyangara is he the best we have...genuine question

he is as good as, Shingi has lost form, others gone, Vitori was injured then unfit, still finding his way back. Still, with the displays in this WC Panyangara may be out soon.

[grant]

Panyangara would be a good third seamer to have, where he has the luxury of bowling himself out in the middle overs. But he's awful at the death.

We've been truly shafted with the ground sizes too. Everywhere except the Gabba and Manuka have been grounds the size of a postage stamp, which affects us the worst off all teams I'd say given how poor our death bowling is.

If only he could produce some of those toe-crushing yorkers today...... the way he did against Ire last year in the t-20 wc. he was very accurate at the death that day

[FlowerPower]

Like I said I'm a bit off Zim cricket but explain Panyangara is he the best we have...genuine question

No hating but really? Its now customary for him to come back last 10 and batting pp to serve up dollies to set batsmen....this really is abysmal from Zim bowling...and fielding great dissapointment...same vs SA vs Pakistan decent upfront attrotious last 15....and no lessons learnt...terrible terrible ...come on Douggy

[brmtaylor.com admin]

I'd be dropping Mupariwa before Panyangara. I don't dislike Mupariwa, but I don't see what everyone else sees in him - he's predictable, slow, doesn't move it off the seam, doesn't swing it. He's got not a threatening bowler. Sure he may have averaged 26 a decade ago but the game has changed, I just don't see a place for a bowler like him anymore.

Panyangara is at least a touch quicker and get get some movement, it makes him - at the very least - a threat upfront.