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

[grant]

looks like mire has hurt himself

[zimbos_05]

Quite glad i did not wake up early to watch this. We seem to have the most toothless bowling attack in the world. We have probably conceded the most runs from all the teams in this tournament. Now we cant even bat to save our lives. Horrible.

[Jemisi]

so all we need is a 200 run partnership between Taylor and Williams

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Quite glad i did not wake up early to watch this. We seem to have the most toothless bowling attack in the world. We have probably conceded the most runs from all the teams in this tournament. Now we cant even bat to save our lives. Horrible.

Yeah. It looks like the strategy coming into this tournament was to rely on allrounders, guys like Mire and Chigumbura getting through lots of overs and bolstering the batting in the process. It was a reasonable idea I guess, but in the end it's just weakened our bowling too much. We've definitely been a seamer short. And arguably a quality spinner short - an offspinning Utseya would have been very useful.

[foreignfield]

In the other game looks like PAK will choke to SA which Ireland needs to progress.

Pak won, so now Ireland either have to boost their NRR today beyond recognition or hope for the Windies to bottle it against UAE.

[Kriterion_BD]

In the other game looks like PAK will choke to SA which Ireland needs to progress.

Pak won, so now Ireland either have to boost their NRR today beyond recognition or hope for the Windies to bottle it against UAE.

They might get an NRR boost today, but they're so far behind that their best bet is to beat Pakistan...which is pretty possible given how erratic PAK are.

[foreignfield]

In the other game looks like PAK will choke to SA which Ireland needs to progress.

Pak won, so now Ireland either have to boost their NRR today beyond recognition or hope for the Windies to bottle it against UAE.

They might get an NRR boost today, but they're so far behind that their best bet is to beat Pakistan...which is pretty possible given how erratic PAK are.

The Pakistani quicks will blow them away.

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Time for that 200 run partnership Jemisi talked about.

A shame Mire didn't build on his form against Bangladesh in this tournament. Maybe like with Kamungozi, results against BD flatter to deceive.

[Jemisi]

Mire really hasn't come off at this cup

[zimbos_05]

Completely non sensical from Mire. He was a wicket waiting to happen. Foot movement non existent. Clear panic in his batting. Just slashing at every shot rather than trying to move the ball around and work singles and then punish the odd ball. Absolutely terrible stuff.