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Googly wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 3:07 pm

Who are those two Indian/Bangladeshi guys sitting with the Zim team? Presuming they're courtesy guys there to help out?

Mr X’s goons? No other explanation for such a low strike rate in our first 10 overs

Wet ball doesn't help , not enough runs anyways.

Terribly poor captaincy by Raza, for whatever it was worth he should have bowled out Ngarava and Blessing, a couple of wickets could have given some hope. Instead he bowls Jongwe and the game is over.

sam_ahm wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 3:46 pm

Terribly poor captaincy by Raza, for whatever it was worth he should have bowled out Ngarava and Blessing, a couple of wickets could have given some hope. Instead he bowls Jongwe and the game is over.

I think 22 runs off the first six overs without a boundary was a bigger problem

We also have a spin problem in terms of our bowling. Ainsley bowling flat darts is not going to get us very far.

zimfan1 wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 3:53 pm

sam_ahm wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 3:46 pm

Terribly poor captaincy by Raza, for whatever it was worth he should have bowled out Ngarava and Blessing, a couple of wickets could have given some hope. Instead he bowls Jongwe and the game is over.

I think 22 runs off the first six overs without a boundary was a bigger problem

Of course, but what I mean is specific to that point in time, because the only hope was to get a couple of wickets and it is likely that your main strike bowlers might just provide that.

There is popular saying in cricket that if someone is having a good day then he/she gives you runs, wickets, catches everything... It would have been good to try giving an over each to Bennett and Campbell, Campbell in particular is a proper all rounder, but Raza didn't try them at all... Sometimes a player just has a great game and can pull it off... We've seen Burl do that a few times.

Replace Marumani and Ndlovu with Musekiwa and Muzondo in the squad, surely a bit harsh on Ndlovu because I know he is getting wickets at domestic level but idea here is to have some players who are part of a winning unit at the African Games, sometimes they bring in a positive mindset and it works.

Gumbie can be replaced by either N Welch (give him another go) or K-long and then at least we have a pretty decent squad to choose from.

The other posters may disagree but k-long isn't it.

Crastle_cog wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 4:39 pm

The other posters may disagree but k-long isn't it.

No perfect but scored a century off 40 odd balls today. Has the intent we need at the top of the order.

People were talking about Campbell or Bennett opening for next matches .

Bennett has only ever done that against Uganda. Campbell never. Have to persevere with Gumbie and marumani methinks.