Let's keep those wickets!

[clikcspeed]

Having followed the recent tour to Bangladesh I was disappointed that we did not manage to win the series. Although the score was 4 - 1 (just like the earlier series in Bulawayo) I picked up a few areas that may be of interest.

From the last major series, the 2 Grameenphone cups, I'd like to believe that Zimbabwe's mainly a BATTING side. We have a good calibre of batsmen (those capable of averaging 35 - 40 runs per innings), problem is all these guns hardly fire at the same time, which is why our innings total runs have been considerably low (considering that we've had to bat first in 80% of the last 8 games vs Bangladesh.) Even when Charles Coventry made that majestic 194, we still failed to get over 320 which I think is rather pathetic. Even in the just finished series in Bangladesh, we've had to rely on 1 (at most 2) batsmen to make the runs, Brendan Taylor's 118 in the fifth ODI is yet another example of this scenario, the next best score in that innings was only 38 which is, again poor by any standards. This sort of cricket puts our bowlers under a lot of pressure when we take the field, and thus loses games.

I hope that the team may focus on keeping our wickets. I will be following the short tour of South Africa, hopefully the series won't be ruined by the rain, I know that we will give the Proteas a good run for their money,

Go ZIMBABWE