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Well it was a disappointing finish of the tour, that said though, I think we should focus on the work at hand. Results wise, I think we did well given our position, but winning is the only way we can show the world that we are hitting positive notes and that can only be done by playing more games and that responsibility lies on the cricket world, teams like the Black Caps (New Zealand) should not be allowed to continue to sabotage tours to our country for invalid reasons!

Bowling throughout the tour was superb, we managed to defend very low scores - something very commendable. Batting on the other hand fell short of any standard (with the exception of the 1st ODI), and to produce any results in the game both bat and ball are required. I hope that the country can be able to craft genuine swing and pacemen (something we cannot do without when we regain test status) - I believe that this will greatly improve improve our batting (which has been suspect to very fast bowling in recent games [short tour of SA, West Indies tour...]) and ultimately our game.

That said, I would like to congratulate our boys - we are and will always be proud of you! Let's keep up the FAITH and continue to work hard, we are getting there one small step at a time...

clikcspeed wrote:Well it was a disappointing finish of the tour, that said though, I think we should focus on the work at hand. Results wise, I think we did well given our position, but winning is the only way we can show the world that we are hitting positive notes and that can only be done by playing more games and that responsibility lies on the cricket world, teams like the Black Caps (New Zealand) should not be allowed to continue to sabotage tours to our country for invalid reasons!

Bowling throughout the tour was superb, we managed to defend very low scores - something very commendable. Batting on the other hand fell short of any standard (with the exception of the 1st ODI), and to produce any results in the game both bat and ball are required. I hope that the country can be able to craft genuine swing and pacemen (something we cannot do without when we regain test status) - I believe that this will greatly improve improve our batting (which has been suspect to very fast bowling in recent games [short tour of SA, West Indies tour...]) and ultimately our game.

That said, I would like to congratulate our boys - we are and will always be proud of you! Let's keep up the FAITH and continue to work hard, we are getting there one small step at a time...

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In the end I think myself and many others on this forum predicted a 4-1 series win to the West Indies so we cant be too disappointed with the overall result.

What was disappointing was that the batting consistently failed, similar to the series in Bangladesh. A year ago our batting was looking like a strength but we seemed to have gopne backwards. Sean Williams is injured, while Brendan Taylor and Tatenda Taibu seem inconsistent. Our batting in Bangladesh relied mostly on Masakadza and unfortunately he failed to fire in the West Indies.

My question is who picks the starting line up, we should have learned from WI, as soon as our batsmen failed to fire after the 3rd ODI just to be lenient they should have been replaced, when you are building a new team, you chop and change till you get a consistent team, nobody justifies being in the team all the time. Anyway, the new coach has seen who to drop already, just like everybody in this forum.