2022 U19 World Cup Thread

[Googly]

This is a massacre. I wonder what the lowest total ever is?

[Kriterion_BD]

Top order is a real problem.

Its this sort of 4th game performance that negates the 3-0 series lead and causes one to feel the gap between ZIM and Ireland is virtually non-existent.

[Googly]

I'd go a step further. This was the first game they played on something that resembled a cricket pitch. Shocking display.
Can anybody just play in the V?

[Googly]

Mitchell and Dube saving us from real embarrassment here.
Really well played lads.

[secretzimbo]

Well that was shit! Batting needs sorting out.

It's frustrating because some of these lads are/were really good batting prospects. Either they have all just hit rough form at the same time, or the lack of cricket for two years is really harming them. What has happened to Bawa in particular?!?! Was absolute dynamite pre-Covid. A better prospect than any of Wes, Marumani, Shumba and dare I say even Myers. He's got it in him. Hopefully he and the others can find some form very quickly. I guess if we are gonna have a bad run and a blow-out like today, then now is the time to do it, before the tournament.

Dube and Mitchell saving face for us at the end - well done boys.

Frustrating - these boys are better than that today. The complete lack of cricket for two years is showing. The positive is the bowlers - we have several who look really sharp. Yeah Ireland are shit but it looks like we've been bowling mostly good line and length, some good actions from the (few) seamers and the spinners look the business too. If any of the bats can find an ounce of form, then hopefully today doesn't happen again.

[secretzimbo]

Where's Rajkumar? He fucking loves it when we lose normally!

[secretzimbo]

Top order is a real problem.

Its this sort of 4th game performance that negates the 3-0 series lead and causes one to feel the gap between ZIM and Ireland is virtually non-existent.

No. Outclassed them three times and they've outclassed us once.

That's like saying if England win the next Test that 'negates the 3-0 series lead' Trying going into a bar in Sydney and telling some Aussies that. Good luck with that one Let us know if you make it out with your jaw intact brudda.

[BostonZimbo]

Conor Mitchell is absolute class. Brian Bennet as well has shown form in these games. Any idea if either one or both of them want to stay and play for Zim?

[Tinah09]

Seems our U19 top order batting is just as terrible as our senior teams. How long can they expect the middle order to bail them out? Its about time the opening pair learn to to build an innings and establishing a partnerships, the tail is consistently scoring more than them, which shouldn't be acceptable. What happened to Bawa? he took the world by storm last tournament as a 16 year old, He is one of the only 3 Zimbabweans to score a century at an U19 World Cup (others are M Lake and B Taylor[2]). That LBW was terrible, its like he was facing a 150 km/h in-swinging yorker. How does Bawa move to England as a young exciting prospect to play club/academy cricket? and return incapable of the basic fundamentals? what do they teach batsmen in England? could this perhaps explain the downward trend in the quality of English batsmen? This is supposed to be Bawa's tournament to shine, he has the talent and experience (from last WC), how has the failed consecutively four times to build an innings. yeah its a warm-up match, but the defining characteristic of a great/potentially great batsman is to treat every innings as a match-winning innings!! ZC has to pull out all stops to tie down the Bennet brothers, Mitchell, Chirwa (great left arm spin and great batting technique), and the chubby Matanyika. So far they have shown us that they mean business. Zim seems to be good at churning out spin-bowling all-rounders, we should probably model our game around this until a seam bowling-allrounder emerges from somewhere. In the seam department M Dube has good physique and bowling action but he needs some serious mentoring, a stint at whatever SA academy produced Marco Jansen will do him (and Zimbabwe) a lot of good. The future is bright, if all our cricket teams from U19s to senior to franchises can produce good top-order batsmen who are comfortable facing the new ball and fresh bowlers

[Tinah09]

Top order is a real problem.

Dave Houghton needs to sort this out asap, franchise cricket teams and national teams are all devoid fo confident, stroke-playing, stubborn opening batsmen who can last for 10 overs or more in limited overs cricket.

I thought with this obvious opening vacancy, the once-forum-darlings Moor and Musakanda would have remodelled their game and transitioned into opening batsmen. But alas they are still "hiding" in the middle order, which they were kept out of (at national team level) by Taylor, Willo, Raza and will continue to be kept out of by Wesley, Shumba and Myers/current U19 middle-order