Match Thread - 1st ODI - Zimbabwe vs West Indies

[zimdan]

Weekday games wont see many people as they will have work, but the weekend game should see alot more.

School Children make up alot of the weekday crowd which is really nice to see.

are you in zimbabwe also?

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Nah I'm not, if I was I'd probably be at Harare Sports Club

Required RR 8.36

Run rate rising quickly now, Price and Utseya doing a stellar job. Thank God Ray Price returned!

[zimdan]

Argh our fielding sounds horrible!

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Argh our fielding sounds horrible!

This is our second dropped catch. And Chanderpaul too

32.2 Utseya to Chanderpaul, 1 run, dropped! Cuts it hard in the air behind the wicket, Sibanda drops it, that was a simple chance.

Sibanda is injured. Thigh injury apparantly.

[maehara]

Required rate of 9.85. If we can't win it from here, there's something wrong...

[zimdan]

its pretty much of a formality from here, just gotta stick guys on the boundries and hope for no sixes and the game is ours.

They cant win on singles now!

[maehara]

For some reason, WI seem happy to tick along at 5-6/over - without being able to see the match I can't tell if that's down to good bowling by our boys or lack of effort by their, but I'll take the win either way...

[brmtaylor.com admin]

its pretty much of a formality from here, just gotta stick guys on the boundries and hope for no sixes and the game is ours.

They cant win on singles now!

Yep. Chigumbura and Brent can get through 6 overs together, leaving Chibhabha, and maybe a few from Masakadza (who has 1/4!)

[brmtaylor.com admin]

For some reason, WI seem happy to tick along at 5-6/over - without being able to see the match I can't tell if that's down to good bowling by our boys or lack of effort by their, but I'll take the win either way...

Yeah, pretty strange huh? From Cricinfo, it looks like they are happy to just bat out the game

[zimdan]

I dont care either way, a win is more points for the ICC ODI table and alot of points lost for WI.

A win is a win even if WI arent trying which i doubt however.

I would just put it down to good bowling from price and utseya.