[Match Thread] Zimbabwe v Kenya - 2nd ODI

[maehara]

13 October 2009, Harare Sports Club
(assuming they don't kick them out in favour of the 6th Youth ODI, which is also scheduled for HSC tomorrow... )

Zim lead series 1-0 - hopefully the boys are on a roll!

[tawac]

So Jarvis had a great debut and the 3 spinners combination did great drying up the runs and taking 5 wickets. Is this really our winning combination? Surposing, things dont really go our way and a team really goes after these spinners do we have a back up plan. Hamilton Masakadza has great potential to become a "Jacques Kallis" for the side. Offering that much needed 3rd seam option. Perhaps he should work a bit more on his slow/medium pacers. If he just gets the line right than our the team would really be set.

[Sir Mupariwa]

i dont think 3 spinners and two pace bowlers is a good combination, its just that we played a weak Kenya attack i dont think we can do that against Bangladesh or any other team that doesn't struggle against spin. Chigs gets the wickets and can be expensive, Jarvis bowled well yesterday but its still too early to conclude about his capabilities given the weakness of the opposition and the total that they were chasing. i feel we need two spinners and two specialist seamers Chiga and Hamilton will share the other 10 overs

[Train Driver]

Looks like a complete repeat of yesterday then, we win the toss and bat first with an unchanged XI, we'll see whether cricinfo stay with that or change it later though

I agree with you Sir Mupariwa, only having 2 seamers in the side is asking for trouble unless you are very sure of the wicket and know that you can control the batsmen, Bangladesh will be a different proposition to Kenya i'm sure.

[Sir Mupariwa]

I think there will be one or two changes, we just have to wait and see

[tawac]

A bit of a mixed start I think 42/0 after 10.1 over. Masakadza 35 from 41balls Vermuelen 7 from 20 balls. Vermuelen needs to increase the gas in his innings.

[andy24]

yes agree, we need to get the run rate in the 5s.
vermulens just lagging a bit

[Train Driver]

A subdued start all round this morning, Masakadza has 37 from 44 balls so far but take out the boundaries and he has 7 from 37.

No complaints from me though, 46-0 from 11 is a good springboard for another decent 50 over total.

[zimfan1]

Vermelens just hit four boundries in the over and the run rate has lept to over 5 im sensing another 300 plus total

[andy24]

good partnership going here. Vermulens hit out these last couple of overs