[MATCH THREAD] 2nd Test Afghanistan v Zimbabwe @Abu Dhabi

[sloandog]

Love the exchange between Sean and the keeper. Hope Sean shuts him up.

Shit... Sean almost gone there. Perhaps the keeper is getting to him

In fairness the keeper was only giving some friendly advise, nothing personal and Sean had a smirk.
I hate it when the umpires get involved unnecessarily like that.

[zimfan1]

Tari finally has a start in test match cricket, needs to make the most of his opportunity. Ervine and BT will be knocking on the door for the Pakistan series.

[zimbos_05]

Love the exchange between Sean and the keeper. Hope Sean shuts him up.

Shit... Sean almost gone there. Perhaps the keeper is getting to him

Afghanis love to talk, but they hate when they get it back. I used to hate seeing it from their old wk because he used to talk this big game, but he wasn't anything special. So I have nothing with Sean giving some back, just as long as he does not lose his head.

[Zimco]

The openers did well to get a 100 runs. But on an individual level they should be disappointed about when they got out, not many better pitches for an opener to fill their boots

[zimlover]

Not a bad score considering we have often found ourselves in worse circumstances, I expect these two to score quickly and be about 300 at tea with no loss of wicket we would be on track to draw the game.

I expect this to start turning late on day 4, so if we are at least 450 -500 by day 4 tea.

We need runs from our middle order

[zimbot]

Love the exchange between Sean and the keeper. Hope Sean shuts him up.

Shit... Sean almost gone there. Perhaps the keeper is getting to him

In fairness the keeper was only giving some friendly advise, nothing personal and Sean had a smirk.
I hate it when the umpires get involved unnecessarily like that.

Agreed. For me personally I like it when players get verbal like this as long as they don't get personal. It makes for an interesting contest.

Love the exchange between Sean and the keeper. Hope Sean shuts him up.

Shit... Sean almost gone there. Perhaps the keeper is getting to him

So I have nothing with Sean giving some back, just as long as he does not lose his head.

Yep.

Tari finally has a start in test match cricket, needs to make the most of his opportunity. Ervine and BT will be knocking on the door for the Pakistan series.

He looks very organised. I haven't seen a lot of him but he has looked very composed so far.

[zimbot]

Crap...

[CrimsonAvenger]

NOOO!

[Jemisi]

That is very bad

[Mr Twig]

He lost his head