Match Thread - Kenya vs Zimbabwe, 1st ODI

[Train Driver]

Well, Dabengwa gets the breakthrough but i don't find much to cheer about the way he got it.

Has Mutizwa been injured or are we back to good old cric-misinfo again ?

'he mistimes his pull and top edges it and the keeper collects'

Varaiya c sub (T Mupariwa) b Dabengwa

Mupariwa the substitute keeper

[zimfan1]

rainsford finally gets kamande

[Train Driver]

Look what happens when you bring a front line bowler back on, 2 wickets in 4 balls for Rainsford ,

Mr Utseya, please note for future reference .......

[zimfan1]

rainsford gets two nice full pitched bowling to clean up the tail

[Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic)]

We'll still hammer Kenya, but the 100+ run win that I was hoping for looks in doubt.

We are on course of 100+ run win. Thanks to Zimbabwean Obama

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Well, Dabengwa gets the breakthrough but i don't find much to cheer about the way he got it.

Has Mutizwa been injured or are we back to good old cric-misinfo again ?

'he mistimes his pull and top edges it and the keeper collects'

Varaiya c sub (T Mupariwa) b Dabengwa

Mupariwa the substitute keeper

Mupariwa used to be a wicket keeper when he was younger. Which begs the question why isn't Taibu substitute keeper? Injured too?

[zimfan1]

all over price wraps it up even though he has been underpar today

109 run win good win but could of been better, some weird captaincy from utseya

[Train Driver]

Pricey strikes and finishes the game off, a great 109 run win but, yes ok it may sound ungrateful, nowhere near the size of victory that was there for the taking and, indeed, should have been taken.

Some really good individual performances, especially with the bat, which have led to a really good team victory.

Fingers crossed the players can not only keep this sort of form up during the series but actually exceed it.

I expect that a lot of people were expecting a Zimbabwean banana skin performance, i'm really glad that they will be disappointed, keep it up lads, no don't keep it up, improve on it and lets see a push towards 5-0.

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Yeah, some strange captaincy decisions but I suppose we should cut Utseya some slack. His captaincy in Bangladesh was very good tactically, and because there is no video of this match there might have been some other factors involved in his decisions.

The wicket keeping situation is very interesting though, hopefully there is some mention of it in the post match bulletin.

I'm happy with a 109 run, there are a lot of positives to take from this match, and not only in the bowling department which is nice I do hope that at some point in this series we see some centuries though, the batsmen have a lot to make up for

[BaijuSpeaks]

its really a fascinating win as its mainly becoz of batting..But i like Taibu to be back in the side next matxh itself instead of matskinyeri.If Sibanda is playing for Zimbabwe, then Taibu should also be.

Any wway hats off to the boys for this sizzling peformance