Match Thread: Kenya v Zimbabwe, 2nd ODI

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Fingers crossed everyone, if Cremer gives away 3 runs or less in his next over his ODI economy drops into the 3.xx range

[zimfan1]

its so nice to be beating teams easily kind of makes you want to play more agsint the weaker teams

[maehara]

its so nice to be beating teams easily kind of makes you want to play more agsint the weaker teams

Well, it's useful in terms of telling the Big Boys that we really don't deserve to be dropped permanently to this level, and it gives the team a taste for winning. Wouldn't want to play Associates all the time, though.

[maehara]

What makes these two games especially sweet, though, is that a month ago, none of us would have confidently stood up and said that Zim would win these. We knew they could, but there's always that doubt that they'd just fall to pieces. Instead, they're performing. Nice.

[zimfan1]

creamer gets two

we cant get rid of him now

[maehara]

39.5 Dabengwa to Odhiambo, OUT, flighted on middle and he goes for a leg-side slog and misses and he is cleaned up on middle stump
N Odhiambo b Dabengwa 3 (9b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

Two more to go. Winning margin over 150 runs would be nice...

[Train Driver]

A good all round performance again, some will say, 'well, it's only Kenya', but you have to perform whether it's Kenya or Australia and the players have certainly performed in these two games.

I know it seems to be a spinners wicket rather than a seamers, but i would like to see Mupariwa come back on and bowl his remaining four overs. After such a good previous spell he has been out of touch since the start of the Bangladesh tour, he needs to turn his arm over and get some confidence wickets.

As i say that Dabengwa takes wicket number 8, so even less chance of seeing Mupariwa again

[Train Driver]

Almost forgot, well done to Elton Chigumbura, his wicket today was his 50th for Zim in ODI's

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Dabengwa just got smashed for 6 by their number 10, maybe Mupariwa will return.

[maehara]

Dabengwa just got smashed for 6 by their number 10, maybe Mupariwa will return.

Just smashed Price for one, too, so I wouldn't hold one against Dabengwa...