Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan 1st T20 International

[chetanpatel1981]

Lots of love and best wishes from India for Zimbabwe cricket team for all comming matche.

Happy with Zim"s performance in Test series against Afghanistan.

Lets cross our finger for Zimbabwe victory in upcoming T20 against Afghanistan.

We must have to include Tari, madhvere, kumunhukwe and zumba(if possible). This guys are future Star without doubt

[Kriterion_BD]

Who is Zumba?

[sloandog]

I'm calling it, we will lose 3-0

[jaybro]

This is definitely a hard task for Zimbabwe in the t20 series, they've only beaten Afghanistan in one t20 ever!!!

Hopefully we see Kamunhukamwe & Shumba (Zumba) I actually wouldn't mind seeing them open, with Chamu & BT not on tour I think they're the likely pairing, I doubt we'd see Prince or Kasuza in this series. I saw Zimfan1 suggest Raza should open in this series, I don't mind that idea, Raza has never found his feet in t20I matches playing in the middle, his one score of 50+ came as an opener against Afghanistan in 2016.

Kamunhukamwe
Raza
Tari
Williams
Madhevere
Burl
Shumba
Mutumbami
Mavuta
Blessing
Ngarava

[Mr Twig]

I'm pretty sure Faraz will get another opportunity.

I assume Sean will captain in the absence of Chamu although I'd like to see Raza captain the 3 games.

A shame we are going to play a heap of T20 leading into the T20 World Cup in India that we're not in

[Jemisi]

I'm calling it, we will lose 3-0

Yeah, if we pull one back we'll have surpassed expectations

[zimbos_05]

I think we tend to score between 120-145 as our max. We don't really get much more than that it seems. Which is sad considering how much white ball cricket we play.

We really need to step up.

[jaybro]

I think we tend to score between 120-145 as our max. We don't really get much more than that it seems. Which is sad considering how much white ball cricket we play.

We really need to step up.

Zimbabwe doesn't play much t20 cricket, and I doubt there is any other nation that plays less domestic t20 cricket! Zim are actually an exception to the rule amongst smaller less affluent nations, most smaller nations like Afghanistan, Nepal etc play loads of t20 cricket because it's obviously cheaper to host such tournaments.

Although t20 is my least favourite format, I have always said Zim to play more domestic and international t20 cricket to develop the skill-sets of the players for this format. This will have a knock on effect and help Zim in ODI cricket especially, Zimbabwe are the worst 41-50 over side in the world I reckon, death bowling is poor and the batsman struggle with their 'range hitting'. More t20 cricket will help them improve at this facet of the game imo.

[CrimsonAvenger]

Time for ZC to swallow their pride and announce Sean as skipper across formats and give him a decent run. He is anyway the de facto skipper.

I like that XI of jaybro, probably just one change - Wellington instead of Mavuta (I'm just scared of how erratic Mavuta can be)

[sam_ahm]

Is Chibhabha still the captain for white ball formats?