*Official* Bangladesh in Zimbabwe

[Hurricane]

Real shame this isn't a 3 match series. For NZ and Pak, 1 test for Zim by all means but they can compete with Bangladesh.

Yes agreed - Travelling all that way for one test...seems a shame.

 

[Hurricane]

Zimbos 55/0

 

[TT Boy]

Just noticed this is Mohammad Ashraful’s 56 test match! When will the penny finally drop?

 

[Xuhaib]

Zim middle order looks scarily good for a minnow reckon 400+ is coming up.

 

[Flem274*]

If Keagan Meth is as good in real life as he is in ICC, he should be playing.

Where's Sean Williams?

 

[Flem274*]

Vusi Sibanda 22*. If you believe Cribb, he's better than Sehwag!

 

[Prince EWS]

If Keagan Meth is as good in real life as he is in ICC, he should be playing.

Where's Sean Williams?

Williams has left Zimbabwe cricket; he's in South Africa I believe. I think TT Boy even said he was playing semi-pro hockey or something there.

 

[Flem274*]

Williams has left Zimbabwe cricket; he's in South Africa I believe. I think TT Boy even said he was playing semi-pro hockey or something there.

That's a shame. He was quality.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good start by Zim. Looks like it all on Shakib as usual for Bangladesh.

 

[Prince EWS]

Vusi Sibanda 22*. If you believe Cribb, he's better than Sehwag!

He's looked superb today. Awesome to be able to watch him play First Class cricket again.

 

[Chubb]

He's looked superb today. Awesome to be able to watch him play First Class cricket again.

Hasn't it been wonderful to see him blossom as the player you and I knew he could be?

 

[Prince EWS]

Vusi has paced this innings so well, and that's such a great sign as it's always been his main (only?) problem. Just needs to keep it up now.

 

[TT Boy]

Williams has left Zimbabwe cricket; he's in South Africa I believe. I think TT Boy even said he was playing semi-pro hockey or something there.

Yeah. Williams old man lives there, he use to coach the Zim national hockey team and Sean's stepmom actually was a member of the Zim hockey team which won Olympic gold in Moscow 1980. So fair to say hockey runs through Williams blood but apparently he only went as he wasn’t being paid.

100 up for Zim!

 

[TT Boy]

Tino's out. Looks like he chucked away but that's 40 more runs than most expected him to score. Platform has been set, best batsman at the crease now.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah. Williams old man lives there, he use to coach the Zim national hockey team and Sean's stepmom actually was a member of the Zim hockey team which won Olympic gold in Moscow 1980. So fair to say hockey runs through Williams blood but apparently he only went as he wasn’t being paid.

100 up for Zim!

Yeah the domestic system is apparently working really well and the franchises are paying their players but the centrally contracted players are owed heaps and haven't been paid for months.

Anyway, Tino throws it away. Was inevitable but still oh so dire.

 

[NUFAN]

Forgot this was on! Great start from Zim.

Anything noteworthy from the first sesh?

 

[lockton2skipper]

why no keegan meth ???

 

[NUFAN]

Not good enough.

Vusi Sibanda is only the 40th Zimbabwean to make 100 career runs. Sibanda has passed the likes of Hondo, Maregwede, Huckle and Crocker in this innings so far.

EDIT - Sibanda dropped at second slip. Should have been taken, wasn't a sitter though.

 

[CricAddict]

Irrespective of how the test match pans out, credit to the Zimbabweans for not being overawed and playing so well in the first session after 6 years in the wilderness.
Always for Underdogs [If its not India playing]
Go Zimbabwe!!!

 

[Athlai]

Bowl Marmadoolah FFS. Bangers have such a toothless pace attack.

Shafiul looks a bit like he could do something though.