***Official **** Pakistan in Zimbabwe

[Chubb]

Quality knock Tino.

 

[Athlai]

Mayonnaise carried his bat WAG, get that guy some McWings.

 

[Nigel Benjamin]

Mawoyo way to go! Now the attention turns to the unreliable Hafeez and the young new ball pair of Vitori and Jarvis. Hope Vitori finds some swing with the new ball and snaps a few early scalps. My only worry is Vitori only dominated the lefties against BD and there aren't too many in this PK side.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well played that man.

Over to the bowlers now.

 

[Nigel Benjamin]

Haha Mpofu. I'm pretty sure that's his first six in professional cricket. Well done son!

...and how many sixes has his brother Chris Martin smashed in his 100 odd test runs?

 

[Prince EWS]

Woo, big wicket. This is the sort of pitch I would've expected Taufeeq to really pile the runs on upon.

 

[Chubb]

Important Zim capitalise on the early wicket.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good start by Zim, early breakthrough was vital and they have it.

 

[Chubb]

I hope Vitori hasn't let his press get to him... bowling a bit like it at the moment.

EDIT TAYLOR YOU IDIOT... I can't talk about taking catches but you are the skipper of a test side!

 

[Prince EWS]

Hafeez in his customary role of looking like Mark Waugh on the way to 20 odd and then giving a chance. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe didn't take that chance...

 

[Daemon]

Why is ten sports showing WWE instead of the match :/

 

[Cevno]

Why is ten sports showing WWE instead of the match :/

Shifted it to Ten Cricket.

 

[Prince EWS]

Why is ten sports showing WWE instead of the match :/

Because Australia/Sri Lanka is finished for the day so they moved the game to Ten Cricket.

As such, everyone who is watching this game is watching the channel Australia v Sri Lanka was on. I hope that helps.

 

[Daemon]

Shifted it to Ten Cricket.

Because Australia/Sri Lanka is finished for the day so they moved the game to Ten Cricket.

As such, everyone who is watching this game is watching the channel Australia v Sri Lanka was on. I hope that helps.

Yeah that was it, thanks.

 

[Prince EWS]

This is where Meth would be handy. Just some disciplined line and length bowling with a bit of movement each way to get some discipline back into the attack that is definitely lacking at times with the young openers. I know he's injured but he wouldn't have been picked anyway; I reckon he'd offer a lot more to the Test attack than Mpofu.

 

[morgieb]

Mawoyo!

 

[Prince EWS]

Wow, big turn there.

 

[Nate]

That "Zimbabwe XI" isn't anything even resembling Zimbabwe's best team either; only Mawoyo out of this side playing in the Test against Bangladesh and he shouldn't have been there anyway.

yeahyeahyeah

Fantastic effort by the young man. So impressed.

 

[Prince EWS]

yeahyeahyeah

Fantastic effort by the young man. So impressed.

Forgot I'd made that post. Still don't reckon he'll last that long in the side but it was an awesome innings so full credit to him.

 

[Scaly piscine]

This is where Meth would be handy. Just some disciplined line and length bowling with a bit of movement each way to get some discipline back into the attack that is definitely lacking at times with the young openers. I know he's injured but he wouldn't have been picked anyway; I reckon he'd offer a lot more to the Test attack than Mpofu.

The difference in their first class records is huge, I'd have thought they'd be reasonably easy to compare too since it sounds as though they're both medium pace and both played for the Tuskers (Mpofu interestingly batted at 9 for them in the match Meth took 13 wickets in). Seems a complete no-brainer really.

Does Zimbabwe have a lot of politics or racial quotas in their team selections?