***Official*** Bangladesh in Zimbabwe

[Jungle Jumbo]

They did without any contribution from their awesome captain Shakib who has been a little off-colour of late

Smashing a hundred off 60-odd balls two games ago not good enough for you?

 

[TT Boy]

Just watching the highlights and the two sides don't seem to like each other much. Ray Price, usually a pretty reserved character was given every Bangladeshi batsman a send off and the Bangla Boys were going positively apoplectic everytime a Zimbo departed. Ashraful's celebration after Hamilton hit him straight down mid-on's throat was truly bizarre.

Fantastic knock from Coventry (dead ringer for Vettori), very powerful, bottom handed batsman. Nothing of him but he is a very clean striker of the ball.

Brendan Taylor looked a bit podgy though. Laughable attempt at playing the spinners, was LBW three times in the space of five balls. If the wicket in the 5th game is anything like this, he should open, poor footwork and all.

 

[TT Boy]

Only because of the role they're using him in, really. He's a batsman who bowls some ocassional offies, and he's not what you'd call a big hitter, especially early in his innings. Instead they're using him as a bowling allrounder to bowl 5+ overs and hit big late in the innings.

I think he should be playing Afghanistan ATM, batting at about 5 and not bowling.

Campbell, who is combining picking the team with commentary wasn't impressed. Looks like he and Mupariwa will be shown the door.

 

[Prince EWS]

Campbell, who is combining picking the team with commentary wasn't impressed. Looks like he and Mupariwa will be shown the door.

Yeah it's been good having Campbell on commentary so much; gives you a real incite as to what the selectors are looking for and the rationale behind the selections.

Waller should indeed be given the axe but it's frankly not his fault they picked a slow-starting specialist batsman to bat 8 in one day cricket and bowl a full allotment (or close to) of overs. I think he'll be back in the team soon enough as a middle order batsman but he'll gain a lot more playing the Intercontinental Cup as just that than playing ODIs on roads as an off spinner.

Mupariwa's a funny case though - he finds himself dropped so often merely because of how terrible his bowling looks when it's not effective. The fact of the matter is, he's taken 55 ODI wickets at 26. Everyone's been waiting for the bubble to burst for a while and the selectors have been trying to pre-empt it, but I don't think a couple of games getting slogged should see someone with that record go, even if he does look like one of the most pie-chucking opening bowlers in international cricket history when he's not running through teams.

I'd rather Matsikenyeri go (and to be fair, Campbell ripped into him heaps for not rotating the strike, too) but on performances this series, you'd have to just axe Waller for Rainsford. Rainsford tends to bowl a lot better first change so I'd get him on then after the regular serving of fluky pies from Elton and Mupariwa.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

194no and still on the losing side? ouch!

 

[Aritro]

Well it's good that there's at least one silver lining to what has otherwise been the most one-eyed, amatuerish, god-awful commentating ever broadcast

If you could somehow keep the crowd noise without the commentary I'd put them all on mute

 

[Trigger_Tiger]

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Well it's good that there's at least one silver lining to what has otherwise been the most one-eyed, amatuerish, god-awful commentating ever broadcast

If you could somehow keep the crowd noise without the commentary I'd put them all on mute

I was watching the game online and I hd the game open on two different channels due to some ****ty buffering at times. And on one channel there was the commentry goin on, while on the other, there was none. I chose the latter of course!

It was a good game. Appaling fielding from the Bangla boys, some poor decisions by Shakib on the field but the batsmen just owned the field today! Good knocks from both Coventry and Tamim!

 

[Trigger_Tiger]

I also found it hard to believe how 3 lbw shouts, all pitched in line and going on to hit the stumps were turned down by the two umpires when the benefit of the doubts were always given to Zim in both the innings. Shocker that!

 

[Pigeon]

Well it's good that there's at least one silver lining to what has otherwise been the most one-eyed, amatuerish, god-awful commentating ever broadcast

If you could somehow keep the crowd noise without the commentary I'd put them all on mute

Haha, for 90% of the match in the channel I watched, there was no commentary. Just crowd and player noises. I must say I found it interesting, and somehow made it more involving.

 

[TT Boy]

Crowds have been surprisingly pretty decent. Lots of (private) school kids in as well.

Stadia is desperate though. Looks like Queens hasn't had a lick of paint since Ian Smith days.

 

[Craig]

Well played Charles Coventry, that was one hell of an effort.

 

[Aritro]

Crowds have been surprisingly pretty decent. Lots of (private) school kids in as well.

Stadia is desperate though. Looks like Queens hasn't had a lick of paint since Ian Smith days.

Does the game still not have much of a following outside private schools?

 

[TT Boy]

Does the game still not have much of a following outside private schools?

No expect on Zimbabwean cricket (Prince or Chubb?) but it seems like the vast majority of their African black cricketers come from the private school system. Akin to South Africa, where practically all of its black/coloured cricketers come from the traditionally white fee paying schools.

 

[stumpski]

Fantastic knock from Coventry (dead ringer for Vettori),

Think he looks more like the bloke in those pear cider ads myself - who himself seems to be a poor David Baddiel impersonator.


And talking of which, how much does the Plymouth Argyle fan in the Aviva ad look like a Paul Whitehouse character from the Fast Show?

 

[TT Boy]

Thought it was him. Best advert on TV, that or the donner kebab one.

 

[stumpski]

It could be, y'know. I'll have to see it again now (don't suppose I'll have to wait long).


"Green arrr-my!"

 

[TT Boy]

"Money I saved, we could have bought Dick Mar Van Nostril Boy."

 

[Chubb]

No expect on Zimbabwean cricket (Prince or Chubb?) but it seems like the vast majority of their African black cricketers come from the private school system. Akin to South Africa, where practically all of its black/coloured cricketers come from the traditionally white fee paying schools.

That's because talented cricketers get scholarships to those schools. Taibu, Matsi, Masakadza and Sibanda for example come from poor backgrounds but got into a private school because of their talent. Some black cricketers come from middle-class backgrounds though, like Trevor Madondo.

 

[TT Boy]

Same in South Africa then (Parnell, Ntini...).

 

[Gowza]

more injuries for the BD bowling line-up. alam and enamul are apparently injured so we'll probably see dollar and mehrab in the XI.