Australia A tour of Zimbabwe

[angryangy]

Jason Gillespie will assist Troy Cooley as coach. His coaching experience has mostly been in Zimbabwe, so he will be able to provide a bit of local knowledge.

29 June 2011 Zimbabwe XI v Australia A 
Harare Sports Club
30 June 2011 Australia A v South Africa A 
Harare Sports Club
02 July 2011 Zimbabwe XI v South Africa A 
Harare Sports Club
03 July 2011 Zimbabwe XI v Australia A 
Harare Sports Club
05 July 2011 Australia A v South Africa A 
Harare Sports Club
06 July 2011 Zimbabwe XI v South Africa A 
Harare Sports Club
08 July 2011 - Final TBC v TBC 
Harare Sports Club

11-12 July 2011 - 2-day Tour match TBC v Australia A 
Country Club (Zimbabwe Cricket Academy)

15-18 July 2011 - 4-day match Australia A v Zimbabwe XI 
Kwekwe Sports Club	
21-24 July 2011 - 4-day match Australia A v Zimbabwe XI 
Harare Sports Club

 

[CremerCurrans]

32 man training squad:

1. Butt, Sikander Raza
2. Chakabva, Regis
3. Chatara, Tendai
4. Chibhabha, Chamunorwa
5. Chifamba, Maxwell
6. Chigumbura, Elton
7. Chinouya, Mike
8. Coventry, Charles
9. Cremer, Graeme*
10. Duffin, Terrence
11. Enwerem, Tochi
12. Ervine, Craig
13. Jarvis, Kyle
14. Lamb, Gregory*
15. Manatsa, Lovemore
16. Masakadza, Hamilton
17. Masakadza, Shingirai
18. Mawoyo, Tinotenda
19. Meth, Keegan
20. Mpofu, Christopher
21. Mushangwe, Natsayi*
22. Mutizwa, Forster
23. Ncube, Njabulo
24. Nicolson, Ian
25. Panyangara, Tinashe
26. Price, Raymond*
27. Rainsford, Edward
28. Sibanda, Vusimuzi
29. Taibu, Tatenda
30. Taylor, Brendan
31. Utseya, Prosper*
32. Brian Vitori

Bold, talented seamers
* Spinners

Their strength is defiantly bowling, with quite a few talented spinners & seamers.
Batting will be a problem, Taylor, Ervine, H Masakadza & Taibu will have to score alot of the runs.

Kyle Jarvis back from a stress fracture. He didn't take part in the last domestic season, so it will be interesting to see how he goes.

 

[CremerCurrans]

I don't know anything about Tochi Enwerem or Lovemore Manatsa, they arn't listed on cricinfo. The coaching staff must have found them, during another talent hunt around the country.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

A bit odd that Wade wasn't already in the squad i must say. Selectors rate Paine to highly, Wade should be right on his tale as who should be back-up to Haddin.

I haven't seen Wade keep. I've only seen him bat in the IPL which is no way to judge (though he does look like spin is a mystery to him). I just want a really good keeper for the Aussies. Our bowling attack needs a confident catcher as they don't make many chances happen now and any spin bowler needs someone who can complete stumpings, which Haddin is bloody awful at, in fact he's very ordinary against spin full stop. Even Gilly after all this time is better and he was never great behind the stumps.

Batting is useful, unfortunately with our fragile top 6, it is far more important than it should be. I would think that Wade has Paine covered in that department, but having seen Paine keep, he looks very neat as long as he keeps his head.

 

[Anku31]

Zimbabwe will be looking to develop a few good fast bowlers in this series because they can't win test matches by spinners only.It will be interesting to check out Nicolson,Jarvis,S.Masakadza,etc.
I hope Anthony Ireland comes back & plays for them again.He has been doing well in county circuit.

 

[aussie1st]

I haven't seen Wade keep. I've only seen him bat in the IPL which is no way to judge (though he does look like spin is a mystery to him). I just want a really good keeper for the Aussies. Our bowling attack needs a confident catcher as they don't make many chances happen now and any spin bowler needs someone who can complete stumpings, which Haddin is bloody awful at, in fact he's very ordinary against spin full stop. Even Gilly after all this time is better and he was never great behind the stumps.

From what I've read he is a bit suspect behind the stumps but like Gilly he seems to take a bunch of catches.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Graeme Cremer is injured and won't be playing the one day matches. That's a blow for Zim.

 

[sifter132]

^A BODYBLOW in fact *channelling Ravi Shastri*.

Looking forward to these matches as there are a few very interesting aspects of Aussie cricket that will get examined:
*Paine as a captain (and as a keeper/batsman too...)
*Beer and Krejza and O'Keefe - can they do something?
*Hughes v Khawaja - If Hughes tanks, then maybe Usman can steal the opening spot for the SL tour
*Dave Warner - how will he control himself in the longer matches
*The pace bowlers in general - Hilfenhaus and Siddle have a chance to impess, Copeland and Starc get their shot and Luke Butterworth will sneak under the radar.

We'll see what happens...

 

[aussie1st]

Will be good seeing how Starc goes, Warner showed he can play the longer format when he got his chance. Sadly not much to look forward to with O'Keefe since hes been picked in his worse format unless he does extremely well and starts shooting for an ODI shirt.

 

[angryangy]

^A BODYBLOW in fact *channelling Ravi Shastri*.

Zimbabwe have been hit like a tracer bullet!

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Zimbabwe have been hit like a tracer bullet!

Sounds like an interesting match. 8/232 is middling and the Aussies are going to have to bowl well.

There's no Copeland, but they've filled the team with all-rounders so they've four seamers and two spin bowlers.

 

[CremerCurrans]

The battle of the spinners O'Keefe vs Lyon. We should get a good indication of how good Lyon is during this tour.

Zimbabwe should chase this down, as long as Taylor & Ervine don't both fail. It's good to have Hamilton Masakadza back, they really missed him during the world cup. He forms a solid opening partnership with Taylor. He also bowled a good five overs.

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Sibanda's opening the batting with Taylor, I guess that's where he's had most of his success.

 

[angryangy]

What we saw last year with the Zimbabwean winter tri-series is that basically the team batting second always batted way better. Hopefully this series is less awful.

 

[Chewie]

Lyon did pretty well there, with four wickets. And they weren't tailenders too (well apart from Meth). Zimbabwe really collapsed there though.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Lyon did pretty well there, with four wickets. And they weren't tailenders too (well apart from Meth). Zimbabwe really collapsed there though.

7 wickets for around 46 runs or something like that?

I wish I could have seen Nathan Lyon bowl. He must have been doing something to be getting them out bowled. John Hastings must have been spot on with the lines and length. His first few overs went for stuff all.