Story England's Tour of New Zealand and Zimbabwe

[m_vaughan]

England celebrate after the last Zimbabwe wicket falls

Zimbabwe Scorecard

Zimbabwe batting

Eng Bowling

 

[m_vaughan]

UPDATE:
England 45/1 (10 Overs)
M. Trescothick 21*(36)
A. Strauss 18*(23)

ENGLAND WIN BY 9 WICKETS

Despite losing Michael Vaughan early, England cruised to a 9 wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the 1st Nissan
One Day International. The match got over well before lunch, lasting just about 24 overs.
Tatenda Taibu made a big mistake in electing to bat first on a green wicket, but his players also let him down
by putting up a very poor batting performance.

Andrew Flintoff was named man of the match for his extraordinary bowling figures of 5/2, which included
4 wickets in successive deliveries.

England lead 3 match series 1-0.

Vaughan dismissed for a duck, C. Nkala B. Panyangara

Trescothick celebrates as England win comprehensively

England Scorecard

England Batting

Zimbabwe Bowling

 

[madmattg]

Looks like a true to form performance by the Zimbabwe team.

You cleaned their clock big time.

 

[m_vaughan]

You bet....someone forgot to tell Zimbabwe that there are 50 Overs per innings in an One Day international.

It was amazing, one of those times, when everything goes your way. Flintoff picking four wickets in 4 successive deliveries!!!, absolutely amazing!!!.

 

[m_vaughan]

ZIMBABWE vs ENGLAND
2nd One Day International
Nissan One Day Internationals
Bulawayo

Welcome to Bulawayo for the second one day international between Zimbabwe and England. You would
expect a better performance from Zimbabwe after being completely thrashed by England in the 1st ODI
at Harare.

Conditions: Overcast, Humid and a fair chance of rain

Pitch: Green wicket, very similar to the one at Harare, but more runs expected, despite overcast conditions.

The Toss: Taibu wins the toss for the second time and this time elects to field first.

The Teams: Both teams unchanged. England dont need to, but Zimbabwe clearly showing the lack of depth
in their squad.

Zimbabwe

England

 

[m_vaughan]

UPDATE:
Zimbabwe 66/2 (15 Overs)
B. Taylor 24*(52)
T. Taibu 10*(14)

England 328 all out (49.4 Overs)
M. Vaughan 117(131)
C. Read 56(44)

M. Nkala 4/56

ZIMBABWE NEED 263 RUNS TO WIN FROM 210 BALLS AT 7.51 RPO.

England got off to a bad start losing Trescothick early, after some pretty ordinary running between the wicket,
and a bad call from Michael Vaughan. Strauss came and went, scoring just 1. Vaughan then had Collingwood
run out after another bad call from the Yorkshireman. England at this stage were 39/3.
But then Vaughan and Bell put up a partnership of 96 runs, before Bell was caught by Ebrahim of the bowlng
of Matsikenyeri for 45. This was followed by 91 run partnership between Vaughan and Flintoff. Flintoff was
then dismissed for 47, thanks to a superb caught and bowled effort by Matsikenyeri.
Vaughan then reached his century and was eventually dismissed for 117 by Nkala. Chris Read played some big
shots towards the end, including three sixes, and England finished at 328 all out in 49.4 Overs. Keeping in
mind the nature of the wicket and overcast conditions, this is a fantastic performance by England.
Thisan Panyangara was very impressive for Zimbabwe, and the most economical of the all the Zimbabwe
bowlers. However it was Nkala who bagged 4 wickets, most of them towards the end of the innings.

Zimbabwe in their reply have lost Sibanda and Ebrahim, but have done a decent job in scoring 66/2 in 15
Overs. James Anderson has been the only wicket-taker for England so far.

Trescothick run out

Strauss dismissal, C. Sibanda B. Panyangara

Collingwood pull shot

Vaughan half century

Bell dismissal, C. Ebrahim B. Matsikenyeri

 

[m_vaughan]

Flintoff hits the first six of the match

Zimbabwe celebrate the dismissal of Andrew Flintoff

Vaughan century

Vaughan dismissal, C. Matsikenyeri B. Nkala

A standing ovation for Vaughan

 

[m_vaughan]

Read smashes Chigumbura out of the ground!

Read quick-fire half century

Blackwell dismissal, C. Matsikenyeri B. Hondo

Gough dismissal, C. Panyangara B. Nkala

Read dismissal, C. Panyangara B. Nkala

 

[m_vaughan]

Zimbabwe celebrate as England are bowled for 328 in 49.4 Overs.

England scorecard

England batting

England Manhattan

Zimbabwe Bowling

Vaughan Spider

 

[m_vaughan]

Read Spider

Sibanda dismissal, C. Vaughan B. Anderson

Ebrahim run out

Zim scorecard

Zim batting

Eng bowling

 

[tigerdes]

Awesome performance in the first one dayer. Flintoff muct have had a few shandies that night. And what a comeback by Zimbabwe in the second match of the series. You;d have thought the stuffing would have been knocked out of them by that 9 wicket defeat.

Also you can download the latest England one day kit from www.cricket2004.co.uk. Looking forward to the third match.

 

[m_vaughan]

I have downloaded the lastest one day kit [the new red front one] but it does not have bitmaps for all resolutions.

or maybe you are talking about the current england kit...which is almost same as the one in c2k4....but yeah i can download that one aswell and use it for the 3rd ODI.

Regarding first ODI...yeah it was pretty awesome....zimbabwe were completely outplayed, and flintoff was at his very best. also the wicket had a lot of grass on it, so helped the bowlers.

second match hasnt been great for zimbabwe though, so I dont think they'll be very pleased, but yeah even though they need to score at close to 7.5 an over from now on, if they dont lose wickets and increase their runrate simultaneously, then who knows?

 

[madmattg]

Sweet screens

 

[tigerdes]

I had that problem with the one day kit. I was using WinAce and I only got the 128 back. If you download winrar and use that you get the whole lot and it looks brilliant!!!!

 

[m_vaughan]

thanks matt..............regarding kits, I have colin's kitupdate installed in one of the gobs, and I have almost exported some of them as bitmaps, allowing me to transfer the kits from one GOB to another.

Will try though using that one day kit u mentioned....and I do have winrar.