Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe 2008-09
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It was a good bowling display from Zimbabwe after putting Sri Lanka into bat. Their bowlers struck to the task and troubled the Sri Lankan batsman, with only Kandamby ofering some resistence. Rainsford was the pick of the bowlers by picking up 3 wickets. The pitch has favoured spinners and it will be interesting to see how the Zimbabweans will cope up with the spinning duo of Sri Lanka.
shubhrayu
International Coach
Really aweful batting by Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka claim the series 5-0, but the series was not as one-sided as the scoreline suggests. Zimbabwe were completely outplayed in the first two games, but failed to build on a winning position of 134 for 1 in the third, where they fell short by just five runs. They gave the visitors a run for their money in the fourth game as well, losing by just two wickets. They looked down and out at 58 for 6, but Utseya and Dabengwa added 72 for the seventh wicket to take Zimbabwe within 23 runs of victory. Kulasekara, though, struck back with two quick wickets against the run of play to snatch the game from the hosts.
Zimbabwe will be ruing not being able to finish off games after getting into a winning position. They lost their last four wickets for three runs.
Zimbabwe will be ruing not being able to finish off games after getting into a winning position. They lost their last four wickets for three runs.
I wish Zimbabwe pulled off a win.
Typical of Murili though. He's a pretty over-rated bowler. Such a large proportion of his wickets are against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, it's a joke. He's got so many wickets this series he'll be on the top ODI wicket taker list after having an average year and probably have the best stats solely from this series.
What's with Zimbabwe getting to play 5 ODIs? They're a bad side and don't deserve such a big series until they can prove they can compete.
Typical of Murili though. He's a pretty over-rated bowler. Such a large proportion of his wickets are against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, it's a joke. He's got so many wickets this series he'll be on the top ODI wicket taker list after having an average year and probably have the best stats solely from this series.
What's with Zimbabwe getting to play 5 ODIs? They're a bad side and don't deserve such a big series until they can prove they can compete.
Very interesting set of statements, because without Muralitharan, it could have very well been 3-2 to Sri Lanka rather than 5-0.
Did a bit of statsguru browsing. Only including Test nations whilst excluding Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, Muralitharan has 382 ODI wickets at 25.24 with an economy of 3.99 - still a top effort. It becomes evident though, that he has been on the download slope since 2004 with 2007 being the anomaly.
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Sorry, but Murali is still a top, top class bowler, whether he's got alot of wickets against minnows or not. He still has 371 ODi wickets at 25 against the Test nations (excluding Bangladesh and Zimbabwe), and 593 Test wickets at 23.99 at a strike rate of 57. It's not so typical of Murali, your dislike for him is completely ludicrous. He's not a chucker, and he's a top class bowler. He had an average year last year in Tests, but other than that he's been as good as ever.
age of the fall
International Cricketer
Nice Cricinfo Copy and paste
anyway. I enjoy the Sri lankan side and its good to see then pull off 5-0 although there batting was a bit worrying
are you kidding me?
1st of they competed more then we thought or imagined they would.
2nd how are they gona improve and prove they can compete if they dont get to play? because they got to play 5 matches we got to see some very fighting Zim on the last 3 matches. if it was a 2 ODI serise then we wouldnt have seen that.
Dare
Chairman of Selectors
Nice Cricinfo Copy and paste
anyway. I enjoy the Sri lankan side and its good to see then pull off 5-0 although there batting was a bit worrying
I was disapointed that they didn't include Chamara Silva in these ODIs. After having a good 2007 he hasn't been included in almost any in 2008.
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