sloandog wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:30 pm
Jarvis showing why he's our best fast bowler
I did give you some inside info on the bats to look out for...
pariah wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:41 pm
Wow, even the batting will be quite ruthless. Ricardo, du Plooy, Hamza and Smuts to go with Bavuma and AB. Yoh! CSA didn't respect ZIM enough to give them Valli, Muthusamy and Christensen like ZIM A and BD, but Bavuma and AB make up for it. Still top bats.
Jarvis got those he should've gotten, but Mpofu got the first real bat.
Mind you this batting line up significantly weaker than the one ZIM A faced, and the one BD faced in their FC match.
ZIM batted first so AB might still play despite his lower back issue, but as things stand, only Bavuma is there as the one batsman of genuine class, and he's going at a run a ball.
The key is for ZIM bowlers to exclude Bavuma's tally and see how they go against the rest of the batsmen. Not sure if SA Inv XI will throw in 9/10 batsmen like ZIM did 😂 (I take it out ZCF friends who always cry for proper XI v XI C tour games will stop that henceforth 😂 ). Anyway if ZIM bowlers do well against those batsmen then they haven't totally embarrassed themselves.
I don't think SA Inv XI were fair to ZIM by throwing in a nightwatchman, but clearly the likes of Ricardo, du Plooy and Smuts will value their wickets. less than 200 runs from those 3 will be a failure.
My theory is and continues to be that ZIm can;t afford to have both Jarvis and Chatara in the XI, especially one that has Cremer in it. These guys are used to express pace and great swing bowlers so I doubt the ZIM seamers will be a big challenge unless conditions help. So I hope Cremer will be that one that proves me wrong and says "ZIM can afford to have a limping Chatara and Jarvis because I won't leak any but prove destructive".
There can be no underestimating the psychological effects of being bossed by semi-pros. I know Kriterion will hide behind the internal troubles, but that tour match hurt BD badly. They were bossed by "lesser" players including two 19 year olds and a bunch of 20-21 year olds. It will be the same for ZIM. To me this is already a very embarrassing performance.