Zimbabwe vs Pakistan | 1st LOI | 24 November 2024

Williams got away with a no ball as well. Strange that Pakistan struggle against spin.

Got the 20 overs in as well. God bless Pakistan, only side that can match our collapses.

Not getting back on here. How did we manage to win this one? Credit to Blessing, that was a top opening spell, not seen him bowl one like that for a while.

tawac wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 12:50 pm

Zimbabwe ahead on DLS but an afternoon shower in byo will pass on quickly.

Nah, this game is done. Chucking it down and very gloomy. Light will be an issue even if it stops.

This will be a huge win for Zimbabwe. Very happy with the way the bowlers have bowled. Zimbabwe needs to wrap Muzarabani and Ngarava in cotton wool to ensure they don't get injured because the bench is no where close to what these two are capable of.

Raza is quite superb, I wish he can maintain his fitness because he is 2 players in one and will be a huge asset in 2027 in home conditions. These are exactly the type of pitches Zimbabwe tend to thrive on, the bowling pitches. Please do not make flat tracks like the ones produced for the T20s against India. Zimbabwe will never win a batting shootout against bigger teams.

Huge relief that 21 overs have been bowled. It actually helped that Zimbabwe were bowled out early.

Can only play the oppo in front of your, Zimbabwe got away with a poor batting show. Good captaincy from Craig for once to get Williams into the attack after ten overs and then to get Raza on to get through the overs.

I have never seen a Queens track break up like that so early in a match, yes it spins a bit but no that much.

Well that was an amazing comeback from Zim. I surely never thought they'd collapse like that.

That DLS win was unsatisfying, we were going to win comfortably anyway.

Hopefully the batting unit can do better next game. Really disappointing to get starts and not kick on.

From the actual squad picked that was a decent starting eleven. Not to labour a point but statistically our best T20 batsman wasn't even on the park. 😂

I was surprised Williams bowled first up, his bowling has been average of late, but he came good. I'm guessing he wasn't too confident giving it to Mavuta with a low total on the board.

Frankenfurter knew Bennett was batting down the order today 😂 That is fascinatingly insane that the u19 ZC media fellow knows what the line-up is.

Quite a big call batting Dion at 3. Hard to create a more suitable line-up with those players though.

Big shout out to Richie Ngarava. Was he MoM?

That was an unbelievable game from him. Had Rizwan in a knot as well.

What happened with Musekiwa? He's was in the squad and then he wasn't?

So who's left on the bench?

Maphosa, Akram and ....

Impressive from ZIM. Shambolic from PAK lol. They could go on to lose the series.

Vital points for Zimbabwe though and they will jump about 50 on the ratings and might pip Scotland and back into the top 12.

Amazing to think that if we win one of the next two games we will create history and beat Pakistan in an ODI series for the first time. Cricket is a funny game, we got off to a great start and then gifted our wickets away.

Marumani, Gumbie, Williams, Raza (Don't blame his shot), Mavuta all played poor shots yet somehow Richie manages to give the bowlers a target to defend and a bit of confidence going into the second innings.

Strange that Zimbabwe always play better when defending a low total, we have a decent record defending low scores in T20s.

I'm sure it will be the same XI, I wonder if they will think about calling up Wellington and even Burl if the wickets are going to spin as much as they have. Shame Jongwe is injured, he would be difficult to face on this with all his slower balls.