Zimbabwe V Bangladesh, Only Test Thread

[Duty281]

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Zimbabwe have not played a test since 2005 but now they will against Bangladesh in Harare. There is no rankings at stake here, just pride. And it will be good to have Zimbabwe back to the Test Arena.

Zimbabwe: (probable) 1 Tinotenda Mawoyo, 2 Vusi Sibanda, 3 Hamilton Maskadzaa, 4 Brendan Taylor (capt), 5 Tatenda Taibu (wk), 6 Craig Ervine, 7 Elton Chigumbura, 8 Kyle Jarvis, 9 Ray Price, 10 Chris Mpofu, 11 Brian Vitori

Bangladesh: (probable) 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Shahriar Nafees, 5 Mohammad Ashraful, 6 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 8 Mahmudullah, 9 Shafiul Islam, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Robiul Islam

Should be a fun, low-scoring game. Starts at 08:00 GMT or 09:00 BST

[Guest]

204-7

[ShankyCricket]

Razzak's cameo is over.It was very entertaining till it lasted though.

[activereactive]

228-8 @ lunch.

Its gonna be a wonderFUEL win for long starved Zimbos.

[Guest]

244-9 taylor has put 6 slips in

[activereactive]

BANG BANG 244- AO
done n dusted, congrats to Zimbos.

[msp83]

Well done Zimbabwe, welcome back to test cricket!. They have done it in some style!.
Bangladesh should take it hard, Zim was out of test cricket for 6 years, yet they bossed the game throughout. The Bangla players have to toughen themselves up more for test success.
Jarvis and Vitori seem a decent opening bowling unit for Zim, precisely that is what Bangladesh lack. Robiul doesn't look test class at all, Rubel and Shafiul have to improve their consistency. They have to bring Mashrafe Mortaza back as soon as possible.
In the spin department, its high time they forget the flat and fast offerings from Razzak. Sure he was the Mr. entertainer of the day, but he just can't cut it at test level, even after getting endless opportunities. Suhrawadi Shuvo has a much better FC record, and he too can give the bowling a good thrash, in fact better than Razak can. Also, Mahmudullah's underrated bowling should be used more, same holds for Ashraful, who can really turn a cricket ball.

[Guest]

good start for taylor as test skipper

[longhopmerchant]

A great victory by Zimbabwe!!!

What an idiot Iqbal now looks after claiming Vitori was an 'ordinary' bowler and Jarvis was nothing better than 'ok'.

Zimbabwe will hoping continue to develop and push Windies and NZ in the rankings.

Bangladesh need to learn some respect.

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