Monday 8 August 2011

Zimbabwe On The Brink Of Victory

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Zimbabwe v Bangladesh, test only, Harare, day five

Report Firdos Moonda in Harare

August 8, 2011

Lunch in Bangladesh, 287 and 228, 8 (7 * Shafiul, Rubel * 4) is another 147 runs to beat Zimbabwe, 370 and 291 for December 5

Zimbabwe were about to do a test drive after a dominant performance bowling the morning of. Brian Jarvis and Kyle Vitor inlet pressure created, leaving the rank of Bangladesh ripe for the picking by Chris Mpofu and Elton Chigumbura. Your screen went almost flawless a performance by the Zimbabwe attack and left two windows to make a winning return to test cricket.

Bangladesh batsmen had a difficult but possible. They needed 263 with seven wickets in hand at the beginning of the day on land that had not deteriorated and remained good for batting. Instead of applying the patience and planning, however, had a sloppy clutch hits, especially since it became clear that his challenge was to dispel.

A safe Tamim Iqbal scored and Jarvis Vitor "regular" at the end of four days, and they demanded their hand at the beginning of the fifth. Vitor began to show a form of swing seen him in this fight, move the ball into the right turn, while Jarvis played with good pace and variation, dragging his balls full, short and slow.

Mohammad Ashraful was up to. He left well and took advantage of anything overpitched. He turned with the same calmness that he had used in his first innings, and has also done an excellent job classification of its partner, Mushfiqur Rahim, who showed up verdict.

Vitor continued to connect right away, get some balls away, others to hold their line and after several postponements of the length of nagging, Ashraful had had enough. He tried to surrender now, but shredded at the end and took the inside edge of the logs. With this release, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have shaken pumping.

Vitor stop Ashraful followed with a superb turn on BAT Mahmudullah twice. The danger for Zimbabwe came when the opening torque was replaced, but Chigumbura Mpofu and did not let up. Mpofu varied length, while Chigumbura put on an impressive display of bowling balls much slower than possible.

Mahmudullah had decided to crate where he could, but his enthusiasm was more than a mini-collapse, during which Bangladesh has lost three wickets in seven balls 12 runs. He tried to cut without foot movement, and was caught behind. Five balls later, Shakib Al Hasan, who also played in an irresponsible way, Taylor went on to capture the fort at second slip after pressing the length of the ball, and then Mushfiqur Rahim accurate knock ended when flicked the ball square foot .

The Zimbabwe smelled blood, but instead of going with instinct murderer, they relaxed a bit and Abdur Razzak has to have fun. Smoked five fours in one over Mpofu six three of Ray Price, two of them slog sweeps. The cameo ended when Chigumbura through the window, broke the defense and was annoyed.

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