Zimbabwe vs Namibia | 3rd T20I

Good first over from Ngarava. He is far ahead of anyone else we have

Finally Zimbabwe getting a grip on Namibia, 40/3 after 7 the namibians.

Frylink was dead in front but Umpire is blind, what can we do?

I hate blind @ss *** umpires.

Has anyone else noticed that Raza seems to be bowling complete Crap in this series. Seems to have changed his action again?

If you find a VPN with a Namibia setting then it works.

Or just Bet365, which seems to work pretty much everywhere.

If I'm not mistaken I think this is the first time Namibia have ever hosted a men's Full Member nation for a full international series?

And yet there appears to be less than 15 spectators in the ground.

Crastle_cog wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:38 pm

I don't want to be negative after a win but k-long is the epitome of the problem in our system. It's either boundary or dots. We seriously need these guys to learn how to nick out the ones and twos. It's wonderful how he can hit the ball but if you add the running to your game I figure you could be more of a complete player.

To add to this, even though someone f K Longs shots were great, I think he would get smoked in a class attack.

Maybe it was just the camera work or something but the Namibian attack looked as terrible as I’ve ever seen from an international side. Similar to Oman. Medium pacers not well placed. Basic spinners you get in every side. I never felt the victory was in doubt and I tuned in just as Welch got out.

I think you’ve got a touch of recency bias Donald mate. Can’t just go off the last match or last series when Ervine has a 15-year body of work where he’s been so classy whilst K-long has underperformed many times historically.

It takes time to change people’s opinions so K-long needs to put a run of good scores together to over a period of time for people to be convinced. Let’s hope he can do that!

He faced a large amount of dot balls yesterday. That’s his big issue

I like that we are giving chances to everyone, that is really good. Kamunhukamwe did well yesterday and I would like to see him play with more freedom. Welch I hope gets a big 50 in the next game, that will be great for his confidence. They should play him in all 5 games.

Raza has been the stand out player, hands down the best across both teams. This is his format, he is at his best in T20s and is making it count.

Donald wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 9:44 am

TapsC2 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:04 am

That is the issue but he did ok. He doesn't pick his opponents. Those are the kind of guys who will destroy Rwanda for example. Just smack them and not over think it like what some of our better batsmen do.

Not sure of all the K long criticism. Was he not our second top scorer in match. First international for a while so has right to be a little circumspect. I would be more worried about ervines form right now

Recency bias is a good way of saying it. Kudos to secret on that. I’ll go one step further. He is the sort of guy that I could easily feel smoking a 50 against a s***ty associate but I measure by batsman how they perform against top 8 attacks. There is NO WAY K Long performs better than the Maruma types in this regard. Maruma (and Ceohas) was the ultimate 3rd rate attack bully.

The only current guys who are capable against a real attack are Raza (even he gets overwhelmed) Williams, Burl, Wes and Craig.

Craig’s technique and mindset makes him just as adept at NZ as he is against Namibia.

I love the way Kamunhukamwe is referred to as "K long" by almost everyone on the forum! 😂