Windies Tour of Zimbabwe: Oct 11th to Nov 3rd, 2017

[aklemalp]

Arrival:October 11th

October 15-17: warmup match v Zimbabwe A at Bulawayo Athletic Club

October 21-25: 1st Test at Queen's Sports Club, Bulawayo

October 29- November 2: 2nd Test at Queen's Sports Club, Bulawayo

Departure: November 3rd


October cricket in Zimbabwe with the return of Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis.

Looking to see both of them will be included in the warmup match.

[aklemalp]

Haven't seen any squads up yet on cricinfo...

[Yankees]

Looking forward to seeing how much impact the returning players willl have.

[aklemalp]

Anyone remember that test Brendan Taylor played in and he scored a century in both innings?

[Gowza]

No Darren bravo I thought was kind of weird.

WI got some exciting fast bowling talent not on this tour but hopefully will be in the fray soon. Beaton already in the squads but oshane Thomas looks awesome, Reynard levereriege has potential, odean smith, chemar holder, keon harding and sylvester clarkes son shakeem Clarke is getting some hype now.

Ambris, Lewis, bravo, shai hope could make a solid batting unit.

Russell, rovman, Reiffer pretty decent allrounders.

narine, nurse for the spinners.

I'm sure I've missed some names especially with the batting.

[DinRaat.]

In form, Mire, Raza and Ervine combined with BRMT and Kyle Jarvis. The WI don't stand a chance.

[Shadow]

The West Indies squad will remain unchanged. I hope to see a good series.

[Tigers_eye]

Revamped Zimbabwe have teeth now. WI should win though. There will be fight and resistance for sure. Very interesting series.

[aklemalp]

Windies will feel at home with the crowd and turnout

[RealSports]

It will be interesting to see how Zimbabwe does at home given their recent success away to Sri Lanka. It's an important series despite being a low-key one. I don't think they are part of the test table as of yet.

[One World]

Shai Hope will be the man of the series.

[aklemalp]

Oh, finally:

West Indies Test Squad / Players:
Jason Holder(Captain)
Kraigg Brathwaite(Vice-Captain)
Devendra Bishoo
Jermaine Blackwood
Roston Chase
Miguel Cummins
Shane Dowrich
Shannon Gabriel
Shimron Hetmyer
Kyle Hope
Shai Hope
Alzarri Joseph
Kieran Powell
Raymon Reifer
Kemar Roach

Average age: 26 years, 102 days

[aklemalp]

Zimbabwe Squad:
Graeme Cremer (captain)
Hamilton Masakadza
Sean Williams
Craig Ervine
Brendan Taylor
Regis Chakabva
Malcolm Waller
Solomon Mire
Sikandar Raza Butt
Peter Moor
Chamu Chibhabha
Tendai Chisoro
Richard Ngarava
Chris Mpofu
Mike Chinouya
Kyle Jarvis
Nyasha Mayavo

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Jason Holder on Zimbabwe cricket:

“They (Zimbabwe) had a really good time in Sri Lanka and they seem to be very competitive,” the all-rounder noted.

“And obviously with Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis coming back into their squad, they’re pretty much at full strength as well.

“Consistency is something I’ve preached in the dressing room for a very long time and I think once we’re consistent in all departments we should get the results we’re looking for.”

[aklemalp]

Windies have arrived in Zimbabwe today./

[Tigers_eye]

Good speech by holder. Please keep Marlon Samuels away from micro phone. He may all of a sudden start saying "Ordinary" like Tamim.

[aklemalp]

Slow start to the warmup match, we are batting first- 98/3 in 45 overs.

Kraigg with 48, he's out
Kyle Hope with 44, he's out

Shai and Roston at the crease, both in single figures.

Go Windies!

[Night_wolf]

why no ODI in this series?

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
why no ODI in this series?

I think I was not scheduled, it was arranged last minute. So I love me some tests.

[aklemalp]

...and I'm excited about our test team than ODI at the moment.

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
I think I was not scheduled, it was arranged last minute. So I love me some tests.

5/7 ODIs would have been good preparation for WI before the WC qualifying, specially when the qualifiers are taking place in Zim

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
5/7 ODIs would have been good preparation for WI before the WC qualifying, specially when the qualifiers are taking place in Zim

I would have love a complete series. But it is what it is at the moment.

Teams are not doing that at the moment...Australia just finished a limited overs series against India...now NZ are preparing to play a limited overs series against India.

[aklemalp]

Chase and Shai going along easily...26 and 25 respectively.

148/3

[aklemalp]

The partnership is still going strong.

226/3

Shai on 70
Chase on 52

[aklemalp]

Stumps.

301/6 (90 overs)

Shai- 85
Chase-79

Both of them retired out

[aklemalp]

Bowled out Zimbabwe A for 143

We are currently batting on 74/1 in the second innings. Shai on 35*, Powell on 34*