A completely irrelevant test match is taking place at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont, between Ireland and Zimbabwe. I don't understand the point in having just three teams in second division test cricket. Ideally there should be at least 8 teams. Apart from the existing ones (Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan), they can add Scotland, Netherlands, Nepal, Namibia and USA. Anyway, at this point, Zimbabwe has got a good start. They are at 65/0, without the loss of any wickets. Prince Masvaure and Joylord Gumbie are at the crease.
After a long time we are seeing Zimbabwe playing Test cricket. Zimbabwe finished their first innings game against Ireland yesterday where Zimbabwe scored 210 runs at the end of the first day and at the end of the first innings. Ireland will be batting in their first innings on day two and will definitely be looking to finish day two ahead of Zimbabwe. The outcome of the match depends a lot on the first innings of the opposing team. If Ireland can be ahead of Zimbabwe in the first innings then Ireland will win this match but if Zimbabwe is ahead at the end of the first innings then Zimbabwe will bat again and they will try to give Ireland a big target. All the best to Zimbabwe as they don the jersey of Test cricket after a long time.
I think the Zimbabwe team had to play slow that time, I am pretty sure if they would not play fast and -play slow that time, then might their team would have been alive in the test and would bat tomorrow and give a good target but they have all out just because of one mistake.
As we know, the Joylord Gumbie and Prince Masvaure gave them a very great start but they have to maintain it, the openers has done their responsibility but when the middle order was started then back to back wickets were falling. To manage that Prince Masvaure started to play fast but he lost his wicket too so we cannot blame to Prince Masvaure because he made the highest score in the team.