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[As-Soon-As]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

[noormcs5]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

Once again we saw a big failure in the batting line up from the Zimbabwe team. In a 50 over game, when a team is down at 71 for 7 wickets, you can understand that how miserable they must be playing. Indeed, there is nothing to talk about the Zimbabwe innings except that none of the batsmen were able to stay on the wicket.

Sean Williams is the only player who is batting at 24 and is still not out. These Zimbabwe batsmen were unable to play Rashid Khan and AM Ghazanfar. I am sure that Zimbabwe team will not be able to cross 100 today and even if they make some runs over a 100, they will still lose the match.

[virasog]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

The match between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan is in the progress which is the third ODI game between them. Already Zimbabwe is losing the series 1-0 and now I seems like they will lose this match too as they are playing so poorly.

Already batting in the loss of 8 wickets and just scored 96 runs. I think Sean Williams is the only player in the team who has ability to manage the game but with one partner at least any one would stand with him then he could play the winning innings but sadly there is no good player in Zimbabwe team. By the way he is still batting on 40 and i hope he can complete his century.

For Zimbabwe we get 12.0 odds but it is not worth taking the risk.

[Nanga Parbat]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

Sean Williams, his only batsman in the entire Zimbabwe team, has scored 60 runs off 61 balls.  Apart from this, all the batsmen have been out for a few runs.  Currently, Zimbabwe total score is 126 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 29 overs, which is very low because after a few overs they will run out of innings and the whole team is out.  Afghanistan bowler Ghazanfar has taken 5 wickets this bowler has given only 33 runs in 10 overs and played a very good game for his team.  Their bowler has to achieve a very easy target which he will complete in few overs to win this match.  This is the third match of this series which is very dangerous for Zimbabwe as they will lose this match and lose very badly.If Zimbabwe last batsman scores runs slowly it can make a target of 200 otherwise it can fall prey to Afghanistan bowlers and lose the match by giving away an easy target.

[IvugeoEvolutionCoin]

In today's 3rd ODI match between Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, Zimbabwe team came out to bat and set a target of 127 runs in 30.1 overs for the loss of 10 wickets. Now Afghanistan team came out to bat and scored 84 runs in 18.3 overs for the loss of 1 wicket. Afghanistan team needs 43 runs to win this match. Afghanistan team will win today's match very easily. Afghanistan team batsman Abdul Malik got out for 29 runs in 66 balls.

[Rabata]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

It is impossible to think of winning the match by scoring so little in an ODI match against Afghanistan. Zimbabwe team scored only 130 which is not a decent score in ODI even T20 format. Although Sikandar Raza is considered a reliable player of the match in the Zimbabwe team, the team could not do very well in this match through him. However, Sean Williams is responsible for half of the 130 runs they scored. He himself scored 60 runs. If the Zimbabwe team could have batted for the full 50 overs, then the Zimbabwe team's score could have been 200-250 runs in this match, then Afghanistan would not have been able to win the match so easily.

[noormcs5]

It is impossible to think of winning the match by scoring so little in an ODI match against Afghanistan. Zimbabwe team scored only 130 which is not a decent score in ODI even T20 format. Although Sikandar Raza is considered a reliable player of the match in the Zimbabwe team, the team could not do very well in this match through him. However, Sean Williams is responsible for half of the 130 runs they scored. He himself scored 60 runs. If the Zimbabwe team could have batted for the full 50 overs, then the Zimbabwe team's score could have been 200-250 runs in this match, then Afghanistan would not have been able to win the match so easily.

Absolutely right, you cannot win matches when you score too low score, even the world's best bowling attack will not be able to defend a total as low as 127 runs. Yes, it was such a small score set by the Zimbabwe team that it did not let any chance for their bowlers.

When Afghanistan came to bat, they had no pressure what so ever and they easily chased this score in the 27th over. Both openers played freely with Sediqullah Atal making full use of the opportunity and hit the half century.

What a tour for Afghanistan, they won the T20 and ODI series and now going to play the test series in a few days time.

[Bitcoin_people]

In this match, the Afghanistan team scored very little, due to which they lost the match, they were all out for 127 runs in 30.1 overs. With this few runs, one can never expect to win an ODI match, no matter how well they bowl, and besides, the bowling of the Zimbabwe team is not that good either.

Afghanistan team had a great bowling performance in today's match due to which they put pressure on Zimbabwe team very quickly and got all out. Moreover, Afghanistan team played extremely well to win the series and it was because of their bowling and batting performance that they were able to win the series today.
Afghanistan won by 8 wickets and won the ODI series, the Afghanistan team achieved the target set by Zimbabwe in just 26.5 overs and won. However, if the first match had not been postponed in this ODI match, then the Zimbabwe team might have lost that match against Afghanistan as well, but fortunately the match was drawn.

[Cheema02]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Today is a very important match for Zimbabwe. Because the first match was abandoned due to rain and Afghanistan won the second match, Afghanistan are leading the series. Today will be the 3rd match now if Zimbabwe lose the series will be lost and if they win the series will be tied. Had it not been for rain in the first match, Zimbabwe would have lost. Because Zimbabwe lost 5 wickets within 44 runs. Afghanistan set a target of 287 runs in the second match. Where Zimbabwe were bowled out for 54 runs and lost by a huge margin.  

Afghanistan outstanding performance winning by huge 8 wickets victory against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe disappointing batting and bowling performance only Sean Williams scored 60 runs from 61 balls. Afghanistan chase down the target 131 runs in a loss of just 2 wickets in just 26th over of the match. Sediqullah Atal scored a well deserved half century from 50 balls assisted Afghanistan to easily win this match. The man of the match Allah Ghazanfar for his amazing bowling performance picked 5 important wickets by just giving 33 runs with an impressive run rate of under 4 runs per over. Rashid Khan also bowling performance outclassed picked 3 crucial wickets by just giving 38 runs. Afghanistan won this series with 2-0.

[noormcs5]

Afghanistan outstanding performance winning by huge 8 wickets victory against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe disappointing batting and bowling performance only Sean Williams scored 60 runs from 61 balls. Afghanistan chase down the target 131 runs in a loss of just 2 wickets in just 26th over of the match. Sediqullah Atal scored a well deserved half century from 50 balls assisted Afghanistan to easily win this match. The man of the match Allah Ghazanfar for his amazing bowling performance picked 5 important wickets by just giving 33 runs with an impressive run rate of under 4 runs per over. Rashid Khan also bowling performance outclassed picked 3 crucial wickets by just giving 38 runs. Afghanistan won this series with 2-0.

Also Afghanistan bowlers played a vital role in winning the series and again in this match we saw some outstanding bowling by AM Ghazanfar who took 5 wickets. I think after Rashid Khan, AM Ghazanfar is a good find for the Afghanistan team. Together these two bowlers took 8 wickets in the match and just destroyed the Zimbabwe batting. AM Ghazanfar not only took the most wickets but his economy rate was also the best among the bowlers.

[Insanity]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Today is a very important match for Zimbabwe. Because the first match was abandoned due to rain and Afghanistan won the second match, Afghanistan are leading the series. Today will be the 3rd match now if Zimbabwe lose the series will be lost and if they win the series will be tied. Had it not been for rain in the first match, Zimbabwe would have lost. Because Zimbabwe lost 5 wickets within 44 runs. Afghanistan set a target of 287 runs in the second match. Where Zimbabwe were bowled out for 54 runs and lost by a huge margin.  

Afghanistan outstanding performance winning by huge 8 wickets victory against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe disappointing batting and bowling performance only Sean Williams scored 60 runs from 61 balls. Afghanistan chase down the target 131 runs in a loss of just 2 wickets in just 26th over of the match. Sediqullah Atal scored a well deserved half century from 50 balls assisted Afghanistan to easily win this match. The man of the match Allah Ghazanfar for his amazing bowling performance picked 5 important wickets by just giving 33 runs with an impressive run rate of under 4 runs per over. Rashid Khan also bowling performance outclassed picked 3 crucial wickets by just giving 38 runs. Afghanistan won this series with 2-0.

Actually, Afghanistan cricket team was a worthy contender to win this series. So I think there is nothing surprising in Afghanistan cricket team's 2-0 series win against Zimbabwe cricket team. Basically, Zimbabwe team does not have skilled players like Afghanistan team, due to lack of skilled and talented players in Zimbabwe cricket team, Zimbabwe team could not compete hard against Afghanistan even in a single match. In my opinion, Zimbabwe team needs to be formed more strongly for the future. So that they can compete hard with strong teams.

[ZAINmalik75]

In today's 3rd ODI match between Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, Zimbabwe team came out to bat and set a target of 127 runs in 30.1 overs for the loss of 10 wickets. Now Afghanistan team came out to bat and scored 84 runs in 18.3 overs for the loss of 1 wicket. Afghanistan team needs 43 runs to win this match. Afghanistan team will win today's match very easily. Afghanistan team batsman Abdul Malik got out for 29 runs in 66 balls.

After abundant results in first match of the series they won back to back matches and thus able to get 2-0 lead and won the series, I think most of us were expecting such results for Afghanistan because when it come to ODI and test format Zimbabwen side were quite weak compared to Afghanistan and that's why Afghanistan won on very big margins. Looking to Afghanistan talented opener Sediqullah Atal who are really making runs consistently in back to back innings, in previou match he scored his phenomenal century and now scored half century if he continues like that soon he will on top list of ODI batters. At the end Congratulations to Afghanistan for series victory hope it will help thier player to regain his confidence back.

[Mahdirakib]

For Zimbabwe we get 12.0 odds but it is not worth taking the risk.

It would have been stupidity only to bet on Zimbabwe during that moment of the match . Zimbabwe has performed badly in the 3rd ODI as well like the first two matches. Sean Williams had helped them to collect above 100 runs. Afghanistan has easily chased the target. The pre-match odds were between 1.20× to 1.30× for Afghanistan to win. The odds weren't big, but it was worth for a sure bet. In my view, Zimbabwe didn't even had 1% chance to win the match.

[Marvell1]

For Zimbabwe we get 12.0 odds but it is not worth taking the risk.

It would have been stupidity only to bet on Zimbabwe during that moment of the match . Zimbabwe has performed badly in the 3rd ODI as well like the first two matches. Sean Williams had helped them to collect above 100 runs. Afghanistan has easily chased the target. The pre-match odds were between 1.20× to 1.30× for Afghanistan to win. The odds weren't big, but it was worth for a sure bet. In my view, Zimbabwe didn't even had 1% chance to win the match.

Zimbabwe could not gain any advantage in the home series against Afghanistan. Zimbabwe won the first T20 match. So we thought this series might be competitive. But Afghanistan dominated and won every match after that. Afghanistan performed well in this series.

Afghanistan also won the first two ODI matches very easily. In the DET match, we saw that Zimbabwe lost all their wickets for just 54 runs. Afghanistan won by 232 runs. In the last match too, Zimbabwe's batsmen could not play well. Zimbabwe gave a target of only 128 runs. Winning such a small target was not a difficult task for Afghanistan. Afghanistan reached the target of victory by losing only 2 wickets. Opener Sediqullah Atal was able to score 52 runs from 50 balls. Afghanistan's two bowlers AM Ghazanfar and Rashid Khan bowled brilliantly today. AM Ghazanfar took 5 wickets and Rashid Khan took 3 wickets.

[noormcs5]

It would have been stupidity only to bet on Zimbabwe during that moment of the match . Zimbabwe has performed badly in the 3rd ODI as well like the first two matches. Sean Williams had helped them to collect above 100 runs. Afghanistan has easily chased the target. The pre-match odds were between 1.20× to 1.30× for Afghanistan to win. The odds weren't big, but it was worth for a sure bet. In my view, Zimbabwe didn't even had 1% chance to win the match.

Before the start of the match, it was not a sure shot bet on Afghanistan. Even if a team is much stronger, still there could be a bad day or the weak opponent may play a better game on the day. Upsets do happen sometimes. That is why in pre-match odds, the bookies offered 1.2x bets. However, soon after the match started and Zimbabwe started to show insanely bad performance, the odds for Afghanistan decreased a lot and sooner you would find only 1.02 or 1.03 odds for Afghanistan.

[fullhdpixel]

you cannot win matches when you score too low score, even the world's best bowling attack will not be able to defend a total as low as 127 runs. Yes, it was such a small score set by the Zimbabwe team that it did not let any chance for their bowlers.

When Afghanistan came to bat, they had no pressure what so ever and they easily chased this score in the 27th over. Both openers played freely with Sediqullah Atal making full use of the opportunity and hit the half century.

What a tour for Afghanistan, they won the T20 and ODI series and now going to play the test series in a few days time.

Afghanistan after losing first game on Zimbabwean soil completely outclass them and have won in T20i and ODI series which is surely moral booster for them even we have Zimbabwe completely down and out of touch but still as Afghanistan give them punishment this is now matter of concern for the Zimbabwean management because their team is losing their moral badly.

In today game which was last for white-ball format Afghanistan chose to field first which was good decision because their bowlers trashed Zimbabwe in 30 overs with the score on board was 127 which was easy to have win in match and series young kid AM Ghazanfar took 9 wickets and Sediqullah Atal score 156 runs as these are new hero's for them in this format.

[As-Soon-As]

Zimbabwe team lost all their wickets in a short period of time due to high wicket-fall, saving wickets is the most important thing in this match. Afghanistan team won the ODI series, their performance was the best this season. One player from Zimbabwe Sean Williams he was the only one who played well enough but the other players could not support him.
But the first opening pair of Afghanistan team performed the best, and they lost by a huge margin of 8 wickets. Afghanistan team performed well in both bowling and batting that is why they were able to win this series by a huge margin.

[ThemePen]

Afghanistan after losing first game on Zimbabwean soil completely outclass them and have won in T20i and ODI series which is surely moral booster for them even we have Zimbabwe completely down and out of touch but still as Afghanistan give them punishment this is now matter of concern for the Zimbabwean management because their team is losing their moral badly.

In today game which was last for white-ball format Afghanistan chose to field first which was good decision because their bowlers trashed Zimbabwe in 30 overs with the score on board was 127 which was easy to have win in match and series young kid AM Ghazanfar took 9 wickets and Sediqullah Atal score 156 runs as these are new hero's for them in this format.

Afghanistan made great comeback after losing their first game in Zimbabwe. They showed that they are strong team that does not give up. By winning T20I and ODI series they made themselves feel proud and also made Zimbabwe team management worried. Zimbabwe has not been playing well lately and their team confidence is very low. In last match Afghanistan played much better than Zimbabwe. They did not let Zimbabwe score many runs and then they easily scored enough runs to win. It is exciting to see new players from Afghanistan doing well. AM Ghazanfar took 9 wickets and Sediqullah Atal scored 156 runs. This is good sign for Afghanistan future in cricket.

[AirtelBuzz]

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI

Zimbabwe team is under pressure of two massive wickets after losing three wickets in the power play, the chances of the next batsmen to perform well are very low. The Zimbabwe team fans never imagined that the aggressive batsmen will fall so quickly, as the best bowler of today's Afghanistan team, Ghazanfar is performing very well so far.
The chances of Afghanistan team winning in today's match are very high, if Sikandar Raja can perform well as the last hope of Zimbabwe team, then he can collect good colors in the end. If 200 plus runs are scored in this match, the only competition will be between the two teams.

It is impossible to think of winning the match by scoring so little in an ODI match against Afghanistan. Zimbabwe team scored only 130 which is not a decent score in ODI even T20 format.

Perhaps this is the problem of the Zimbabwean team, they cannot consistently perform in batting. Zimbabwe scored just 127 runs in the third ODI, Which is not a good score for any format of cricket. Comparing their performance in the second match and the third match, it would seem that they performed better in the third match than in the second match. You might be more surprised to see Zimbabwe's performance in the second match as they were bowled out for just 54 runs in that match.

Although Sikandar Raza is considered a reliable player of the match in the Zimbabwe team, the team could not do very well in this match through him.

Of course Sikandar Raja is a reliable player in Zimbabwe, he is the best player in this team. But though he is a reliable batsman, he may not be able to score more runs in every match. Zimbabwe team has not been playing well in cricket for a long time, they don't have any good players in their team who will perform well all the time.

[Rabata]

Afghanistan after losing first game on Zimbabwean soil completely outclass them and have won in T20i and ODI series which is surely moral booster for them even we have Zimbabwe completely down and out of touch but still as Afghanistan give them punishment this is now matter of concern for the Zimbabwean management because their team is losing their moral badly.

In today game which was last for white-ball format Afghanistan chose to field first which was good decision because their bowlers trashed Zimbabwe in 30 overs with the score on board was 127 which was easy to have win in match and series young kid AM Ghazanfar took 9 wickets and Sediqullah Atal score 156 runs as these are new hero's for them in this format.

Afghanistan made great comeback after losing their first game in Zimbabwe. They showed that they are strong team that does not give up. By winning T20I and ODI series they made themselves feel proud and also made Zimbabwe team management worried. Zimbabwe has not been playing well lately and their team confidence is very low. In last match Afghanistan played much better than Zimbabwe. They did not let Zimbabwe score many runs and then they easily scored enough runs to win. It is exciting to see new players from Afghanistan doing well. AM Ghazanfar took 9 wickets and Sediqullah Atal scored 156 runs. This is good sign for Afghanistan future in cricket.

Zimbabwe is not winning against Afghanistan in recent matches, I will not say that Zimbabwe is doing badly, but the score that Zimbabwe scored in the last match definitely shows that their performance has deteriorated a bit. Afghanistan is definitely a strong team, if Zimbabwe want to do well against them, they will have to give their best, otherwise it will be difficult to beat them. The score in the last ODI match was only 127 and Afghanistan won the match by just 2 wickets. But when Zimbabwe won the first T20 match, they were able to score 146 in 20 overs. They have a Test match against Afghanistan, if they can improve a little from here, then their chances may increase slightly.