ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[roksana.hee]

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It's concerning to see Sri Lanka struggling against Zimbabwe on their home ground. The reliance on the tail to secure a win highlights a significant weakness. What are your thoughts on Sri Lanka's current ODI performance, and do you believe they have the potential to qualify for the next World Cup given their recent struggles?

[MusaPk]

In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.

Zimbabwe was very close to win in yesterday ODI, they weren't able to put good runs on the board batting first. Craig Ervine scored 82 runs and there is no other batsman that was able to score 50. The result of yesterday game would be in favor of Zimbabwe if the have scored 230 runs. Janith Liyanage was man of the match in yesterday's game for his match winning 95 runs.

[Bd officer]

In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.

Zimbabwe was very close to win in yesterday ODI, they weren't able to put good runs on the board batting first. Craig Ervine scored 82 runs and there is no other batsman that was able to score 50. The result of yesterday game would be in favor of Zimbabwe if the have scored 230 runs. Janith Liyanage was man of the match in yesterday's game for his match winning 95 runs.

In yesterday's match, Zimbabwe were all out for just 208 runs. 209 runs which was a very low target in ODI format. But Sri Lanka had to bat for 49 overs to win the target of 209 runs, in the end Sri Lanka won by just 2 wickets. Really commendable Zimbabwean bowlers in yesterday's match, they bowled brilliantly. Sri Lanka batting line up at home was not expected to be this bad. But all the Sri Lankan batsmen performed very poorly. None other than Janith Liyanage gave a good performance. Zimbabwe played really well yesterday.

[Cheema02]

In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.

Zimbabwe was very close to win in yesterday ODI, they weren't able to put good runs on the board batting first. Craig Ervine scored 82 runs and there is no other batsman that was able to score 50. The result of yesterday game would be in favor of Zimbabwe if the have scored 230 runs. Janith Liyanage was man of the match in yesterday's game for his match winning 95 runs.

I hope Zimbabwe will bounce back in 3rd ODi match against Srilanka. Zimbabwe won this second odi also if they played complete 50 overs amd in add 20 to 30 more runs in the total.  Zimbabwe played well Ryan Burl scored 30 runs in 37 balls and Joylord Gumbie also batting well but scored only 30 runs. But credit goes to Srilanka bowlers who bowled out Zimbabwe in just 208 runs especially Theekshana and Dushmantha Chameera who picked 2 wickets by giving 44 runs and Jeffrey Vandersay also picked 2 wickets. Let see what happened in 3rd Odi and Srilanka is favourite to win this Series.

[roksana.hee]

It was a close match, and Sri Lanka's bowlers did well to limit Zimbabwe's total. Hopefully, Zimbabwe can bounce back in the third ODI. It will be interesting to see how both teams perform.

[ZAINmalik75]

It was a close match, and Sri Lanka's bowlers did well to limit Zimbabwe's total. Hopefully, Zimbabwe can bounce back in the third ODI. It will be interesting to see how both teams perform.

I don't think they has capability to bounce back against a top side like sirilankan, if we have a look at Zimbabwean team they have just few counted player that make a decent performance at most of the time like sikander and Thier captain ervine while rather than them none of thier are consistent and dependable. So that's things make them more under pressure and more weaker. Anyway due to rain interpretation they abounded the first match which was in my view easy victory for sirilankan while in today match Zimbabwean side show some decent performance but same just like explained single or Double player performance can't win the match for team, you has to play as a team in order to beat any strong side.

[redsun114]

Sri Lankan played very well in 2nd ODI match against Zimbabwe. Sri Lankan International ODI cricket team played very in 1st ODI but match ended without any result due to rain but in second match they bent the the ti their side . Sri Lankan bowlers performed very well , especially theekshana who 4 wickets by giving 31 runs in 9.4 balls. Vandersay took 2 wickets and played vital role in win of Sri Lankan team match.Liyanage performance is outstanding and he made excellent 95 runs in 127 balls . Front Zimbabwe batting side , Ervin played excellent inning and made brilliant 82 runs in 102 balls.

I can't agree with your post. Sri Lanka really struggled yesterday. At one point they were 112/6, with another 97 runs needed for the win. But then the 7th wicket partnership between Janith Liyanage and Maheesh Theekshana took them home. Liyanage was playing in his second ODI and he showed tremendous patience under difficult conditions. Even after Theekshana got out, the other lower order batsmen (Dushmantha Chameera and Jeffrey Vandersay) managed to dig in and make sure that Sri Lanka wins this match.

I agree that Zimbabwe is already down and out of the International cricket with living into tier-2 done good job against team like Sri Lanka which is also now having the worst time and things are looking for more downfall if they are not going to fix their issues in near future Liyanage done impressive job even he was playing into his second ODI when he was playing it is looking easy for them but after his wicket while they still have 39 runs this was some troubling time but poor quality and lack of experience hurt Zimbabwe with this defeat.

Here they need to be aggressive and better, but sadly things were not enough for them to win this game and bring themselves to the level now after having this win Sri Lanka is leading the series by 1–0 with first match was abandoned due to rain.

[Nalain420]

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe 2nd ODI match Zimbabwe scored 208 runs in 44.4 overs.Zimbabwe team batsmen were all out which was a good performance from Sri Lanka team.But I thought Zimbabwe team can give target of 250 runs but Zimbabwe team batsmen gave poor performance.  for could not win today's match.Sri Lanka team won the match by 2 wickets.Sri Lanka team batsman Janith Liyanage scored 95 runs in 127 balls.Janith Liyanage narrowly failed to score 100 runs.Because of 95 runs Janith Liyanage was out.

Zimbabwe batsman could not worked hard and struggle and could not make runs.This is the easy target for Sri Lanka batsman. yes you are right. Sri Lanka bowler bowling very well.Sri Lankan bowlers worked hard and struggled to get wickets.  And got an easy target.  And it was a huge success.This is a big success of the Sri Lankan team that they won the match against Zimbabwe.Janith liyanage played very well and could worked hard and struggle and make 95 run and success for team.All Sri Lanka team played very well and worked hard and get the achievement.If the Zimbabwean team worked hard and struggled, they would have won the match and achieved success.  But they didn't work hard enough and luck didn't support them and they lost the match.

[wiss19]

In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.

While Sri Lanka were chasing 209 runs we have too many ups and downs with both teams wee struggling badly and lacking of quality and experience which hurt them but still Sri Lanka having good advantage as their newly debutant batsman Janith Liyanage keep his cool and not allow Zimbabwean bowlers to take full control, and he stands till good recovery but as he bowled out on 172 then we still have 37 and just 2 wickets but tail enders done good job and enjoy inexperienced bowling of Mohammad Faraz Akram who bowled 49th over and give 13 runs for the win of Sri Lanka which is now leading the series.

Richard Ngarava take 5 for 32 and captain Sikandar Raza lead from front with having 2 for 32 but all gone in vain as they were not able to bowled out last two wickets while they were doing good job throughout the match after having poor target of 209.

[noormcs5]

Zimbabwe definitely could have actually won the match easily if they had a little more depth in their batting lineup. Sri Lanka also made things a lot harder for themselves than it should have been. Sri Lanka must have been actually scared of losing. The 8th we get actually fell on 172 if I am not wrong. I was actually surprised to see Sri Lanka win the match from there. I thought that Sri Lanka might actually lose the last 2 weeks and Zimbabwe might actually win. But Sri Lanka and depth. Well, I don't know if I should say they have depth because, at the end of the day, Sri Lanka got saved by lower-order batsmen.

Yesterday was the second match of Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, and this match was again won by Sri Lanka, of course, if they didn't win it so ICC would be right to ban their team.

The Sri Lankan team also struggled to win it, Zimbabwe gave the target under 220 runs, and the Sri Lankan team chased this target in the 49th over, they should have chased it under the 38th over. I agree if there are big teams like India, and Pakistan so it's good to chase the same target on the 49th over but there is Zimbabwe who were even not qualified for the World Cup.

[HelliumZ]

Zimbabwe definitely could have actually won the match easily if they had a little more depth in their batting lineup. Sri Lanka also made things a lot harder for themselves than it should have been. Sri Lanka must have been actually scared of losing. The 8th we get actually fell on 172 if I am not wrong. I was actually surprised to see Sri Lanka win the match from there. I thought that Sri Lanka might actually lose the last 2 weeks and Zimbabwe might actually win. But Sri Lanka and depth. Well, I don't know if I should say they have depth because, at the end of the day, Sri Lanka got saved by lower-order batsmen.

Yesterday was the second match of Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, and this match was again won by Sri Lanka, of course, if they didn't win it so ICC would be right to ban their team.

The Sri Lankan team also struggled to win it, Zimbabwe gave the target under 220 runs, and the Sri Lankan team chased this target in the 49th over, they should have chased it under the 38th over. I agree if there are big teams like India, and Pakistan so it's good to chase the same target on the 49th over but there is Zimbabwe who were even not qualified for the World Cup.

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

[noormcs5]

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

This series was started from some days and the first match of this series was also lost by  Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe, and at the second match of this series that played yesterday has also the same situation.

The Sri Lankan team won against Zimbabwe by 2 wickets, but in this series, we have seen many improvements by the Zimbabwe team, they did very well bowling,  they out a player in the first over, and we have seen they were playing like a professional team, and maybe after the next  few years, Zimbabwe team took the place of Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka took the place of Zimbabwe.

[HelliumZ]

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

This series was started from some days and the first match of this series was also lost by  Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe, and at the second match of this series that played yesterday has also the same situation.

The Sri Lankan team won against Zimbabwe by 2 wickets, but in this series, we have seen many improvements by the Zimbabwe team, they did very well bowling,  they out a player in the first over, and we have seen they were playing like a professional team, and maybe after the next  few years, Zimbabwe team took the place of Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka took the place of Zimbabwe.

First match, Avishka  Fernando out by Richard Ngavara just 5th number ball at First over.

Second match, Avishka Fernando out by Richard Ngavara just 5th number ball at First over.

However, the bowlers have actually improved more than the batsmen in this Zimbabwean series. But unfortunately everyone in the cricket world knows how much the team that did not qualify in the last ODI World Cup can improve. However, although Zimbabwe is not better than Sri Lanka, it is doing better than Sri Lanka in terms of overall performance in this series.

[noormcs5]

First match, Avishka  Fernando out by Richard Ngavara just 5th number ball at First over.

Second match, Avishka Fernando out by Richard Ngavara just 5th number ball at First over.

However, the bowlers have actually improved more than the batsmen in this Zimbabwean series. But unfortunately everyone in the cricket world knows how much the team that did not qualify in the last ODI World Cup can improve. However, although Zimbabwe is not better than Sri Lanka, it is doing better than Sri Lanka in terms of overall performance in this series.

The match between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka was finished yesterday and the result of this second one-day was a good result for Sri Lanka but not for Zimbabwe, because if Zimbabwe made at least 16 runs more so they have a chance to beat Sri Lanka if they made just 15 runs more but Zimbabwe team also played very well.

They fought until the last ball, but now at least, the Zimbabwe team was able to face Sri Lanka neck to neck, slowly their team becoming a good team. Let's see will they defeat Sri Lanka in the next match.

[virasog]

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

The team of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe had a series of some ODI matches and some T20s, and in the second ODI match, the Zimbabwe team wanted to bat first that's why when they won the toss so they decided to bat first, they gave the target of 208 runs while they lost all the wickets.

Then Sri Lankan team came to the batting and on this, it feels during the match like Zimbabwe can win this match because in the current performances of Zimbabwe seems the improvement in their bowling, so they took the 8 wickets of Sri Lankan but Sri Lankan team won the match because the target was low.

[Fuso.hp]

Zimbabwe definitely could have actually won the match easily if they had a little more depth in their batting lineup. Sri Lanka also made things a lot harder for themselves than it should have been. Sri Lanka must have been actually scared of losing. The 8th we get actually fell on 172 if I am not wrong. I was actually surprised to see Sri Lanka win the match from there. I thought that Sri Lanka might actually lose the last 2 weeks and Zimbabwe might actually win. But Sri Lanka and depth. Well, I don't know if I should say they have depth because, at the end of the day, Sri Lanka got saved by lower-order batsmen.

Yesterday was the second match of Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, and this match was again won by Sri Lanka, of course, if they didn't win it so ICC would be right to ban their team.

The Sri Lankan team also struggled to win it, Zimbabwe gave the target under 220 runs, and the Sri Lankan team chased this target in the 49th over, they should have chased it under the 38th over. I agree if there are big teams like India, and Pakistan so it's good to chase the same target on the 49th over but there is Zimbabwe who were even not qualified for the World Cup.

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

In the first ODI match between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka secured victory against Zimbabwe at the very end of the match. Coming into the circumstances in which Zimbabwe lost to Sri Lanka, the Zimbabwean fans and players may have thought that if they could have scored 10 to 20 more runs or if the bowlers could have bowled a little more controlled, the victory might have been in Zimbabwe's favour. Sri Lanka secured a comfortable two-wicket win at the very end of the 49th over. Sri Lanka did not bounce back well from the post-World Cup ban which led to a poor performance against a team like Zimbabwe. The match they won against Zimbabwe was not a total and good performance win but a bad performance win.

[Compromise me]

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

Sri Lanka again won the match form Zimbabwe.Sri Lanka is strong team as compared to Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is new cricket team .Still, Zimbabwe performed well and scored 208 runs, but the runs were too few to win. Zimbabwe one player preformed very well ,Ervine he made 82 run in 102 balls  and Sri Lanka side J Liyanage preformed very well he made 95 runs in 127 balls and bowling side Sri Lanka Theekshana preformed well he took 4 wickets by giving 31 run in 9 overs .

[noormcs5]

In the first ODI match between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka secured victory against Zimbabwe at the very end of the match. Coming into the circumstances in which Zimbabwe lost to Sri Lanka, the Zimbabwean fans and players may have thought that if they could have scored 10 to 20 more runs or if the bowlers could have bowled a little more controlled, the victory might have been in Zimbabwe's favour. Sri Lanka secured a comfortable two-wicket win at the very end of the 49th over. Sri Lanka did not bounce back well from the post-World Cup ban which led to a poor performance against a team like Zimbabwe. The match they won against Zimbabwe was not a total and good performance win but a bad performance win.

Joylord Gumbie was the Vice-captain of the Zimbabwe team and he also is the opener of the Zimbabwe team and his opening is average. He made 30 runs while he used more than balls 37.

He was out by Theekshana, and when he hit a four to Theekshana so Theekshana didn't accept this and he was in an aggression mood on the next ball he gave the ball on the outside off, it was the cover drive ball but he flicked it but the ball was suddenly came inside and hitting the off stump of the wicket. This is how he was out.

Janith Liyanage, from Srilanka made 95 runs in 127 balls and he was declared the Man of the Match. Although earlier Craig Ervine, the captain of Zimbabwe made good 82 runs but this was neglected by Janith Liyanage who played a bigger and better innings.

[Minor Miner]

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are two teams of equal strength in the current conditions, especially considering tomorrow's match at Sri Lanka's home ground, Zimbabwe has performed very well in comparison. If Zimbabwe had given a target of 230-250 runs instead of going all out, Sri Lanka would have been defeated by Zimbabwe in tomorrow's match. Yesterday Sri Lanka fell eight wickets short of a target of 209 and with 49 overs to spare they managed to pull off the win. Meanwhile, to collect 208 runs, Zimbabwe had to play 44 overs of four balls. In this case, in the comparative analysis of runs, Zimbabwe played much better.

Sri Lanka again won the match form Zimbabwe.Sri Lanka is strong team as compared to Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is new cricket team .Still, Zimbabwe performed well and scored 208 runs, but the runs were too few to win. Zimbabwe one player preformed very well ,Ervine he made 82 run in 102 balls  and Sri Lanka side J Liyanage preformed very well he made 95 runs in 127 balls and bowling side Sri Lanka Theekshana preformed well he took 4 wickets by giving 31 run in 9 overs .

Sri Lanka is a much stronger team compared to Zimbabwe. Even then, Sri Lanka could not bat well against Zimbabwe's bowlers. I expected more responsible batting from the Sri Lankan batsmen. The batsmen of the team faced a big problem to collect only 208 runs. They lost 8 wickets. Sri Lanka could not have won this match if the lower order batsmen did not bat well. The performance of the Sri Lankan top order batsmen was very poor. Sri Lanka is leading the series 1-0. Sri Lanka is expected to win the series by winning the last ODI match.

[cozytrade]

In the last over, the Zimbabwean team gave 13 runs to the bowlers, if the Zimbabwean team had given less runs in the last over, it would have been a competitive match. Since only Sri Lanka team won by two wickets, Zimbabwe team must have performed very well in terms of bowling. Richard Ngarava of the Zimbabwe team, he collected 5 wickets, contributing the most to the bowling performance of the Zimbabwe team. Given only 32 runs in 10 overs, if all the other bowlers could have performed well, Zimbabwe would have won the second ODI match.

Zimbabwe was very close to win in yesterday ODI, they weren't able to put good runs on the board batting first. Craig Ervine scored 82 runs and there is no other batsman that was able to score 50. The result of yesterday game would be in favor of Zimbabwe if the have scored 230 runs. Janith Liyanage was man of the match in yesterday's game for his match winning 95 runs.

In yesterday's match, Zimbabwe were all out for just 208 runs. 209 runs which was a very low target in ODI format. But Sri Lanka had to bat for 49 overs to win the target of 209 runs, in the end Sri Lanka won by just 2 wickets. Really commendable Zimbabwean bowlers in yesterday's match, they bowled brilliantly. Sri Lanka batting line up at home was not expected to be this bad. But all the Sri Lankan batsmen performed very poorly. None other than Janith Liyanage gave a good performance. Zimbabwe played really well yesterday.

I agree with you, even though Zimbabwe lost the match against Sri Lanka yesterday, Zimbabwe played very well as a weak side. Despite playing at Sri Lanka's home ground and being a strong team, they did not play well in comparison. All the teams always play well at their home ground but the Sri Lankan team had to work hard to win against a weak team like Zimbabwe at their home ground. And playing the balls of the bowlers of the Zimbabwean team, the players of the strong Sri Lankan team were quite disoriented. Ngaravar's bowling of Zimbabwe team was able to blow away the batsmen of Sri Lankan team with ease. Sri Lanka won by two wickets in the second ODI yesterday, it was not an easy win for Sri Lanka.