Durham Champions of Zimbabwe

[mackembhoy]

A title I never expected to write. Although it's been on the cards all week.

Durham put on 229/6 and bowled Eagles out for 16 in the final.

Durham won all 5 group games comfortably too.

Won both FC games against Zimbabwe A on this pre season tour

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1766537549529378859

Durham beat Eagles, Durham won by 213 runs

DURH 229/6 vs EAGLE 16 - Durham won by 213 runs in Harare, ZIM T20 2024, March 09, 2024

www.espncricinfo.com

Apologies mods but due to the bizarre nature of this as well as margin of victory. Felt I'd start this thread.

 

[Silver Silva]

Bas De Leede played this game ! 59 with the bat and 1/0 , not a bad days work .

Don't think this will ever be topped in a final , what a crushing defeat.

 

[mackembhoy]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1766538371067756544

 

[Prince EWS]

16 is the 3rd lowest total in T20 cricket.

Weak effort from Durham to not have the record broken.

 

[Aidan11]

8/7 at one point. It looked at that stage as though they wouldn't make double figures.

I think there was just one boundary in the innings

 

[mackembhoy]

Weak effort from Durham to not have the record broken.

The only boundary hit just cleared the fielder otherwise would have been all out for 12.

Only lower totals are

Isle of Man 10 against Spain
Thunder 15 against Strikers(still mental that's there)

 

[Chubb]

While this is unusual it’s not really surprising.

Durham probably spend more on their first team than Zimbabwe Cricket spend on all levels of the game across the entire country. Of course they should crush Zim first class teams. Even Durham v the full Zimbabwe team would be close.

Good on Durham for going there I’m sure the Zimbos would have learned a lot from them.

 

[honestbharani]

I am gonna be Darlington later this month for a week, does this mean Durham is my team?

 

[TheJediBrah]

What am I missing here? Surely you would expect a county side to be a cut above Zimbabwe domestic teams

 

[morgieb]

What am I missing here? Surely you would expect a county side to be a cut above Zimbabwe domestic teams

Even taking that into account 200+ run wins at T20 level don't grow on trees.

 

[mackembhoy]

What am I missing here? Surely you would expect a county side to be a cut above Zimbabwe domestic teams

The first time a side has won another countries competition

Also the largest margin of victory in a game involving 2 sides that actually play FC cricket. As only previous higher margins victory involved Mongolia, Czech Republic and Turkey.

Was some good cricket played by the Zimbabwean sides. Durham under Campbell is a wholly different proposition to Durham of only 2 years ago who wouldn’t have played the way they have this time.

 

[TheJediBrah]

The first time a side has won another countries competition

Also the largest margin of victory in a game involving 2 sides that actually play FC cricket. As only previous higher margins victory involved Mongolia, Czech Republic and Turkey.

Was some good cricket played by the Zimbabwean sides. Durham under Campbell is a wholly different proposition to Durham of only 2 years ago who wouldn’t have played the way they have this time.

Yeah the margin is crazy I'll be honest, didn't even notice that at first

But come on it's not exactly a surprise that they would win the local Zimbabwe domestic comp. You'd be pretty disappointed if they didn't

 

[mackembhoy]

While this is unusual it’s not really surprising.

Durham probably spend more on their first team than Zimbabwe Cricket spend on all levels of the game across the entire country. Of course they should crush Zim first class teams. Even Durham v the full Zimbabwe team would be close.

Good on Durham for going there I’m sure the Zimbos would have learned a lot from them.

If the 2020 tour hadn‘t been cancelled then I think the games would have been more competitive.

Was plenty of good cricket from your lads. I liked the look of Ndlovu especially in the FC games.

 

[mackembhoy]

Yeah the margin is crazy I'll be honest, didn't even notice that at first

But come on it's not exactly a surprise that they would win the local Zimbabwe domestic comp. You'd be pretty disappointed if they didn't

Indeed I’m sharing this as a thread due to the unusual element. It’s our pre season after all!

Durham toured here last year and it started the rejuvenation we’ve seen under Campbell. Played an amazing brand of red ball cricket after a few appalling years under Franklin. We were still pretty rubbish in the white ball and I’m hoping this can have a similar catalyst as new signings had a really good time out there.

As I said above if we’d completed the 2020 tour it wouldn’t have been as fruitful. As we were not great then.

 

[Aidan11]

Durham's total was their second highest in T20 cricket.