Not really, scotland beat zimboks comfortably recently, slow low turning pitches are zimboks speciality with their army of spinners
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*Official* Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka 2017
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Prince EWS
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The weird thing about how effective they were in this series is the fact that most of them aren't even real spinners. Cremer is a proper bowler and it'd be fair to call Williams a proper allrounder, but Raza and Waller (especially remodelled Waller) are just batsmen who bowl darts. Whenever I got to catch a bit of this series Zimbabwe were batting so I didn't actually see them bowl here, but you'd think if fringe Sri Lankan batsmen would be comfortable against anything, it'd be batsmen pretending to be spinners on slow turning wickets. And yet Raza especially completely dominated.
Bahseph
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Yeah on pitches like this in LO games Zimbabwe are always competitive. I don't see that being the case in Tests because their premier spinner, Cremer, whilst always a wicket taking threat, tends to go for runs. I'm not even sure Waller was bowling proper offspin. Looked like cutters ala Gunartne to me.
OverratedSanity
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Wow, well done Zimbos.
weldone
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Yes Raza's bowling is like Raina's. I haven't seen Waller bowl ever - so can't comment.
SL batting is just not good enough. Mathews is the only one who is International class. The Champions Trophy run chase against India hasn't convinced me otherwise.
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Prince EWS
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Waller's bowling history is interesting. As a youth cricketer he was primarily a bowler, but by the time he got to First Class cricket he was barely bowling at all. He started taking it more seriously for a few months and had a meteoric rise to the point where he was selected as a bowling allrounder for a couple of Tests, and even did okay in that role, but then he was suspended from bowling for chucking. He just bowls darts now since the remodelling; it'd probably be more accurate to say he bowls off cutters than actual off breaks these days, as Bahseph pointed out.
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CricAddict
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Congrats, Zimbos. Will this defeat inspire or crush SL when they face India? At the moment, they are being crushed by their media, mainly due to some selection errors like Chandimal and Lakmal.
morgieb
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Moved to Canada IIRC.
TheJediBrah
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Been hanging out too much with his brother Krystal
Not sure you know what you're talking about at all
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quincywagstaff
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How high does this rank in terms of series victories (in any format) for Zimbabwe? At a guess this would be in the top half-dozen at least.
Prince EWS
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It'd be up there. In terms of away series wins (excluding 1-0 smash-and-grabs) against top eight sides, this is only the second time Zimbabwe have ever done this.
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jimmy101
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Just sayin' a win in Sri Lanka is no easy feat. Australia's loss in SL last year is still fresh in my memory, not having a dig at them, just happy for the ZimJims
TheJediBrah
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What I was referring to was the fact that this was an ODI series. Last year Australia won the ODI series comfortably. It was the Tests where they embarrassed themselves.
Basically just refuting the "succeed where Australia failed" point, which is just false.
This musakadza is new, you're talking about mazakadza I think