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Zimbabwe v Rockstars | Tri-Series |Game 4| Harare| 3/6/10

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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Start time 0900 (0700 GMT)

Rohit Sharma drives through the off side, Zimbabwe v India, Tri-series, 1st ODI, Bulawayo, May 28, 2010
If Rohit Sharma scores a ton against Zimbabwe, he will equal the world record for centuries in consecutive innings © AFP
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Players/Officials: Hamilton Masakadza | Rohit Sharma
Matches: Zimbabwe v India at Harare
Series/Tournaments: India tour of Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe Triangular Series
Teams: India | Zimbabwe

The Big Picture

India went from the low of losing comprehensively to Zimbabwe to the high of winning similarly against Sri Lanka in two days. Zimbabwe travelled in the opposite direction with their huge loss to Sri Lanka. The upshot is, despite two unexpected results, the points table wears the expected look: Sri Lanka on top, Zimbabwe last. For their second match, which is potentially crucial to their chances of making the final, both India and Zimbabwe will want to bring their A game.

For the second leg of the tournament, play moves to Harare, which should offer clearer weather, giving Zimbabwe a more even playing field. Their army of spinners will like it, so will their batsmen who struggled when it was overcast in Bulawayo, but made merry when it was sunny. It is not quite the do-or-leave situation, but neither team will want to leave it until they face Sri Lanka, on paper the strongest team in the tournament.

Form guide (most recent first)
ZimbabweLWLLL
India WLLWW

Watch out for...

Albeit against lesser teams, Rohit Sharma is showing the will to fight and build an innings. Perhaps it is the added responsibility of no seniors around, but in a week he has taken his ODI average from 25.6 to 31.9, has nearly doubled his List A centuries count, and if he gets a century against Zimbabwe, will equal the world record for centuries in consecutive innings. He will want to carry this confidence and grit into matches against major teams too.

In both the matches, Hamilton Masakadza has got off to rollicking starts. In the first he failed to convert it into a big score, but the rest picked up the ball. In the second, he found himself out of partners. In his hometown, he will want to continue the starts and ideally finish the job himself.

Team news

Zimbabwe went in with an unchanged combination against Sri Lanka, and despite that loss in a truncated match they will want to retain the XI that smashed India in the first match.

Zimbabwe (possible) 1 Hamilton Masakadza, 2 Brendan Taylor (wk) 3 Charles Coventry, 4 Greg Lamb, 5 Craig Ervine, 6 Elton Chigumbura (capt), 7 Andy Blignaut, 8 Graeme Cremer, 9 Prosper Utseya, 10 Chris Mpofu, 11 Ray Price.

India went in with two specialist spinners because of a warm-up injury to R Vinay Kumar, but unwittingly seemed to have found the right combination. They should retain the bowlers, but the openers have presented a case for giving Naman Ojha a chance.

India (possible) 1 M Vijay, 2 Dinesh Karthik/Naman Ojha (wk), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Suresh Raina (capt), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Ashok Dinda, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 Umesh Yadav.

Stats and trivia

* Greg Lamb's batting strike-rate in ODIs is 42.35, and that provides a case for some flexibility when it comes to sending him at No. 3. It worked against India after Zimbabwe had a good start in a full 50-over innings, but against Sri Lanka, when they lost an early wicket in a 26-over contest, it backfired.

* Virat Kohli's career average of 51.61 is impressive enough, but in his last 13 matches he has been even better, scoring two centuries, five half-centuries and averaging 67.33.

Quotes
"Very disappointing. We did not play well, hopefully we will bounce back. Building an innings has been a problem - we lost four wickets in a short space of time."
Elton Chigumbura knows the area Zimbabwe need to work the most on

Sidharth Monga is a staff writer at Cricinfo
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comeon zim win this beat india at any cost .
 
India vs zimbabwe 4th ODI Harare

Looks like a good contest we have today.
 
Toss is going to happen,both captain ready for toss.go zim go.
 
zimbabwe won the toss and chose to field

Taibu is making a comeback today :)

best of luck zims
 
Zim teams looks like a batting army today.
Fielding first is good i think.
 
its a early morning start .. something will be for the new ball bowlers..

good they are chasing ..indian bowling hopefully will be expose again :)
 
Its good to see ZIM won the toss and chose to chase the target which raises their chance upto 50% now if the can get india out for 250 then they have a very strong chance of winning. first match they chase down 285 which was excellent stuff from them and they can do it again aswell today. hope they get rohit sharma wicket quickly as he is in good touch....if zim wins then who faces sri in the finals as both teams will have 2 points tehn...
 
Slow start for India, but no wickets down just yet.

And I believe each team plays other two, twice in the tournament and then 2 best teams go to final.
 
Somebody wake Indian team, this is not a test match!!
India 59/1 in 17 overs with RR: 3.5

Come on Zim, get a couple more wickets and keep the runs tight
 
Disaster for India
another run out

Sharma out now

They're in huge trouble now, especially with a long tail
 
180 all out.....hopefully
can zimbabwe make it 2 out of 2
 
Indias chance of causing an upset are being reduced here!
 
im at work streaming this match...n absolutely loving it..:)
 
Hahahaaaa choke de INDIA !!!

and some of their people thinks Vijay and Kohli are far more better batsman then Tamim? Arrogancy sometime good but not blindness, which some Indian supporter have blind arrogancy !!

My new favorite hero Jadeja is there, loving to see him playing test match :14: :14:
 
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LOL... Lets predict how much india will be all out..closest wins :D
i predict 174
 
Shaan said:
Hahahaaaa choke de INDIA !!!

and some of their people thinks Vijay and Kohli are far more better batsman then Tamim? Arrogancy sometime good but not blindness, which some Indian supporter have blind arrogancy !!

My new favorite hero Jadeja is there, loving to see him playing test match :14: :14:
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Virat kohli is a better ODI batsman than tamim. although he has played less cricket compared to tamim but he has already played some gud knocks for India and helped them to win matches.
Tamim is really growing in stature in test arena. But in shorter format, he is not very consistent yet.
 
India 175/8 after 45 overs...

They seem to be doing well :)
 
got a decent score ere...

ohja and mishra can do some damage
 
India finally managed 194 runs in 50 overs. Not too bad considering they were 7 down for 128. Zimbabwe failed to push for the final kill.

India's performance should be a big worry for the Indian fans. The team is full of IPL stars, the future of Indian cricket. The gap from Dravid Tendulkar era to Kohli Vijay era appears too big to undergo a smooth transition.
 
Zimbos beed to chased this sensibly and make sure they win the game!
 
Again: Useless Pathan you keep showing me in every 'international' match how shi* of a batsmen you are, why does this goof keep getting selected ?
 
shot taylor..........hope he gets a hundred today which he missed in the last game agnst bharat mahaan :D
 
indians are on the verge of another loss against ZIMSSSs


zim 38/0 in 8.3 overs

I think zim wants to finsih it off quickly to get a bonus point :)
 
if zim chase down the total before 40 overs then they will get the bonus points
 
This Brendan Taylor is one hell of a player - would get into most team squads with the way he is playing here.
 
mindless slogging said:
This Brendan Taylor is one hell of a player - would get into most team squads with the way he is playing here.
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England must be keeping an eye :) for another overseas playing in their national side
 
54/0 in 10 overs :)

victory with a bonus point will really dent india... qualifying for finals
 
66/0 in 12 overs..

some good clean hitting.. and square drives... by zims so far
 
well played taylor . . . . One good batsman . . . I dont know much about him. .can someone tell me more
 
adarsh_bang said:
well played taylor . . . . One good batsman . . . I dont know much about him. .can someone tell me more
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hes 24 ,,,palying his 100th Odi on his home ground today...has 1 hundred and 19 fifties including the 1 today....at an avg of 30
 
Thanks sakss bro ,seems he's just the kinda player zim needed.not too many wrong shots he's played today
 
woah, zimbabwe have really improved. They have beaten aus, pak, india all in the space of one month. Quite an achievement. :14: :14: :14:
 
a 10 wkt win on the cards....quite embarasing for india.s newcomers...this was their stage to perform...with the exception of rohit and jadega to sme extent the others have disapointed big time...specially the bowlers.
 
The title of this thread will be changed to "Rockstars" at the end of the game.. since India will lose. As usual.
 
All i would say after seeing India's performance against Zimb in the two ODI is that India's cricketing future is not very bright.
 
India are Zimbabwe's bunnies. Looking forward to another thread title change. :p
 
Paradox said:
The title of this thread will be changed to "Rockstars" at the end of the game.. since India will lose. As usual.
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It shouldn't be changed to rock stars , Thats a disrespect to the Indian cricket team instead it should be changed to "Titans" cause only that reflects how good they have been in this tournament
 
like alwayz.. they reacted

* pehchaaaaaan lain in shaklaon ko ... ye is mulk kay ghaddddaaaar hain* :D
 
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