Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

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Deuce Bigolo
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Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

Post by Deuce Bigolo »

Another publicity stunt or just the nature of 20/20 cricket?

A group of full time professionals couldn't possibly lose to a bunch of semi-professionals if they were switched on or even half interested

ATS
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Re: Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

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Now it's end of the road for the West Indies - just been beaten
by Bangladesh. England also had bad start against Zimbabwe
Sam Slater
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Re: Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

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I think it's more to do with the amount of overs. A bad start in the 50 over game can be clawed back with the talent Australia -and other good teams- have.

Early wickets, and a bad start in Twenty20 means there's not enough overs left to recover - unless you've good all rounders and a very short tail.

[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]
Trumpton
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Re: Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

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We can only hope that the ugly spector of match-fixing has not raised it's head in this tournament.

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Re: Cricket...Zimbabwe beats Australia by 5 wickets

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England had a comfortable win over Zimbabwe despite dropping a couple of sitters.

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