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Quote from: Popkon6 on Today at 07:28:42 AM

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.