You are saying it is difficult for Zimbabwe to chase this score, i would say it is close to impossible for them. Although they had a decent start to the batting in the 2nd innings with Takudzwanashe Kaitano still batting on 34, but they still trail by 405 runs. It is almost impossible for them to first level the score and then take the lead with just 9 wickets in hand.
It is just a matter of how long the Zimbabwe team can survive. Sean Williams had a good innings in the last innings and also some batting were shown by the middle order. It would be interesting to see how Zimbabwe starts the game tomorrow.
After seeing poor batting of Zimbabwe in first innings its now clear that they won't be able to avoid an innings defeat. Zimbabwe score is 51/1 in second innings while in first innings they lost four wickets when score was 51 runs. If Sean Williams has not scored 83 runs in first innings then Zimbabwe won't be able to score even 100 runs in first innings. Zimbabwe batsmen must try to stay on pitch and try to score as many runs as possible to boost their confidence against top test teams. This series is going to be 2-0 and SA unlucky that this series is not part of WTC.
Zimbabwe team performed very badly in the first innings, mainly South Africa batsman Mulder scored 367 runs alone. Zimbabwe team is not able to keep wickets, Zimbabwe team is going to lose this match safely. In the second innings, Zimbabwe team lost 1 wicket for 51 runs, so there is a possibility of losing more wickets.
If we observe in the first innings of Zimbabwe team, then they started losing wickets quickly, if the same situation happens in the second innings, then the players of Zimbabwe team will definitely be forced to lose by a huge margin. Due to losing wickets, Zimbabwe team is only facing huge pressure, due to which Zimbabwe team lacks patient batsmen.
For the supporter of the Zimbabwe team, I think that Zimbabwe is not to win the game, that is 100 percent true but they could come closer, they have to make partnership here as we have seen that Takudzwanashe Kaitano played at 34 off 51 balls that is good performance especially as compare to the previous innings where he score less than 10 runs.
He is out early so let's see what is going to be happen further, just hopping that at least they come close and it would be so great and big achievement even if they just come to lead and that is it, still losing the game in that condition but it made them feel motivate and confident for the further games against low teams.