Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 02:30:07 AM

Quote from: LDL on July 28, 2025, 11:10:17 PM

This Test will also be a one-sided match because you can't imagine New Zealand and Zimbabwe as a balanced team in cricket. New Zealand is a completely balanced team at the moment, especially in T20, ODI and Test. In the recently concluded tri-series, New Zealand became the champions while Zimbabwe failed to win a single match. Zimbabwe have played many cricket matches this year and have lost every match. But one important thing is that Zimbabwe's game has improved and even though they could not win, they have tried to compete a bit. Zimbabwe may not be able to win this test match but they can compete with New Zealand.

This is getting really irritating. Zimbabwe is getting so many matches against strong teams lately, while the other two teams in their division (Ireland and Afghanistan) are hardly getting any matches. And the less talked about the associate teams such as Scotland, Netherlands, Namibia and Nepal, that much better. Match after match, Zimbabwe is suffering very heavy defeats with no scope of improvement. These matches are useful only for improving the personal stats of the players in opposing teams.

Yes, Afghanistan is a much better team than Zimbabwe. Even they are so good that they could beat Zimbabwe, West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan very easily. They may also give a tough time to the big three teams, but sadly I don't see them playing any international series lately. We are witnessing one-sided matches where West Indies and Zimbabwe are losing matches without making any efforts, and this decreases the viewers' interest when they already know who is going to win.

People will be more interested in watching matches between Afghanistan and Ireland compared to matches between New Zealand vs Zimbabwe or Australia vs West Indies.