Zimbabwe vs WI vs SL ODI tri-series, Nov 14-27

[mikesiva]

Kraigg out for 16 from 33. That might actually be good for our run chase.

Hope run out for 25.

Lewis gets his century off just 92 balls. Well played!

Carter run out for six. They are tumbling at the other end.

[dan08]

Lewis's highest score in professional cricket.

[andy]

isnt there anyone else who can open instead of Kraigg? Rate him highly in tests, but he is simply too slow in Odis'....never shows any intent to ever up the ante..

[mikesiva]

Lewis's highest score in professional cricket.

Gone for 148...three run outs in the innings. Powell gone for 10, too.

Carlos out for 19, Nurse out for two....

Benn, six and out.

[dan08]

SL win by 1 run! They did their best to lose it. Still no 300+ chase by WI.

[mikesiva]

Holder finished on 45 not out, but we lost by one run.

A good attempt by some of the batsmen. It's a pity the bowlers didn't do their jobs.

isnt there anyone else who can open instead of Kraigg? Rate him highly in tests, but he is simply too slow in Odis'....never shows any intent to ever up the ante..

I agree...let Kraigg focus on Tests alone.

There are others who can do his job in ODIs.

[mikesiva]

Holder strikes! Chibhabha out for nine.

Bishoo gets the wicket of Mazakadza for 20....two down.

Bishoo again! Chari out for 19...it makes you wonder why the selectors persisted with Benn for so long.

Three wickets for Nurse, the master-offspinner...you can't get him out of the team now.

Bishoo gets his third...seven down.

Holder comes back to take his second...eight down.

Sikander Raza gets his half-century....

Zimbabwe put on 218-8 after 49 overs. That unbeaten ninth wicket partnership put on 91....

[mikesiva]

Both openers out to Chisiro....Charles for a duck and Lewis for nine.

Now, all Hope is lost...Shai goes for 14.

Kraigg run out for 24 off 45. That might actually be good for us.

Powell out for six. ..five down.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Still a chance while these two are together. Holder won't throw it away.

[mikesiva]

4.00pm Umpires are having a chat. West Indies are five runs behind on DL method. The covers are coming on. Players are going off. If play ends as things stand, Zimbabwe will meet Sri Lanka in the final. There's concern in the West Indies camp. They're looking up to the heavens. They will not just need the rain to relent, but also hope that the light gets better. It's been dark and gloomy. There are no floodlights here either. Nervous wait. The rain has gotten heavier. All the covers are coming on. The main square has been covered.

[The Professor]

Yet again West Indies have lost concentration at the wring point of the game and the wrong point in the series.

[mikesiva]

Zimbabwe bowled out for 160 in 377 overs, three wickets each for Vandersay and Gunaratne...that's how you finish off the tail.

[The Professor]

Tharanga tops off what has been a very competent two months from him.

Odds on he'll be inexplicably dropped by this time next year.