Alan Butcher critical of Zimbabwe’s batting tactics – Cricket News Update
Zimbabwean Coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alan-Raymond-Butcher-c42769, feels that the defeat suffered in the 2nd One Day International was due to his team inability to score quickly.
The hosts lost the match by a whopping margin of 10 wickets, with Pakistani openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Farhat-c64218, remaining unbeaten, scoring a commendable century and a half-century respectively.
This gave the visitors a 2-0 lead in the three-match series, where the coach felt that the team must be brave enough to ensure that they score totals which are not easily chased.
"I still feel that the side don't necessarily believe in themselves as much as they should. We need to be braver if we are going to post totals that win matches," said Alan.
The hosts started off slowly, losing two top-order batsmen at the score of 36, having consumed almost 14 overs.
It then took skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/H-Masakadza-c1517 to muster a 104-run partnership for the 3rd wicket, but this came at the expense of the duo taking more than 24 overs.
This meant that the team could only manage 225 in their limited overs, which was never going to be enough.
"Perhaps we were a bit inflexible in the way we tried to play," Butcher said. "We were trying to hit the ball hard instead of deflect it and with the ball moving around a bit, we didn't score enough runs in the third man and fine leg area which just dried
up our scoring rate and made it easy for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 to bowl to us."
He further added that it is important for the development of the side that they start pacing their innings in order to challenge the opposition.
The team will play the 3rd and final match at Harare on the 14th before the team locks horns in two T20 matches to round off the tour.
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