Australian pacers Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, and Mitchell Johnson disgrace Zimbabwe in ICC World Cup 2011 match
Zimbabwe’s batsmen stood no chance against the feisty bowlers of the Australian cricket team in an exhilarating ICC World Cup match that was witnessed yesterday.
Zimbabwe trailed along conservatively, till they were all bowled out for a scanty score of 171 that was far below the target set by the Australians.
The proficient players of Zimbabwe’s team had no answer to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s pace attack that left them crippled. Australian team captain, Ricky Ponting, had previously claimed with great certainty that the team’s pace attack was their strength and posed immense
threat to any competitors, who stood between them and their 24th successive World Cup match victory.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045’s spinners and fielders gave the contenders a tough time for almost half the match but eventually the positions reversed and soon Zimbabwe drew back from a challenging stance.
Brendan Taylor, Charles Coventry and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tatenda-Taibu-c92882 put up a competitive show, playing some brilliant shots, but failed to stand their ground in the face of swift bowling offered by the Australian pace bowlers.
The speedy trio of Lee, Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait bowled aggressively, causing all sorts of problems for the Zimbabweans.
Coventry was shaky when it came to playing shorter balls, and was caught out on a delivery by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 got out owing to a fast delivery by Tait, and wickets continued to fall at a steady pace. The entire team was bowled out for 171 in 46.2 overs.
"We didn't really play [the fast bowlers] as well as we might have done. We don't see too much of that sort of pace in Zimbabwe, so it's something we're going to have to get used to if we're going to compete at the top level of international cricket", said
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Butcher-c48849, coach to Zimbabwe’s team.
Mitchell Johnson (4-19 from 9.2 overs) and Brett Lee (1-34 off eight), who had made a confident come-back, had their supporters swooning with joy at the spell-binding fast bowling they exhibited.
Shaun Tait bowled fiercely, finishing with figures of 2-34 off nine, leaving the batsmen desperate for runs and ducking to avoid bouncers.
"If we get those three up and running and bowling as well as they can, then I don't care what team we're playing against or what conditions we're playing in, that intimidation is going to be there", claimed the confident captain, Ponting, applauding his
three pace bowlers.
Ponting established that keeping wickets was a plan well-devised, and his team would pursue the same strategy for the forthcoming matches of the world cup.
Despite their astounding performance on the bowling front, the defending champions were not oblivious of the fact that they need to perk up their game for the impending matches.
They need to improve their batting capabilities mainly against spin bowling. In the early part of the game against Zimbabwe, the Australian team struggled with the bat against the spin deliveries of Ray http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Prosper-Utseya-c82728 and Graeme Cremer, scoring a
paltry 53 runs off 15 overs.
Australia made a good start in their opening match hence the supporters of the Australian cricket team anticipate an equally striking performance from them in the future matches of the tournament.
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