Showing posts with label Australia vs Zimbabwe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia vs Zimbabwe. Show all posts

February 21, 2011

Australia Confident to Win Against Zimbabwe

This is the first world cup that Australia didn’t come with a clear favorite.  Yet Ricky Ponting‘s squad has enough weapons to blow  Zimbabwe out and make a very confident start.The team will obviously take inspiration from their world cup performance.Moreover Zimbabwe is not a strong opponent to them.They are still one of the best ODI squads.They have proved it picking a 6-1 win over England though they lost the Ashes series just before the ODI series to England.They also have a record of winning 23 consecutive world cup matches since 1999. They defeated South Africa by 7 wickets in the warm up match though lost to India by 38 runs.

But the Zimbabwe team is some what different than the team Australia defeated in 3-0 in 2004 though some of the players of that team will play.The team will be spirited from the memory of two wins against Australia in T20 World Cup 2007 and in a warm up match in T20 world Cup 2010 and also from the memory of the famous win in 1983 at Trent Bridge.Moreover Zimbabwe have a set of emerging stars in their team. So if Australia doesn’t play their best Zimbabwe can make the match very competitive.

The match will be held in Ahmedabad and Start at 14:30 local time (09:00 GMT)

SOURCE: ESPN CRICINFO

September 12, 2007

Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Australia vs Lee’s comments

For Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007, Brett Lee is an important man for Australia team. He did not attend in the ICC Championship for his injury. With some media Lee told some lacking of his team openly. On Wed 12 Australia vs Zimbabwe at Cape Town and Fri 14 Australia vs England at Cape Town.

These comments are from 24 news "We aren't the most experienced team and there will be a bit of pressure on us, but we have to try and get into the game as quickly as possible and think on our feet, and learn as soon as we possibly can," Lee said.

"Twenty20 is a game we don't really have a lot of experience in and it's going to be a major challenge for us.

"It's the team that works out what's going on quicker than their opponents that will take out the championship."

"I think if you've got a guy who can bowl genuine pace it's an advantage."

I think Lee’s frankly words did not mean that they are weak.


Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Australia vs Zimbabwe, Kenya vs New Zealand and Pakistan vs Scotland

On 12 September 2007, three matches will be played in Cape Town and Durban. The teams are Australia vs Zimbabwe, Kenya vs New Zealand and Pakistan vs Scotland. Here is the time table below. I have designed the time table according to the local time of GMT, South Africa, India Bangladesh and Pakistan. I think you will be benefited with this.

12 Sep 2007 Australia vs Zimbabwe

4th Match Group Stage, Group B, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 16:00 GMT (21:30 IST)

12 Sep 2007 Kenya vs New Zealand

2nd Match Group Stage, Group C, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 08:00 GMT (13:30 IST)

12 Sep 2007 Pakistan vs Scotland

3rd Match Group Stage, Group D, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 12:00 GMT (17:30 IST)

Group B

Date

Match

Local

GMT

PST

IST

BST

Wed 12

Australia vs Zimbabwe
at Cape Town

18:00

16:00

21:00

21:30

22:00

Group C

Date

Match

Local

GMT

PST

IST

BST

Wed 12

New Zealand vs Kenya
at Durban

10:00

08:00

13:00

13:30

14:00

Group D

Date

Match

Local

GMT

PST

IST

BST

Wed 12

Pakistan vs Scotland
at Durban

14:00

12:00

17:00

17:30

18:00