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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > India in Australia 2003-04 > Zimbabwe still looking for that elusive win 21.30 IST 02nd Feb 2004 By IndiaExpress Bureau 
Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak is keen to grab at least one win for his team and he is hoping it would come in the final engagement of their Australian campaign -- a one-day Tri-series game against India in Perth on Tuesday."Our bowling has been consistent and we have had good fielding. Our last few games have been fantastic and I hope we are over the line tomorrow," Streak said ahead of tomorrow's match. Indians were blown away at the pace-friendly WACA ground which saw Brett Lee and company bowl them out for 203 and Streak was hoping for a repeat of the story tomorrow. "Their batsmen struggled but you can't take it for granted it would happen tomorrow. The batsmen would learn to make adjustments -- if you can do that, it could be a good wicket to bat on," he said. "A lot of times, not enough credit is given to bowlers. There was some swing and movement and if you take those early wickets there would be pressure on batsmen coming in after that," said Streak. The captain also bemoaned the absence of two of his key players because of injuries -- Craig Wishart and Mark Vermeulen. "We lost a key batsman in Craig Wishart and then Vermuelen was injured. It made our top order struggle for runs," Streak said. "But we have had a good fightback in the last few games. Our young bowling attack has developed here and we continue to develop and improve as bowlers. Hopefully, we would have sides which could bowl out teams in Tests as well." Streak said it has been fantastic to watch the Indians play their cricket the way they did this summer in all aspects of the game. "They have been fantastic. It's been a tough summer but very rewarding for world cricket. The two are definitely now the best sides in the world," he said. Zimbabwe go back home but there would hardly be any rest. They have an important series coming up against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Australia and Streak said it would keep his boys busy at least till June. "We have our schedule full. It would keep us busy till June. We would have played a lot of cricket by then," he said. Zimbabwe have so far played seven games in the series and won nothing though they did come pretty close to winning at least two of their matches against India at Brisbane and Adelaide before losing by 24 and three runs respectively. Squads (from): India: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Rohan Gavaskar, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Murali Kartik, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Sanjay Bangar (12th man). Zimbabwe: Heath Streak (captain), Grant Flower, Tatenda Taibu, Blessing Mahwire, Stuart Carlisle, Sean Ervine, Dion Ebrahim, Vusi Sibanda, Andy Blignaut, Ray Price, Douglas Hondo, Travis Friend (12th man). in-depth coverage > India in Australia 2003-04 > |
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