|| CF Correspondent ||

The 3-0 result might look humiliating but it probably couldn’t tell the tale of the ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in which the latter gave the hosts some torrid period but still denied a victory because of their incompetence to finish the game well.

Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza now is keen to stop the rut as he emphasized on signing off the game well in a bid to deny Bangladesh making the Test series a one-way traffic also.

“For a start, we are looking to improve on driving the nail,” Masakadza said. “We got ourselves into excellent positions in couple of the ODIs but we couldn’t pull through so the talk around the change room has been about pushing through those positions and driving the nail in.”

The Southern African nation didn’t win a Test match since their victory against Pakistan at Harare in 2013. Since then they played on 12 matches. Now it is to see whether they could turn the ‘unlucky 13’ to ‘lucky 13’.

“We would like to play a lot more Test cricket but we don’t so it is easier to motivate the guys. It is easy to just tell them to go out there and put everything. We don’t get these opportunities often. We have to take this opportunity with both hands, and just go and play our best cricket. We have a long break before our next Test series so it is even more motivation to put in as much as possible now, to take this opportunity.”