Zimbabwe craving for more Test matches
||CF Correspondent||
Not so often that they get the chance to play Test match, for which they always lament but after that superlative performance against Bangladesh in a two-match Test series in which they forced the visitors to share the trophy, Zimbabwe expected to have more matches under the belt.
This two-match Test series was their first in this year and in this decade they played just 24 matches, unarguably lowest amongst the Test nation.
“I haven’t really had a look, but I think we only have one series between now and the next six months, and that’s some games against India,” Hamilton Masakadza, the captain of Zimbabwe said.
“That’s the only thing that’s on the radar. I know the board is trying to organise some more games for us, but I don’t know how far along that has gone. That will be the next challenge for us. It’s not ideal to be waiting this long before play, but we have to take that as it is.”
Masakadza expected that the world would notice their performance against Bangladesh even though they couldn’t win the series.
“With Test cricket, on a fifth day wicket, it’s always going to be a bit of both. There’s going to be some bad shots in there, and some unplayable balls as well on a last day wicket. It was always going to be really hard to bat out the day, but guys still came out and applied themselves, guys still came out and tried really hard,” he said.
“It didn’t work out in the end, but I can’t fault the endeavour from the boys. I’m really proud of the efforts that they put in throughout this game. We were behind very early, but guys didn’t give up and didn’t throw the towel in. They kept fighting and they fought throughout the whole game. I was really happy with that.”
