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2005–06 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series

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The Videocon Tri-Series is a three-team one-day international cricket tournament taking place in Zimbabwe between the hosts Zimbabwe, India and New Zealand. It started on 24 August 2005 and will conclude with the final on 6 September 2005. Based on the ICC ODI Championship table, New Zealand should go in as favourites, being ranked fourth - while India are seventh and Zimbabwe ninth. Zimbabwe, however, have not beaten a team other than rock-bottom Bangladesh for 31 ODI matches, since November 2003. Their last series win against a team other than Bangladesh or Kenya was, intriguingly, against New Zealand, in the 2000-01 season. India are still without a tournament win since March 2004, coming off an 18-run defeat by Sri Lanka in the final of the 2005 Indian Oil Cup, while New Zealand were comprehensively defeated 5-0 by Australia at home in their last series. Before that, however, they were undefeated in six tournaments. The Supersub rule, which means that a player can be substituted for another at any time, but once the player is off he can not return, was introduced for this tournament.

Tournament structure

The sides will be playing each other in a double round robin, meaning that each side is to play four matches, for a total of six matches being played. A win is worth five points, and a loss zero - however, if the winning team has a run rate (i.e. runs hit per over) higher than 1.25 times that of the opponent, a bonus point is to be awarded to the winning side, if not it goes to the losing side. In the event of a tie or a no-result, each side is to be awarded three points. The top two teams on points goes through to the one-match final.

Schedule

Match details

1st ODI, Zimbabwe v New Zealand 24 August
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Lou Vincent and his New Zealand flayed a substandard Zimbabwe to all corners as they routed their way to the second highest score of all time in One-day international cricket. Despite the match being shortened to 44 overs a side following the discovery of a damp patch on the Bulawayo pitch, New Zealand hit runs right from the outset, and Zimbabwe did not take a wicket until the 28th over. By then, Vincent and Stephen Fleming had taken the score to 207 - already a fearsome total, and then you consider that 16 overs remained. No Zimbabwean bowler escaped the carnage, and it says something that debutant Anthony Ireland recorded the best bowling figures - still conceding 52 runs in his seven overs. Andy Blignaut, regarded as one of Zimbabwe's best bowlers, was dispatched for 96 runs - nine runs off the most expensive of all time. When the dust had settled, New Zealand had made 397 for 5 - one run short of Sri Lanka's nine-year-old record, which was set in 50 overs, and Brendon McCullum had equalled the fastest fifty for New Zealand, off 21 balls.

Zimbabwe, naturally, could not answer this, and they were up against a much stronger bowling attack than their own. The openers Brendan Taylor and Stuart Carlisle survived 14 overs, scoring 62 runs, but Chris Cairns and Andre Adams inspired a collapse to 123 for 6. At one point, Zimbabwe threatened to break the record of highest ODI defeat ever (256 runs), but 45 from Heath Streak, including two sixes, took them past 200. Overall, 205 all out wasn't such a bad score. The problem was that they had been so utterly demolished in the first innings - and two days later, they were to meet India's feared batting line-up, including people like Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. Cricinfo scorecard

Current table

Tri-Series Standings
Team M W L NR Pts NRR
Sri Lanka 1 1 0 0 6 +4.36
India 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies 1 0 1 0 0 -4.36

Reference

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