The Surfer
August 9, 2011
Posted on 08/09/2011 in in Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 2011
I've had the soft label before - Kyle Jarvis

Zimbabwe bowler Kyle Jarvis talks to Cricket365's Tristan Holme about his dad Malcolm (who played in Zimbabwe's debut Test), his injury ordeal and the effect Tamim Iqbal's comments on the penultimate day of the Harare Test had on his team.

Kyle Jarvis was just three-years-old at the time so he was too young to remember watching his father play in Zimbabwe's first Test, but that doesn't mean he hasn't heard all about it. "Mostly he's always telling me about how he would have had Zimbabwe's first Test wicket but for a dropped catch. And then he'll chirp that one day maybe I'll be as quick as he was."
"... I was struggling to bowl and everyone just said, 'Ah you're being soft. Come on, just bowl through it'. But it was in fact a stress fracture." The mental toughness required to come back from the injury has stood him in good stead ... "I spent a lot of time lying down watching TV, which was what I had to do. It was basically seven months with the feet up, it was pretty terrible to just watch your mates play on TV."

The Daily Star takes a tongue-in-cheek look at Bangladesh's loss to Zimbabwe in the first Test.


August 5, 2011
Posted on 08/05/2011 in in Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 2011
Minnows swimming against the tide

The cricketing world's collective eye may be trained on the England-India series, but an equally important series is underway in Harare. The Wall Street Journal's Richard Lord outlines the importance of the Zimbabwe-Bangladesh one-off Test, given the routine difficulties faced by Test cricket's also-rans.

Limited-overs internationals expose players to quality opposition, but not in a way that equips them for the challenges of a five-day game. This Zimbabwe side has been quite competitive at One-Day International level, but that's largely because of its battery of slow bowlers; now the team finds itself facing a format where a line-up of solid seam bowlers, something it notably lacks, is the foundation of most strong outfits. Bangladesh, likewise, play far more limited-overs than Test cricket, and again its spinners have been its most potent weapons, thanks to the country's low and slow home pitches. Away from home, particularly in Tests, Bangladesh's bowlers have consistently struggled.


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