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West Indies v Zimbabwe: Champions Trophy
The second match of the Champions Trophy gets underway in about 5 hours. West Indies will be looking to match Sri Lanka's win from yesterday. Failure against Zimbabwe would make it tough for them to qualify out of this stage. But as the Windies have shown all too often, they're more than capable of losing matches that they should win (most recently at the DLF Cup in Malaysia).
That said, the Windies are playing like one of the better ODI teams in the world this year. They swept Zimbabwe earlier this year, beat India 4-1, and then put up a number of good performances in the DLF Cup against India and Australia.
Zimbabwe have been having a rough few years. They finally managed to beat Bangladesh 3-2 in a closely contested series a few months ago, but then were soundly beaten on their quick tour to South Africa last month, probably losing any momentum they were trying to build.
The second match of the Champions Trophy gets underway in about 5 hours. West Indies will be looking to match Sri Lanka's win from yesterday. Failure against Zimbabwe would make it tough for them to qualify out of this stage. But as the Windies have shown all too often, they're more than capable of losing matches that they should win (most recently at the DLF Cup in Malaysia).
That said, the Windies are playing like one of the better ODI teams in the world this year. They swept Zimbabwe earlier this year, beat India 4-1, and then put up a number of good performances in the DLF Cup against India and Australia.
Zimbabwe have been having a rough few years. They finally managed to beat Bangladesh 3-2 in a closely contested series a few months ago, but then were soundly beaten on their quick tour to South Africa last month, probably losing any momentum they were trying to build.