Liam Brickhill

Plays of the day from the second ODI between Zimbabwe and India in Harare

Zimbabwe's four-run loss in the first ODI suggests the hosts will continue to competitive against an Indian side missing its senior players

Stuart Binny said he got the opportunity to spend some time in the middle against Zimbabwe, something he had not had in his previous ten ODIs

If Zimbabwe have an Achilles heel, it's their inability to maintain sustained pressure once they've assumed a position of dominance over the opposition. In this match, India fought harder for that vital inch

Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura was disappointed after Zimbabwe failed to chase down a target of 256 against India in Harare, losing by a narrow margin of four runs

Plays of the day from the first ODI between Zimbabwe and India in Harare

India are without many seniors in the side which will bring the teams together a little closer in what could be a competitive series

India have put the Bangladesh defeat behind them and are concentrating on playing to their strengths said stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane

Second-string or not, India's visit will fill stadiums and that is simply the start of a pleasantly fuller season

Two players, one black, one white, risked their lives and careers by wearing black armbands to protest injustice

Player strikes, defeats against fellow minnows, and mountains of debt for the board marked another grim year

Zimbabwe Cricket's mounting debt problems came to a head on Tuesday afternoon, when the deputy sheriff in Harare impounded its Outside Broadcast van, as well as vehicles used by managing director Wilfred Mukondiwa and selector Givemore Makoni

Once he had the ball reversing, Dale Steyn showed why he is the world's finest bowler

George Bailey rued the inability of his batsmen to weather the Dale Steyn storm after Australia's six-wicket defeat to South Africa in the final of the Zimbabwean tri-series

George Bailey, Australia's stand-in captain, believes that the South Africa's in-form batsman Faf du Plessis did not give "many clues as to how to get him out"

South Africa captain AB de Villiers believes that Faf du Plessis is in the form of his international career, after the batsman struck his third hundred of the series to power South Africa into the final

Zimbabwe didn't have a realistic chance of qualifying for the final, but they could have beaten South Africa if Brendan Taylor had more support at the other end, Elton Chigumbura has said

Russell Domingo suggested that there is unlikely to be any experimentation in the South African line-up in their final group game against Zimbabwe

Mitchell Marsh said that he had been working on his bowling "to get it up to a great level", after his all-round display in Harare helped Australia seal a place in the tri-series final with a 62-run win against South Africa

Elton Chigumbura has said that Prosper Utseya's positivity with the bat played a big part in Zimbabwe's historic win against Australia