Middle-overs blues with bat and ball

10-37 Zimbabwe's win-loss record in World Cup matches. Eleven teams have a better win-loss ratio, including Kenya and Ireland. Zimbabwe won their very first World Cup match - against Australia in 1983 - but then lost their next 18 games, breaking that losing streak against England in 1992. Their last win against one of the top teams was in the 1999 World Cup, when they beat South Africa by 48 runs. That was also their best World Cup, when they won three matches, including one against India.

4 The number of centuries by Zimbabwean batsmen in World Cup matches. The highest of them is Craig Wishart's unbeaten 172 against Namibia in 2003, which is also the sixth-highest individual score in a World Cup game.

2 Number of times Zimbabwe have beaten any of the top eight teams in ODIs over the last two years (since the beginning of 2013) - Pakistan by seven wickets in 2013, and Australia in 2014. Overall they have a 6-24 win-loss record in ODIs during this period, with their other wins coming against Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

955 Hamilton Masakadza's aggregate in ODIs since the beginning of 2013, the highest among all Zimbabweans. He is 242 runs ahead of the next best, Brendan Taylor's 713, though both played the same number of innings.

23.04 Zimbabwe's batting average in the middle overs (10.1 to 40) of ODIs since January 2013, the lowest among all teams. They lose, on average, 5.5 wickets per innings in the middle overs. India and South Africa lose about 3.5 wickets in these overs, while for Australia the average is 3.75 and for Sri Lanka 3.90; Pakistan lose 4.25 wickets, on average, in the middle overs, and Bangladesh 4.32.

46.65 Zimbabwe's bowling average in the middle overs in these ODIs, which is poorer than all teams except Canada (57.38). Zimbabwean bowlers average three wickets per innings in the middle overs, compared to 4.8 for South Africa, 4.5 for Bangladesh and 4.1 for Australia.

8.21 Zimbabwe's economy rate in the last ten overs in ODIs in the last couple of years, the worst among all teams. In 24 innings they've conceded 129 fours and 66 sixes, at an average of a four or a six every seven balls.

27 Wickets that Tendai Chatara has taken in the last couple of years (which is also the duration of his entire ODI career). He is the top wicket-taker in ODIs for Zimbabwe during this period.

5 Number of players in the Zimbabwean squad who haven't played a World Cup game - Masakadza, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Solomon Mire, Sikandar Raza, and Tendai Chatara. West Indies is the only team with fewer players who haven't played a World Cup game (4).