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Heath Streak

Ellina Mhlanga, Harare Bureau
ZIMBABWE cricket coach Heath Streak is hopeful his side will rediscover their form when they get back into action next week in a triangular One Day International series in Bangladesh.

The series will feature the hosts and Sri Lanka.

The Chevrons will face Bangladesh in the first match on January 15, before they take on Sri Lanka two days later.

After playing Sri Lanka again on January 21, Zimbabwe will then have a day’s rest before dating Bangladesh for the second time.

The final is scheduled for January 27.

All the matches will be day-night games and will be played at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.

As the Chevrons prepared to leave Harare today, Streak is hoping his charges can rediscover the kind of form that saw them securing an historic ODI series win over Sri Lanka last July.

It was Zimbabwe’s first major overseas One-day series victory since 2001.

“In terms of our expectations obviously having not played for a bit hopefully we can get into the swing of playing international cricket pretty quickly. And obviously we know we are highly competitive in the One Day format and I hope we can get back to how we played against Sri Lanka pretty quickly.

“It’s been six months since we played ODI cricket, so I am hoping the guys can get back into the form that we ended as quickly as possible.

“Our preparations there haven’t seen many games…. I would say there haven’t been any cricket matches being played. So we have been in camp just practising, last week and this week, probably we depart tomorrow (today),” said Streak.

Streak will be leading a squad of 15 players for the triangular series that includes regulars – captain Graeme Cremer, Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor, Sikandar Raza, Craig Ervine, Christopher Mpofu and Kyle Jarvis.

Zimbabwe Squad
Hamilton Masakadza, Solomon Mire, Craig Ervine, Brendan Taylor, Sikandar Raza, Peter Moor, Malcolm Waller, Graeme Cremer (captain), Ryan Murray, Tendai Chisoro, Brandon Mavuta, Blessing Muzarabani, Christopher Mpofu, Tendai Chatara, Kyle Jarvis.