da 888casino： Mark Ramprakash could find himself in a reluctant role as England’s secondspinner as they try to improve on their opening one-day international success over Zimbabwe
CricInfo04-Oct-2001Mark Ramprakash could find himself in a reluctant role as England’s secondspinner as they try to improve on their opening one-day international success over Zimbabwe.Yesterday’s five-wicket victory has extended Zimbabwe’s run of consecutive defeats, as well as earning England their first victory in 11.The win was set up by a superb 73 off just 77 balls from Nasser Hussain. his fourth 50 in his last six one-day international appearances for England, and additional contributions from an inexperienced line-up including four debutants.Ramprakash has bowled only two overs in his previous 13 one-day international appearances but took three for 28 to restrict Zimbabwe to a total of 206.Mark doesn’t like bowling that much and I have to drag him to the creasesometimes,” said Hussain. “He spins it and on a wicket like that you needyour variation, you need someone to come on and do things like that.”I was pleased with the way he bowled, batted and fielding. He’s a goodall-round cricketer which is what we’re looking for.”Ramprakash was brought on by Hussain for the finale of Zimbabwe’s innings, a job which would normally be done by a fast bowler in England.”This is a difficult place to play cricket, it’s different to what we’re usedto and you have to bowl a lot of cutters and slower balls and hit over the topwhen you bat,” explained Hussain.”It’s not just hitting through the line like you can at the Oval, it’sdifferent cricket and I was very pleased with the way we adapted.”On this wicket in particular, you have to think on your feet a bit and allof a sudden I was bowling Ramprakash at the death and when would you do that inEngland?”For a young side to come out here, with four players on debut, to a placewhere we lost 3-0 with a much more experienced side and to play the way we didwas very pleasing.”We’ve got plenty of things to work on, but we’re 1-0 up in a five-matchseries after we’ve lost 11 on the bounce and against a side who we’ve lost tobefore, to keep them down was very important.”