TAMIM OUT OF ENCOUNTER, SA IS IN IT TO WIN IT

  After Hamilton Masakadza's half-century blitz and a superb all-round performance with the ball afforded Zimbabwe a eleven run victory over Bangladesh in the first match of the T20 tri-series at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday.

Bangladesh have a tough task tomorrow as they face South Africa at the same venue. The Tigers will be without star batsman Tamim Iqbal the opener, who has been ruled out of Tuesday's Twenty20 triangular match,  due to a thigh injury he picked up in the tournament's opening game. Anamul Haque, the 19-year-old Khulna batsman, will be his replacement.

"Yes, I injured my quads, the physio says it's a grade-one tear. So I'm definitely not playing tomorrow's game," Tamim told OFF THE CREASE. "It is still a 50-50 call whether I will play the next game, because I don't want to aggravate the injury. But I will definately be staying here for the rest of the series."

Tamim endured the grade-one tear on his left quadriceps while batting against the hosts on Sunday, and he is reported to have had a similar injury earlier this  month.

MEANWHILE

Former Mountaineers coach Allan Donald now South Africa's bowling coach  has promised an entertaining game of cricket in tomorrow's encounter."We have come here to win it and also enjoy the game. l am very confident we will do well although for us this for preperatory purposes for our up coming tours and the T20 World Cup later on this year" he said.

The  Hashim Amla captained South African team has however been tight lipped on their final eleven for tomorrow's encounter. "We obviously have set goals here and there but we want to try by all means possible to observe some individuals in the team. We also are bearing in mind that the team will be going for the T20 World Cup" Donald added

The match starts at 12:45 at Harare Sports Club tomorrow morning.