Return of the heartbreakers

One year after killing Zimbabwe’s World Cup dream, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) cricket team return to the scene of Zimbabwe’s destruction, Harare Sports Club, hoping to inflict more pain by taking the four-match one-day international (ODI) series starting tomorrow.

The UAE visit is not one of the big tours local cricket fans would have asked for, but it’s been six months since Zimbabwe has played on the international stage and it’s been longer since they played at home.

Those factors as well as that match on March 23 last year, when the UAE won by three runs after the application of the Duckworth and Lewis Method to blow Zimbabwe out of World Cup contention, have made this a highly anticipated series.

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