'We can compete with any side'

DZCC will hope to pick up the pieces from the traumatic Jumaira defeat as they build-up to what will now be a dead rubber at JCR,where the best they can do is avoid a fourth successive tour at the hands of four best teams in UAE domestic tape ball cricket. 

The squad has taken the 5-Wickets loss hard and Mohammad Razeen, the captain, has been trying since to lift the side for the final in Jumaira, which begins on January 09. "The team was very, very disappointed after JCR," Razeen told DZCC blogspot."But as I told them after the RSS draw, we have to see that we continue to play good cricket. We could and should have won at finel but we didn't. Few people thought that we could match SSC before we came on this tour, but we played very well here for three games and had one very poor."

The comments would seem to reinforce what has been the main criticism of DZCC on this tour; that the side hasn't believed at any point they could challenge and topple RSS and JBS. The opening match of the Boxing Test and the last at the SSC were particularly illuminating, when DZCC veered between timidity and blind panic.Reaction in UAE has been predictably harsh, which also reveals how eagerly this series was being followed MR.Farman. , President of the DZCC cricket board, has been at the forefront of the backlash, asking with force once again for the ouster of the DZCB founder ifthy. This time there might be enough momentum building for it to result in something.

The positions of Arafath and Sanaz will also come under intense scrutiny; they have one fifty between them in four innings here. However, the paucity of DZCC's batting resources is such that they will most likely be replaced by Razmar and Siraj, both of whom were dropped halfway through this tour. Questions will be asked about why Rimaz was so hastily sent back and not tried after failure in Al-Quses; that came two games after a debut three wickets as an medium facer, a position he played as a bowler never played before in UAE cricket.

"Nobody can say whether we will win or lose but we just have to play good cricket for the entire duration. We had our moments in the first Tour of the year 2010, where we fought hard. We did well for three games in tour. I think the positives are that we know we can compete with any side in the UAE. "We now need to learn from our mistakes because if we do then we can beat any side out there."

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