Zimbabwe vs Ireland Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2nd One-Day International

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After losing the opening ODI, Ireland will need to come from behind against Zimbabwe to turn this series around.

Date/Time: Saturday February 15th 2025: USA PT – 11:30pm / Sunday February 16th 2025: USA ET – 2:30am / UK – 7:30am

Venue: Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe

Weather: A chance of thundery showers across play with temperatures at 24c. 

How to watch on TV: UK – Not televised / US – Not televised

How to watch online: UK – TBA / US – TBA

Zimbabwe Betting Analysis

The first ODI between these two nations was dominated by Zimbabwe’s Brian Bennett, the 21-year-old scoring a fabulous 169, becoming the youngest player to record a score of 150 or more in ODI cricket. His knock helped the hosts put a winning score on the board and will have injected the young talent with a young amount of confidence. Therefore, back Bennett to follow that up with a score of 30+ runs here via the ‘Batter Milestones’ market.

Ireland Betting Analysis

In our betting analysis of Ireland heading into the first ODI, we focused on the quality of batter Harry Tector and he demonstrated his ability, finishing as his side’s second highest run-scorer with 39, albeit in defeat. Now that Tector has gotten back into the swing of things when it comes to 50-over-cricket, he may well end up pushing on and backing him to improve further by accumulating a match fifty in the second ODI warrants consideration.

Zimbabwe vs Ireland Expert Prediction

The poor forecast could bring this second ODI to an untimely conclusion, which makes the bowling attacks of both teams even more important. If Zimbabwe bowl first, they’ll be confident of skittling Ireland, who must improve from a batting point of view. The likes of Blessing Muzarabani are more than capable of keeping the tourists in check once again and provided the weather holds off, it would be no surprise if Zimbabwe doubled their series lead.

Zimbabwe vs Ireland Tip: Zimbabwe to win