Few rain drops and they are indoors

The last two days have been spent in introspection by the Bangladesh cricket team in Harare. The magnitude of the defeat they suffered will obviously be hard to swallow, and the effects showed.
The Bangladesh team generally look a happy outfit, drawing pleasure from simple excursions such as going out en masse to dinner, or sharing jokes by the hotel swimming pool in the evenings. But as early as the evening of the third day, when Bangladesh lost nine wickets for 32 runs and Zimbabwe took a lead of 442, spirits were visibly dampened. After the loss, they were seen together, but a gloom had taken over as they sat and discussed what happened and what could have been. Even the joker of the pack, Nasir Hossain, was subdued.
The jokes were still there -- there must at least be an effort to keep spirits high even in the aftermath of a 335-run loss to Zimbabwe -- but their effect was not as it was before the match started.
Yesterday was a rest day for the team, with the recovering Tamim Iqbal and second Test hopeful Mominul Haque making their way to the optional practice session with coach Shane Jurgensen. Before that, Jurgensen had a one-on-one talk with all members of the team around noon.
A lot of the players were supposed to make a 35-kilometre trip to the Lion and Cheetah Park. But it may be indicative of the general mood of the team that many including Mohammad Ashraful and Robiul Islam had made it to the hotel car park, but upon seeing a few drops of rain decided against the trip and spent the day indoors. The two players to opt for the visit to the animal sanctuary were Shahadat Hossain -- who will fly back to Dhaka soon because of a knee injury -- and Sajidul Islam, who has a strong chance of making it to the starting eleven for the second Test starting at the Harare Sports Club on April 25.