The series has already started at Apr 10 Wed, and 1 game already done. at this point, Zimbabwe won the game. So I think Zimbabwe will win the series easily because Zimbabwe is stronger than the United Arab Emirates. And we can see the score will Zimbabwe 3 vs 1 United Arab Emirates.
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Zimbabwe used to be a better team.

The racism, politics, mismanagement harmed this team.  They used to have very bright future. If you compare Bangladesh team and Zimbabwe team then it will be more clear.

Have you remember 1997 ICC world cup qualification or a kind of tournament final between Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh? Bangladeshi team were so happy to beat them in the final as if it was like winning the world cup for them but now a days Bangladesh team beat Zimbabwe without having their main team.

Bangladesh got test status, they worked very hard to create cricketers and established them as a good cricket nation but on the other hand Zimbabwe team even do not have a good player who has a good ranking. It's a shame.

The problem is that cricket was never a popular sport among the native African population in Zimbabwe. Almost all of their better players were whites. There are blacks playing cricket in Zimbabwe, but its popularity is much lower than that of football, athletics, basketball.etc. And after the land grabbing, the vast majority of the whites emigrated, leaving the cricketing infrastructure in shambles. In Bangladesh, the sport is very popular. And if I am not mistaken, cricket is the most popular sport in Bangladesh.

It would have being an upset because the match was reduced to 35 overs due to bad light and the great Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method to calculate the projected score is still confusing for me and when the match was stopped at 32 overs because of bad light Zimbabwe was ahead in the DLS and declared the winner, but if you look at the score card you will get confused  .

Man! I also don't understand how does this D/L method works. I feel like they do a lot of unrealistic calculation. I can not give you specific examples but in lot of occasions I have seen the unfairness. It just do not add up with the real situation.

My thinking is that why do we need a method to find a winner. Just leave it and declare abundant or an unfinished match. If you do not know what will be the outcome of the next ball (out or dot, single, double, two, three, four or six or possibly anything) then how do you calculate based on mathematics.  

The method which we had earlier was even worse. I still remember the infamous match between South Africa and England during the 1992 world cup. South Africa was cruising to victory, and needed 22 off 13 balls. After 12 minutes of play was lost to rain, the target was revised as 21 runs off 1 ball.

Yeh I learnt about this match from history. I was too young to understand cricket then.

I feel without this Duckworth Lewis method cricket will be well off. I understand that they created it to eliminate the hassle of abandoning a match which may need another day but may not even get a result. Behind a cricket match there are money involves. Sponsors, audiences, events, tv channels, news channel I mean there are money and money everywhere. So they need a result in order to ensure everything. So, they are defining an undefined future.

Can you define a football match result or tennis or any other sports? Then why cricket came with this weird calculation?

There are matches where we see team scored 200+ runs (hypothetically giving a scenario) without losing any wicket but in the next few overs they lost all wickets.  There are matches where team lost 5 wickets in 20 runs but before the end of their innings they scored 250+ runs.

How are you going to know these futures that in the next few overs a team is going to lose all wickets or after losing some quick wickets a team still scored good runs and won a match. Duckworth Lewis is not gonna give the correct result.

Even in the match i mentioned earlier, there was a reserve day and yet the Television channel was adamant to finish the game on that day itself if my memory serves right, during those times chasing run a ball is also a huge thing.

This is exactly the reason, you cannot assume how things will be through calculations, when it comes to a sporting event anything can happen in a short period of time and we have seen many matches with unexpected twist from a strong position many times.

This is true, if there is a rain forecast, the teams will play accordingly to favor when DLS is factored into and i have seen those kind of matches in New Zealand and England where there will be unexpected shower during the course of a match.

Well before that can you please explain the difference of red ball and white ball. The only thing I know is that for a D/N match or N match we use white ball.

By the way, I not a lady LOL

Side note: I have never seen/known in a test match to use Duckworth Lewis because they have a draw result :-P

Honestly, why are everyone in this thread concerned about the D/L system all of a sudden? This system has existed for ages and it has its share of advantages and disadvantages(Advantages outweigh the disadvantages) and it won't be abolished anytime soon.

However, I would love to see an improvement(D/L 2.0) or a completely new system since the ICC have the budget to do so.