Best "LOST" Zimbabwean Player

[Jonty Lathwal]

I would expect Rainsford to make that side at the moment tbh. Definetly over Olonga

I can't believe ....how can u say this....

Olonga has won a lot of matches for Zimbabwe......

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

Barney Rogers was a very very talented player....

I don't know where he is now......

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

I would expect Rainsford to make that side at the moment tbh. Definetly over Olonga

I can't believe.......how can u say this?????

Olonga has won a lot of matches for Zimbabwe......

 

[Goughy]

Mupariwa and Ireland are better bowlers than Rainsford......

I like Rainsford and I dont really rate Ireland. That is my simple justification.

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

I like Rainsford and I dont really rate Ireland. That is my simple justification.

It's OK........different people have different choices...

 

[Julian87]

The likes of Taylor, Williams, Ervine, Taibu and Blignaut would have evolved into a decent ODI batting order IMO. Bowling was always going to be a problem though.

 

[Richard]

Richard apparently. Sean Ervine had plenty of potential with the bat but his record in Australia and English domestic cricket thus far suggests that he has yet amounted to almost nothing. Then again he is still only 25.

Yeah Ervine has disappointed me more than most players in recent years. I really did think, when he played those couple of innings' in the VB Series in 2003/04 against decent to good ODI attacks, aged just 20, that here was a potentially very, very good batsman. When he moved to play for WA and Hampshire I'd hoped that the top-quality training facilities and coaching would turn him from a relatively rough diamond into the real article - and, given how good he already was at 20, quickly.

Sadly, it emphatically hasn't happened so far.

But as you say, aged 25 time isn't yet up.

 

[Migara]

Most of the best prematurely retired types would now have retired anyway, the question of the next generation of stars would now be being asked - and, if the system had been managed properly, probably answered in the affermative.

I would have Strang in ODI XI as well. A very are kind of a creature which is classfied as a "slow bowling all rounder". There haven't been many, Sobers, Wilfred Rhodes and Shoaib Malik are the only ones which spring to the mind. Strand could have been a terrific player. I remeber that even SRt and Azhar were struggling to pick his wrong'un.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah Ervine has disappointed me more than most players in recent years. I really did think, when he played those couple of innings' in the VB Series in 2003/04 against decent to good ODI attacks, aged just 20, that here was a potentially very, very good batsman. When he moved to play for WA and Hampshire I'd hoped that the top-quality training facilities and coaching would turn him from a relatively rough diamond into the real article - and, given how good he already was at 20, quickly.

Sadly, it emphatically hasn't happened so far.

But as you say, aged 25 time isn't yet up.

Yeah, it really is quite strange that he looked so much better when he was based in a country that much less capable coaching and facilities around him. He's actually played some very fine OD innings at Hampshire and even one or two for WA where he looked closed to internation standard but they have been few and far between.

 

[stumpski]

I would have Strang in ODI XI as well. A very are kind of a creature which is classfied as a "slow bowling all rounder". There haven't been many, Sobers, Wilfred Rhodes and Shoaib Malik are the only ones which spring to the mind. Strand could have been a terrific player. I remeber that even SRt and Azhar were struggling to pick his wrong'un.

Vinoo Mankad and Frank Woolley were pretty handy as well - but yes, most all-rounders are pacemen for some reason.

And Jayasuriya >>> Shoaib Malik.

 

[Prince EWS]

Vinoo Mankad and Frank Woolley were pretty handy as well - but yes, most all-rounders are pacemen for some reason.

And Jayasuriya >>> Shoaib Malik.

Vettori springs to mind. Hogg as well - I'm sure there were stacks really, just not many who were particularly good.

 

[tooextracool]

I can't believe ....how can u say this....

Olonga has won a lot of matches for Zimbabwe......

Olonga for me was all pace and little else. He was never even a regular player for Zimbabwe before the episode of the 2003 wc.

 

[morgieb]

The likes of Taylor, Williams, Ervine, Taibu and Blignaut would have evolved into a decent ODI batting order IMO. Bowling was always going to be a problem though.

Oh, BTW Julian, Travis wanted you to resign with CW Blue. Yeah, I agree, Blignaut would be the only decent one IMO.

 

[morgieb]

Yeah, it really is quite strange that he looked so much better when he was based in a country that much less capable coaching and facilities around him. He's actually played some very fine OD innings at Hampshire and even one or two for WA where he looked closed to internation standard but they have been few and far between.

Yah, he's turned **** recently.

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

Olonga for me was all pace and little else. He was never even a regular player for Zimbabwe before the episode of the 2003 wc.

But he would b remembered for some historic matches,,,,,,,like ZIM vs IND WC 1999

 

[Richard]

For every one of those games (and there were the odd few), there were several utter shockers.

Don't get me wrong, I always rated Olonga as a bowler with potential, I still would've hoped that, had the country not collapsed, he could've got better as his career progressed. But in the time he did play, he bowled far too many no-balls, his accuracy was often woeful, and he did not always get the ball to do much. And that was reflected in one of the worst ODI records you could wish to see.

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

Well certainly not the worst bowling record ,,,,,,,6-wicket holds a couple of times....

 

[tooextracool]

But he would b remembered for some historic matches,,,,,,,like ZIM vs IND WC 1999

He did have a few good performances. But as i said earlier, he was too wayward to be a consistent threat at the international level.