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Zimbabwe All-Time Test XI - Open Voting

Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
I'm surprised I'm the only one picking Brandes. He had something about him. Bowled a heavy ball, moved it away from the bat. IMO, more deserving than the rest of the names.

Jarvis looks like a talented club cricketer, Mbangwa was a terrible international bowler - basically Mark Butcher without the batting, and Olonga charged in hard all day to bowl gun barrel straight at 130 kph.

Not much comp for me for The Chicken Farmer
 
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Dazinho

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I'm agreed with you - Brandes was a quality bowler and another for whom Test Cricket came just a tad too late.

Mbangwa was miserly accurate but not much more than that. Throw in that he competes with Chris Martin for the title of worst test batsman of the last 25 years and his inclusion in this team is difficult to build a case for IMO.

Olonga was very similar to Devon Malcolm - lethal on his day, just that day didn't come along that often.

Depending on the balance of the side, my bowlers would come from:-

Automatic picks - Streak, Brandes
Then any two from - Brain, Blignaut, P Strang, Price

Batsmen - G Flower, Whittall, Campbell, Goodwin, Houghton, A Flower

All-rounder - Johnson
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
My list from 2007

1. G Flower
2. A Campbell (c)
3. M Goodwin
4. D Houghton
5. A Flower (wk)
6. G Whitall
7. H Streak
8. P Strang
9. A Blignaut
10. R Price
11. H Olonga

I'll stand by it. Even with the emergence of Taylor and Taibu, whose records against teams which aren't Bangladesh are poor.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Results

Heath Streak 17
Kyle Jarvis 8
Pommie Mbangwa 3
David Brain 2
Eddo Brandes 2
Neil Johnson 1
Peter Rawson 1

Grant Flower 13
Alistair Campbell 2
Kevil Arnott 1

Team so far

1. Grant Flower
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Heath Streak (o)
9.
10.
11. Kyle Jarvis (o)

Next up you are to select THREE middle order batsmen and ONE spinner.

Don't worry about wicket keeping or bowling when selecting the middle order bats; we'll vote on some balance options later. The aim at the moment is just to fill the 3-5 spots with the best middle order bats adjudged by CW.

Middle order suggestions:

Code: 
[B]PLAYER			TEST CAREER	BATTING 3-6[/b]

Andy Flower		4794r @ 51.54	4646r @ 51.05
Dave Houghton		1464r @ 43.05	1464r @ 43.05
Murray Goodwin		1414r @ 42.84	1414r @ 42.84
Tatenda Taibu		1546r @ 30.31	1115r @ 34.84
Sean Ervine		261r @ 32.62	202r @ 33.66
Guy Whittall		2207r @ 29.42	1277r @ 33.60
Brendan Taylor		1182r @ 34.76	994r @ 31.06
Neil Johnson		532r @ 24.18	514r @ 30.23
Stuart Carlisle		1615r @ 26.91	1135r @ 27.68
Alastair Campbell	2858r @ 27.21	2453r @ 26.37
Spin bowler suggestions:

Code: 
[B]PLAYER			TEST CAREER[/B]

Adam Huckle		25w @ 34.88
Paul Strang		70w @ 36.02
Ray Price		80w @ 36.06
John Traicos		14w @ 40.14
Graeme Cremer		24w @ 45.62
Brian Murphy		18w @ 61.83
 
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morgieb

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Flower, Houghton, Goodwin

Strang (though Price was pretty unlucky his peak years Zimbabwe were out of the game)
 
HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Johnson got TWO votes, ****.

And he'll get another one now.

Flower, A
Johnson
Houghton

And for the spinner, I'll select Price.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Flower, Houghton and Goodwin tower over the rest of Zim's batsmen.

I take it Hick is off limits for this selection? He was apart of the Zimbabwe 1983 World Cup squad, and did play a number of first class games for Zim against WI and SL XI's, before they got test status...

Strang gets my vote for his handy lower order swatting.
 
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