Zimbabwe All-Time Test XI - Open Voting

[Daemon]

Godw1n
Houghton
Flower

Price

 

[Flametree]

Goodwin, Houghton, Flower
Strang P

 

[Chook Herron]

G.Flower
Campbell
Goodwin
Houghton
A.Flower (w)
Taylor
Whittall
Streak
P.Strang
Brain
Mbangwa

Johnson

 

[kingkallis]

Goodwin, Houghton, Flower
Strang P

This

 

[Migara]

Johnson, G. Flower, Goodwin, Houghton, A. Flower, Campbell, Taibu, Streak, P. Strang, Blignaut, Brandes

Don't think Traicos belongs there, and Price is bit unlucky to miss.

 

[NUFAN]

Bump.

 

[Prince EWS]

Bump.

Haha thanks for that. I had legitimately forgot about this. Will post up the next choices thing later today.

 

[Goughy]

Anyone else waiting?

 

[Prince EWS]

Goodwin, Houghton and Flower comfortably got home on the middle order batting vote.

Paul Strang won the spinner vote over Price 11-8.

That gives us:

1. Grant Flower
2.
3. Murray Goodwin
4. Dave Houghton
5. Andy Flower
6.
7.
8. Paul Strang
9. Heath Streak
10.
11. Kyle Jarvis

I'll just ask you now to select a wicket keeper.

You may select Houghton or Flower for team balance reasons if you wish; if one of those two wins the poll then we'll have another vote for the position opened up by it at the end.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'll vote for Taibu.

Flower kept for team balance reasons rather than because he was a natural gloveman and he wasn't particularly tidy. He got the job done but I think if there are other options they should be explored. Taibu isn't far off the other middle order batting options and frees up Flower to just bat; he was also an absolutely fantastic gloveman. I don't really know a lot about Houghton's wicket keeping in general but I do want him to bat four and I shy away from having my keeper bat top four.

 

[Goughy]

Flower. I'll have Whittall over Taibu

 

[Hurricane]

I'll vote for Taibu.

me too

 

[BeeGee]

Taibu

 

[Dan]

I'll vote for Taibu.

Flower kept for team balance reasons rather than because he was a natural gloveman and he wasn't particularly tidy. He got the job done but I think if there are other options they should be explored. Taibu isn't far off the other middle order batting options and frees up Flower to just bat; he was also an absolutely fantastic gloveman. I don't really know a lot about Houghton's wicket keeping in general but I do want him to bat four and I shy away from having my keeper bat top four.

I think this was my exact justification when I mentioned wicketkeepers earlier on. Hence, this.

 

[Chubb]

I'll have Flower keep. Don't think Taibu had enough with the bat to justify picking him.

 

[NUFAN]

Difficult choice but I'm going to go with Flower as my keeper so we can pick an all rounder at 7 and another classy batsman like Taylor at 6.

 

[morgieb]

Taibu.

 

[the big bambino]

Flower.

 

[Flem274*]

Taibu

 

[morgieb]

I'll vote for Taibu.

Flower kept for team balance reasons rather than because he was a natural gloveman and he wasn't particularly tidy. He got the job done but I think if there are other options they should be explored. Taibu isn't far off the other middle order batting options and frees up Flower to just bat; he was also an absolutely fantastic gloveman. I don't really know a lot about Houghton's wicket keeping in general but I do want him to bat four and I shy away from having my keeper bat top four.

This. And it's not like Taibu was that much worse with the bat than the other options.