*Official* Zimbabwe in England (One Off Test)

[CartyDurham]

Since 1970

I can’t agree that Robinson is the best overseas bowler for England since then mind

sorry

 

[kevinw]

Robinson averages 28 away from home.

 

[Thala_0710]

Schedule:
22 May - 25 May (4 day test)

Squads:
England - Ben Stokes, Jordan Cox, Joe Root, Gus Atkinson, Zak Crawley, Jamie Smith, Shoaib Bashir, Ben Duckett, Josh Tongue, Harry Brook, Ollie Pope, Sam Cook, Matthew Potts

Zimbabwe - Yet to be announced

 

[Thala_0710]

They've got Raza back

 

[honestbharani]

Tenda Chatara is not gonna play tests, is it? It would be an even awesome-r attack with him there.

 

[SeamUp]

Zim players used for their last test tours to England.

2003
D Ebrahim, M Vermeulen, S Carlisle, G Flower, T Taibu, S Ervine, T Friend, H Streak (c), A Blignaut, R Price, D Hondo
Just played FC: D Marillier, M Nkala, B Rogers, V Sibanda

2000
G Flower, T Gripper, M Goodwin, A Campbell, A Flower (c), N Johnson, G Whittall, H Streak, B Strang, B Murphy, M Mbangwa, S Carlisle, M Nkala
Just played FC: G Brent, H Olonga, P Strang, T Taibu, D Viljoen, C Wishart

First-class tour 1985

 

[vidiq]

Last time England prepared a very bowling friendly pitch for Ireland,
England should prepare a pitch like this vs zimbabwe to make the match more interesting.

 

[Northerner]

On cricinfo it is reported that after the test match Zimbabwe will play South Africa in a 4 day match at Arundel, a shame they cant agree to make it an official test, it would make the game more meaningful.

 

[Chubb]

Last time England prepared a very bowling friendly pitch for Ireland,
England should prepare a pitch like this vs zimbabwe to make the match more interesting.

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If that happens Zim will be bowled out for less than 60, mark my words. It will be like Lords in 2000 when they had a much better batting line up who had played a lot of cricket around the world. Pitches like that do not exist in Zimbabwe.

It is already difficult for Zimbabwean batsmen to adjust to playing outside Africa, and nothing about their batting in recent tests suggests this will be different.