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Your countries first 3 xis of your era

morgieb

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1 Hamilton Masakadza
2 Stuart Carlisle
3 Craig Ervine
4 Brendan Taylor
5 Sean Williams
6 Sean Ervine
7 Tatenda Taibu
8 Heath Streak
9 Andy Blignaut
10 Raymond Price
11 Kyle Jarvis

1 Tino Mawoyo
2 Vusi Sibanda
3 Mark Vermeulen
4 Craig Wishart
5 Peter Moor
6 Sikandar Raza
7 Regis Chakabva
8 Graeme Cremer
9 Tinashe Panyangara
10 Douglas Hondo
11 Tendai Chatara

1 Trevor Gripper
2 Kevin Kasuza
3 Dion Ebrahim
4 Stuart Matsikenyeri
5 Malcolm Waller
6 Elton Chigumbura
7 Richard Mutumbami
8 Keegan Meth
9 Blessing Mahwire
10 Shingi Masakadza
11 Brian Vitori
No Goodwin or the Flower's?
 

Prince EWS

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No Goodwin or the Flower's?
Nah I followed Athlai's lead and started from the moment I started closely following the side - so the 2003 World Cup. Andy Flower and Goodwin played no Tests after that, and Grant played a couple but did SFA in them.

I know the OP loosely laid out rules that more or less let me pick any player who has played since I was born, but Zimbabwe actually played their first Test after I was born so I'd just be picking their best three teams ever. Been there, done that as a concept 1000 times.
 

jimmy101

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Wonderful deep dive into 2000's and later Zimababwe. Sorry to hear you've only been following Zim just as they started to take a turn from the worse Pews. I'd also be tempted to throw the evergreen Sikandar Raza into the first XI in place of Craig Ervine, and possibly even Cremer for Jarvis though that does leave the side without many seam bowling options.
 

morgieb

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Nah I followed Athlai's lead and started from the moment I started closely following the side - so the 2003 World Cup. Andy Flower and Goodwin played no Tests after that, and Grant played a couple but did SFA in them.

I know the OP loosely laid out rules that more or less let me pick any player who has played since I was born, but Zimbabwe actually played their first Test after I was born so I'd just be picking their best three teams ever. Been there, done that as a concept 1000 times.
Ah right. That makes more sense.
 

Line and Length

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Being a war baby born in England this gives me a huge scope. I'll start with my England teams and then, being a dual citizen, I'll get on to the Australian XIs.

England 1st XI
L.Hutton (c) /
G.Boycott /
D,Gower /
D.Compton /
K.Barrington /o
I.Botham /o
A.Knott (w/k) /
F.Trueman o
D.Underwood o
B.Willis o
J.Anderson o

England 2nd XI
G.Gooch /
J.Edrich /
C.Cowdrey /
P.May /
J.Root (c) /
B.Stokes /o
A.Flintoff /o
G.Evans (w/k)
F.Tyson o
A.Bedser o
J.Laker o

England 3rd XI
A.Cook /
A.Strauss /
M.Gatting /
T.Graveney /
T.Dexter /o
A.Grieg o/
A.Stewart /
R.Illingworth (c) /o
S.Broad o
J.Snow o
B.Statham o

I'll post this quickly as I can see changes between the sides and I'm sure to have forgotten someone!
 
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Line and Length

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.... and now for my Australian teams

Australia 1st XI
S.Barnes /
M.Hayden /
D.Bradman (c) /
R.Ponting /
S.Smith /
S.Waugh /o
K.Miller /o
W.Grout (w/k) - no point having Gillie batting this low!
S.Warne o
D.Lillee o
G.McGrath o

Australia 2nd XI
A.Morris /
R.Simpson /
N.Harvey /
G.Chappell /
A.Border /
D.Walters /o
A.Gilchrist (w/k) /
R.Benaud (c) /o
A.Mallett o
R.Lindwall o
C.McDermott o

Australia 3rd XI
D.Warner /
W.Lawry /
I.Redpath /
I.Chappell /
D.Jones /
M.Waugh /o
R.Marsh (w/k) /
A.Davidson /o
P.Cummings o
G.McKenzie o
S.McGill o

Not entirely happy - I'm sure I've overlooked some great players.
 
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Lillian Thomson

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Being a war baby born in England this gives me a huge scope. I'll start with my England teams and then, being a dual citizen, I'll get on to the Australian XIs.

England 1st XI
L.Hutton (c) /
G.Boycott /
D,Gower /
D.Compton /
K.Barrington /o
I.Botham /o
A.Knott (w/k) /
F.Trueman o
D.Underwood o
B.Willis o
J.Anderson o

England 2nd XI
G.Gooch /
J.Edrich /
C.Cowdrey /
P.May /
T.Dexter /o
A.Greig (c) /o
G.Evans (w/k)
F.Tyson o
A.Bedser o
J.Laker o

England 3rd XI
A.Cook /
A.Strauss /
M.Gatting /
T.Graveney /
J.Root /
B.Stokes /o
A.Stewart /
R.Illingworth (c) /o
S.Broad o
J.Snow o
B.Statham o

I'll post this quickly as I can see changes between the sides and I'm sure to have forgotten someone!
You definitely forgot someone on the 2nd XI as there's only 10 players in it.
 

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