Best Zimbabwe Cricket Players

Truly World Class!
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If anyone thinks Taibu is not world class then I give up!

Taibu was class yea , but the fact that you consider Panyangara and Mupariwa as World Class is laughable. Brendan Taylor is World class and showed it at the world cup. Mate don't let your racial frustrations cloud your judgement.

Chatara has the potential to be World Class. I really rate him.

Flakeman wrote:Taibu was class yea , but the fact that you consider Panyangara and Mupariwa as World Class is laughable. Brendan Taylor is World class and showed it at the world cup. Mate don't let your racial frustrations cloud your judgement.

Where do you get race from?

I'm sure many fair observers will agree with me on Mupariwa&Panyngara. Panyangara is in my view Zimbabwe's 2nd best ever Test seamer after Streak, while Mupariwa was for quite some time Zimbabwe's best ODI bowler, churning out world class performance after world class performance against world class batting orders. Panyangara&Mupariwa are sub 30 avg bowlers, who achieved that through bowling to serious batsmen - that's world class in my book. Not my fault IF you only started watching Mupariwa now, after injury&neglect when he had lost even more pace.

Brendan Taylor is being judged on batting, and he doesn't average over 35. If he was a world class keeper like Taibu and average 30+ then he would definitely be world class. Unfortunately he's had some of the most horrific series you can think of in his middling career (WI and BD away), and most of them happened in his prime. Anyway, I don't think Taylor had the technic or quality to ever be world class even if he was developed in England like Ballance. Hitting a century against India(& Ireland) at the CWC is nothing to write home about. Young Quinton de Kock routinely smashes the best Indian attacks for back2back hundreds for fun - home&away. If Brendan Taylor is World Class, then so are Campbell, Grant and Johnson.

At the end of the day Zimbabwe only ever had Andy Flower as the world class player. Not even Heath Streak is world class in the true sense of the word.

This post served to show that there are actually a lot of brilliant Black cricketers who are ranked higher than Kriterion thinks.

ZIMDOGGY wrote:haha pretty certain you just made a list then figured 'where can i fit some black dudes in'.

Taibu would not have made any other major test team really.

I brought up the 2003 WC squads to check and the only teams he would have got a gig are the windies and MAYBE India.

Nope those are genuine picks. I haven't looked properly at stats to back it up but those are genuine picks.

It's pointless to say these players wouldn't have done so well in the 90s because a lot of them - Taibu, Masakadza, Chigumbura and even Matsikenyeri - excelled against full strength teams. That argument only applies in someone like Craig Ervine who has predominantly faced reserve players of what is already an average generation of opposition, and never had a poor record before as a youngster to affect his career average.

You've already removed India&WI, but I would pick Taibu over Mark Boucher, Ian Healy, Geraint Jones, Rashid Latif & Kaluwitharana and Adam Parore anyday! That's Pakistan, England, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Do you want to throw in Khaled Mashud&Mushfiqur of Bangladesh?

Tatenda Taibu is the boss!!! Many have accepted this about him throughout his career.

ZIMDOGGY wrote:Most of those players werent present from those squads.

😂 Are you trying to trap me into comparing Taibu with Sanga, Gily, Baz and Alec Stewart?

Purely as a batsman Alec Stewart is one of the most underrated players. I rate him higher than Any Flower, purely because he faced better attacks over longer periods, and his career wasn't exactly due to wild peaks. Both have something in common - as captains and leader they literally carried their underwhelming sides at the time.

Come on. Give it to Taibu. No way Healy could fly like Taibu and make his bat talk like him. :D