Joined: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Sydney Australia
Zimbabwe has no cricketing structure. You can say that Zimbabwe was a threatining ODI outfit 7 years ago where they caused few upsets here and there. With players like Murry Goodwin, Neil Johnson, Andy Flower, Grant Flower and Heath Streak they were able to win 1/5 matches against bigger teams. Other than that everyone else was firstclass level by just. If you look at their younger generations (even during Flower brothers time) it was never promising. Apart from Sean Williams they never produced quality players from their younger generation.
Just say if there was no political problem in Zimbabwe and Andy Flower, Grant Flower, Neil Johnson, Murry Goodwin, Heath Streak and Sean Williams stayed. They would have enjoyed this luxury till let just say 2010 (not to mention most players left when they were 32-35 and it was in 2003-2004). After that it would bleek for them anyways.
Zimbabwe never had the infrastructure to create world class players. They were fortunate to have Flower brothers where Andy Flower was world class batsman. Murry Goodwin was a product of Australia and Neil Johnson a product of South Africa. Apart from Heath Streak the bowling looked toothless and they never produced anyone that good.
The reason for this poor facilities and lack of intrest among public.
I agree with you totally. The absence of several top and experienced players in their line up is really making all the differences. They have to now play more matches to gain experience.
Zimbabwe has lost the way and the momentum. Now they are not as per the standard that they used to be. I also attribute it to the reason that players like Heath Streak, the Flower brothers and others are not been there.
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