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Old August 20, 2013, 01:59 AM
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Originally Posted by al Furqaan
A full strength Zimbabwe would probably be stronger than us in Tests and on par or slightly weaker than us in ODIs. They'd win Tests, 2-0 against at home and by large margins. They'd probably draw 1-1 in Bangladesh. ODIs they'd win 3-2 in ZIM, and we'd probably win by the same margin at home. But I can't see us dominating, except for one-offs, in any conditions, a side consisting of:

Sibanda << Tamim
Mawoyo >> whoever
S Ervine > Anamul
Taylor >>> Mominul
Ballance < Shakib
Taibu < Mushfiq
Williams < Nasir
Cremer < Gazi
S Masakadza < Robiul
Jarvis >> Nazmul
whoever > whoever

OK so it looks pretty even, with just a 2+ slight edge in arrows to ZIM. But we know in a head to head Tamim will make more fat statements to the mics than he will score runs, so it becomes a 4+ advantage to ZIM. Notice that ZIM could finally get rid of overhyped wastes like Hamilton and Chigumbura.
ballance the better batsman shakib the better cricketer, tough to compare them as ballance isn't an all rounder like shakib and obviusly shakib isn't just any all rounder he has to be one of the core batsmen and core bowlers to so tough to compare but for purely batting i think you have to put ballance ahead, but as a cricketer it's shakib.
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