Worst ODI team

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I would have to say Kenya...or are we talking about the test playing nations?

The Zibmabwe  under Mugabe

England cant beat zimbabwe 5-0

Bring the old zimbabwe back and you are done and dusted.

Originally posted by milkman Always competitive but still didn't win a tremendous amount.

Ask the indians

Yes mate I know that. They have reasonably done reasonably well against NZL,India and England though.

Originally posted by milkman Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Yes mate I know that. They have reasonably done reasonably well against NZL,India and England though. They can speak much more highly of themselves than Bangladesh. Certainly SL and ZIM adjusted a lot better to test and ODI cricket than Bangladesh has.

Perhaps, in my opinion, the issue with Bangladesh has had to do with the quality of the individuals in their side. If you looked at Bangladesh back when it was given test status there weren't really any players who stood out and could be heralded as world class players. If one looks at Kenya however, a team which could have been given test status ahead of Bangladesh, then you would have seen players like Maurice Odumbe, Steve Tikolo and Kennedy Otieno stand out. Just like now with the Netherlands they have Essex all rounder Ryan ten Doeschate. Bangladesh never really had a player or two who just stood out so far that he could be seen as a world class player. Since inclusion into test cricket they still really haven't found a genuine world beater, at least not a consistent one.

I agree the Zimbabwe post Mugabe was a good team. Mugabe messed that team up for good. He must no be a cricket fan.

Perhaps he meant pre-Mugabe. Then again, Mugabe has been president of the Republic of Zimbabwe since their inclusion into test cricket..

Yer mate, he's been around since 1980 I believe. Obviously it got bad towards the end of the 90s and early 00s, especially when white farmers were expelled from their lands and what not. Bad stuff over there in Zimbabwe, a lot of political, economic and now health problems for a long while. I hope Zimbabwe mends itself and then when ready they can play tests again - they earned the right, now they deserve to be given a chance when the time is right by world cricket.

Andy Flower is the best ever Zimbabwean cricket and one of the best batsman/keepers. He didn't keep in all his games, so I guess in essence he is like Sangakkara and Alec Stewart who both played as specialist batsmen at times. Unlike say Boucher, Healy, Gilchrist or Parore, etc who always kept in tests.

I heard Neil Johnson was also a south african by birth. Is it true?

true that. i could have done that easily. But then again, people even ask who has most centuries in T20s on cricinfo and those guys even publish such a silly question :p

milkman - lighten up , zuhair's question is perfectly reasonable. Respect for fellow users is a prerequisite on the forum and your continual sniping at zuhair must stop.

Edited by Sledger - 14 April 2009 at 7:05am