OK lets have a look at who has won matches for Zimbabwe against decently strong opposition, across all 3 formats:pariah wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2017 5:55 pm
If that is your measure, then Hami, Chigumbura, Vusi (and Taibu & Utseya), have been better match winners for Zimbabwe than Sean, Craig, Malcolm and even Taylor himself.
Your response is very strange because Jarvis isn't exactly young anymore plus has nothing on even a 38 year old Hami as an ODI&T20 player. Madziva and Jongwe are actually better white (not red) ball prospects than Jarvis, but Hami must be culled for Jarvis??? Shocking!
Here's the list of all matches since July 1, 2001: http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... ew=innings
Taibu - 2 (WI, NZ)
Chibabha - 4 (AUS, WI, PAK, NZ)
Chigumbura - 5 (AUS, WI, NZ, AUS, PAK)
Utseya - 3 (WI, WI, AUS)
Matsikenyeri - 2
Masakadza - 5 (WI, PAK, PAK, NZ, SL)
Chatara - 2 (PAK, PAK)
Panyangara - 2 (PAK, NZ)
Mawoyo - 1 (PAK)
Mire - 2 (SL, SL)
Taylor - 3 (AUS, SL, NZ)
Cremer - 3 (WI, NZ, SL)
Waller - 3 (NZ, SL, SL)
Williams - 4 (AUS, PAK, WI, SL)...only 1 with the bat
Raza - 3 (WI, SL, SL)
C Ervine - 2 (NZ, SL)
OK yes, the "black" guys have quite a few more match-winning performances than the "whites + Raza".
In particular very surprised by Chigs, Hami, and Chibabha...but you have remember the 3 of them have played a combined 700-800 innings probably and 14 match winning performances out of that is still a very very low percentage.
Utseya chipped in with 3, one of them being his efforts with the bat vs Australia in 2014.
Taylor was surprisingly low, I'll give you that.
Cremer hasn't played a whole lot, so 3 is not bad.
Waller surprising has 3, 2 with bat and 1 with the ball.
Williams has 4, but only 1 of them with the bat...perhaps he really should be considered as a genuine all-rounder...
Craig has 2, but have played very few innings.
Raza has 3, and ditto with the few innings.
Noteably, Matsikenyeri has a couple match winning knocks, and Ray Price probably has a few with the ball in that time period but since they aren't current players, i didn't include them.