Road to the England Test 2025

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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There will be a support crew of like 50 backroom staff for this trip. Mawoza, Larry K and all kinds of hangers on along for the ride.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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jw2 wrote:
Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:16 pm
Kriterion_BD wrote:
Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:04 pm
Pat_Bee wrote:
Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:43 pm
I’d take chats :lol: wouldn’t bother with a specialist spinner.

I think we can cause an upset :lol: bazball has a 50% win rate and 0 draws, so 50% loss rate.
We could see a 1 day Test, especially if its 100 overs per day. England could win the toss and declare at 200-5 at lunch...You'd think 60-70 overs is plenty of time to take 20 wickets if the ball is moving around a bit.
The ball often swings about at Trent Bridge, and if so our batsmen will struggle.
I still back our boys, or at least bazball to fall apart. England always seem to be awful the first test of their summer.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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A bit of a toss up between UK and staying at Elephant Hills and monitoring the building at Batonka Stadium.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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A match up of Raza vs Stokes as to who’s the craziest guy :lol: both of them would back themselves to chase like 1000 from 374/9 or something

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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Googly wrote:
Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:55 am
A bit of a toss up between UK and staying at Elephant Hills and monitoring the building at Batonka Stadium.
Nothing to monitor yet :lol:

How many games we even hosting? saw a graphic yesterday saying we hosted like six last time around. Hardly seems worth the effort and expense if it’s similar this time.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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Aah no they're working hard there.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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Zimbabwe need a good spinner who can also hold the bat for the test match. And I feel Ryan Burl would be the best choice here.
Sadly, Burl is not even bowling even in his preferred T20s....

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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It’s totally in the bag this. Mark wood is injured, Jofra probably will be :lol: England are in disarray with their 0% ODI win rate in 2025 while we sit pretty on a 66% win rate.

It’s all Rhodie propaganda that dukes ball swinging like a banana. It’s just a ball like any other :lol: :lol:

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Williams will be high as a kite on pain relief and score himself a couple of hundreds.

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Re: Road to the England Test 2025

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BugsBunny wrote:
Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Zimbabwe need a good spinner who can also hold the bat for the test match. And I feel Ryan Burl would be the best choice here.
Sadly, Burl is not even bowling even in his preferred T20s....
Raza is the man, he’s got five variations according to some graphic on twitter.

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