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Zimbabwean coaches dominate world Test Cricket

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04 Oct 2013 12:58 #157634 by chairman
LONDON (Zimbabwe Investor) – Since the famous whitewash ODI victory over England back in 1997 and the subsequent rebellion following the “black armband” protest by then captain Andy Flower and fast bowler Henry Olonga, Zimbabwe’s cricketing fortunes have taken a nose dive culminating in the withdrawal as a Test playing nation.

Since the return to Test Cricket, Zimbabwe has found itself reduced to battling at the basement of rankings with minnows Bangladesh. A far cry from the days when chicken farmer Eddo Brandes was sending England’s Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussein, Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe scurrying for cover at the crease.

Any Flower: England head coach

While Zimbabwe languishes at the bottom of the pile on the pitch, the southern African nation can be proud of its achievements in the cricketing pavilions around the world. The country has supplied arguably the world’s most successful cricket coaches of the past 15 years in former captains Andy Flower and Duncan Fletcher.

Former Zimbabwe captain Duncan Fletcher is India’s coach

When Duncan Fletcher took over the reigns as England’s coach in 1999, he turned around the squad from a struggling outfit to winning series over West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa in the following 4 years. In 2004 he led his charges to 8 consecutive test wins, an English record, which included a 3-0 win over New Zealand and a 4-0 win over West Indies. He followed this up in 2005 with England’s first Ashes victory over long-time rivals Australia in 18 years. In 2011 he went on to be appointed India’s coach on a 2-year contract. In between his England stint and his appointment as India’s coach, Fletcher took a role as South African coaching consultant.

After Fletcher left as head coach of England in 2007, another Zimbabwean, left-hand batsmen and former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower was appointed as assistant coach to Peter Moores. In 2009, Flower was asked to be interim head coach on England’s Caribbean tour following Peter Moores’ departure.  On return, he was appointed full-time team director which he followed up by leading England to another Ashes victory over Australia. A year later he led England in winning the 2010 ICC Twenty20 tournament before going away to beat Australia in the Ashes series in their backyard by three tests to one.

Andy Flower’s latest achievement as England coach was to retain the Ashes at home with an emphatic win against Australia. The Australians, since losing dismally to Flower’s boys, have turned to another Zimbabwean-born cricketer and former England batsmen, Graeme Hick as their high performance coach.

The achievement of Zimbabwe and its contribution to the international game is often overlooked but with Fletcher, Flower and Hick coaching India, England and Australia respectively, it means three of the top four test cricket playing nations are coached by Zimbabweans. Andy Waller, having taken the reigns as coach of Zimbabwe, makes it 40 per cent of all Test Cricket countries being led by a Zimbabwean or Zimbabwean-born coach.

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04 Oct 2013 13:46 #157641 by Gina145
While I'm not trying to deny that Andy Flower is Zimbabwean, having spent most of his youth and his entire playing career there, he was actually born in South Africa.  :)


Seriously though, in the days when Andy Flower and his brother Grant were still playing, Zimbabwe had a reasonably competitive team. There was a time when Andy Flower was the number one test batsman in the world, and Heath Streak was a really good allrounder.


After their success against Pakistan, hopefully the team are finally starting to rebuild, but it's good that Zimbabwe are at least making some contribution to world cricket.

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04 Oct 2013 15:28 #157671 by SpiralArchitect

Wasn't Neil Johnson from South Africa as well. I remember that guy took the world cup 1999 by storm and was one of the best players in the competition, winning matches single handed for Zimbabwe.

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04 Oct 2013 17:12 #157678 by Gina145

Not exactly. He was born in Salisbury (in what was then Rhodesia) but grew up in South Africa and played a lot of his cricket here. The fact that he never made the South African team came back to haunt us when Zimbabwe beat us in the 1999 World Cup and Johnson won man of the match, starring with both bat and ball.

On the other hand Steve Elworthy, who played for South Africa, was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). As far as I can remember he had an opportunity to play for Zimbabwe but chose not to take it.

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04 Oct 2013 17:42 #157682 by ramesh
All these successful  coaches who were former players in Rhodesia came from  a privilege  wealthy oppressor  class  that concentrated on cricket and nothing else since childhood  ..
They were basically parasites that live on the blood sweat and tears of      ordinary black  Zimbabweans and it was natural that they would become good at their craft. The only Black  player of note from  that era was Olongo who in the end became one of them.
The great man Robert Mugabe finally made things right by  making the Zimbabwe team a mostly black one/
Of interest is that now even South Africa  is going to implement a Quota System and hopefully that team too will be a mostly black one

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04 Oct 2013 18:29 #157685 by Mail
So Gina does it haunt you when Pietersen and Trott lead to your demise?

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04 Oct 2013 19:13 #157686 by Gina145

I don't like that they're playing for England, but I find them both a bit irritating so I don't let it bother me too much. Besides, we're the number one test team right now.  :)

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