Richard said:
Let's take a look and see why, shall we?
First-innings:
Grant Flower - excellent Caddick Yorker.
as usual you misrecall.
rather it was a low full toss. flower was late on it, and completely missed it. and really grant flower has always looked at sea in english conditions as his avg of 4.50 and 13.25 on 2 tours of england show.
Richard said:
Campbell - another excellent delivery.
wtf?
did you watch that game? inside edge poked at a ball outside of stump. either you seem to call every delivery that swings an excellent delivery, or you are just deluded. how in the world you can call a wicket of an inside edge, anything other than poor technique, i'll never know.
Richard said:
Goodwin - yet another very good away-swinger, Gough this time.
outside the off stump, unnecessary slash. surprisng for someone like goodwin, who looked quite brilliant throughout the series.
Richard said:
Murphy - good delivery IIRR.
playing away from the body... poor stroke.
Richard said:
Second-innings:
Andy Flower - another excellent inswinger.
pulled off a graeme smith and trapped himself in front of the stumps. poor shot.
Richard said:
Johnson - another good, seaming delivery.
and just because it was a seaming delivery, it means that the batsman didnt play a poor shot to it is it? i cant quite remember how he got out in this inning but considering some of his other dismissals, i doubt it wouldnt have been a slash outside off stump.
Richard said:
Murphy - poor stroke, missed a straight ball
Streak - good delivery, good catch
Whittall - not a great stroke, match over by then
Mbangwa - dragged-on off the helmet
So all-in-all I'd say England bowled exceptionally and made a reasonable batting-line-up look like novices, as they did on plenty of other occasions throughout the summer to the West Indians..
and as you can see, any person who watched the match would be able to recall that the zimbabwian batting lineup made englands bowlers look brilliant. bowlers like giddins barely bowled a good ball all summer.
Richard said:
The second-innings at Trent Bridge was exceedingly poor (Nkala still bowled far better than he's ever bowled since that match) but the side still included Atherton, Hussain, Stewart, Caddick and Gough, whose performances at Lord's (along with Hick's and Giddins') were with the exception of Hussain very good.
Yes, in Ramprakash-the-opener, Knight-the-number-six, Flintoff, Schofield and Giddins (bowling as he did at Trent Bridge and Edgbaston) weren't Test-class or anything close to it, and once Vaughan, Thorpe, White and Cork are added it's a very good side.
I never once said England were as good at the start of the summer as we were at the end, simply that we played far, far better in that Test than we did in the recently concluded one.
yes thats glaringly obvious, but the fact is that zimbabwe players played some appalling strokes at lords. some like g.flower because they were incapable, others like campbell, goodwin etc because of nerves, and some like whitall, streak, gripper etc because they were rubbish.
and just because the side included 5 good players, it doesnt make the side good, especially considering how poor the other 6 were.
. Harnison being the speedstar and freddie being the trickstar with his impressive array of variations. do forgive me if i am starting to sound abit biased. 
