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Created: 2025-07-21 20:20:17 UTC

Zimbabwe Test squad vs New Zealand – Key takeaways:

✅ Positives👍
• Ben Curran returns — a solid addition at the top.

• Sikandar Raza back in whites. His presence brings much-needed experience.

• Continued faith in Nick Welch at No. X — X fifties in X tests show he’s earning that trust.

• Consistency with Vincent Masekesa — finally some long-term investment in a specialist leggie post-Graeme Cremer.

🚫 Questionable Calls 👎
• Roy Kaia’s inclusion is baffling. Johnathan Campbell, who led and did fairly well on debut, gets dropped after just one game — makes no cricketing sense.

• Trevor Gwandu & Newman Nyamhuri in the Test squad again after the Afghanistan debacle? It's very hard to justify.

• Continued backing of Clive Madande and Tafadzwa Tsiga as wicketkeepers defies logic:
  ↪️ Madande holds the record for most byes in a Test for Zimbabwe and averages <10 in his last XX innings.
  ↪️ Tsiga averages just XXXX across his last XX Test knocks — simply not good enough at this level.

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XXXXXX engagements

![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/p:tweet::1947391199406362860/c:line.svg)

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