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Stats Analysis

More wins than India and New Zealand

Stats highlights from Zimbabwe's Test journey as they prepare to play their 100th match, against Sri Lanka on Saturday

Gaurav Sundararaman
28-Oct-2016
More wins for Zimbabwe after 99 Tests than India and New Zealand

More wins for Zimbabwe after 99 Tests than India and New Zealand  •  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

11 Wins for Zimbabwe in 99 Tests. They have more wins than India and New Zealand had after 99 Tests. India had 10 wins while New Zealand had just seven.
2001 Zimbabwe's best year in Test cricket. They won four matches that year and lost as many. The wins in 2001 constitute 36.36% of their total wins in Test matches. They won three games against Bangladesh and one against India.
82.5 Percentage of Tests Zimbabwe have lost since the start of 2002 (33 out of 40). Till the end of 2001, they had lost only 29 out of 59 (49%). Their draw percentage till 2001 was a healthy 39%, but since 2002 it has dropped to 7.5%.
Zimbabwe' s Test record
Period Tests W/ L Draw Loss %
 Till Dec 2001  59  7/ 29  23  49.2
 Jan 2002 onwards  40  4/ 33  3  82.5
 Overall  99  11/ 62  26  62.6
6 Wins against Bangladesh, out of the 11 Tests Zimbabwe have won. Their next best record is against Pakistan - three wins - followed by two against India.
8 Test wins for Zimbabwe in Harare, out of the 32 Tests they have played there. This has been their best ground by far; they have not won more than one Test at any other venue.
17 Zimbabwe's win percentage at home. Out of 54 matches, they have won nine and lost 29. In 45 away Tests, though, they have won only two and lost 33. The last away Test that Zimbabwe won was way back in 2001 versus Bangladesh.
4794 Test runs for Andy Flower. He is Zimbabwe's most prolific run-scorer and has by far the best average among all Zimbabwe cricketers. The next highest aggregate is 3457, by his brother Grant Flower. Grant, though, has won the most Man-of-the-Match awards in Tests for Zimbabwe - he has five such awards, while Andy has four.
216 Number of wickets for Heath Streak. He is the only Zimbabwe bowler to take more than 100 Test wickets. The next best is Ray Price with 80. Streak is also Zimbabwe's most successful captain, with four wins and 11 defeats - a win loss ratio of 0.363.
68 Percentage of ZImbabwe's Tests that Grant Flower played in - 67 out of 99. It is the highest percentage of a team's total matches that any player has played.
13 Instances of Zimbabwe not winning a single Test in a calendar year, out of the 19 years in which they have played at least one Test. Even though they played their first Test in 1992, there was a period between 2006 and 2010 when they didn't play a single Test.