Conant wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:31 pm
jaybro wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:40 pm
Ladies and gentlemen who do you believe Tristan Holme or Hhm
Holme is an established and respected journalist who is actually close to proceedings
Hhm is a bitter troll who has no idea
Up to you guys
But India aren't coming anymore are they...? And they've been a permanent fixture for the past five years.
Clearly there was some definite trade off there. Hope it will be all worth it, after monumentally pissing off India.
But quite simply, all these busy fixtures. which is all one can ever ask for really, should be able to make up for five lost ODIs against India I think.
We've been through this before.
They said African administrators were corrupt and guilty of maladministration at CSA. Unfortunately, CSA has never been poorer!
They had to bring back African administration and sack Lorgat before India could come down.
The irony is, the same African guy in charge of CSA now is was part of Lorgat's mess ups!
ZC is blowing money like nobody's business right now. Players like Aliseni quit FC from what I heard, instead of ZC throwing money at them, they chose to bring in some internationals who can't guarantee improvement or qualification, plus put colts into the FC setup. Ed Byrom is probably being paid to play briefly in ZIM's weakened FC league before he heads back to England, what Aliseni would have earned the whole season. Where is the logic in wasting that money on him?
Plenty players are either out of a job right now, or can't make FC cricket, all because of some stupid decisions. If ZIM don't qualify for the CWC it'll go bust!
After the CWC all ZIM has to look forward to is FC matches against Associates. Turns out that even the money ICC gave them wasn't enough for them to afford to play 3 matches against each of the Full Members over a cycle!
After the money that was bown rebuilding from 2009-2011(technically 2006-2011 but 2006-2008 was dead) when they resumed Tests, ZC now has to rebuild again for another 5 years!
At least back then they had automatic qualification to CWCs! Now for the next 4 T20 and ODI CWCs, Taylor and Jarvis must make ZIM beat IRE and NED ... and Afghanistan to do so, along with an unfortunate PAK/WI/SL/BD!