How the hell do you turn over 70% of your team in three years? Especially when they were at their best.
That is because the UAE cricketers are part-time cricketers. They basically form a team around who is available. It is hard for all the best cricketers there to be available at all times.
According to Paul Radley, who covers the UAE cricket for the National and contributes to ESPNcricinfo, the loss of ODI status could have meant termination of the players' contracts, many of whom can only stay in the country if they kept their job.
Hire and fire, I suppose. It probably makes more sense to look at the UAE as a professional club (a mediocre or struggling one) than as a national team. For example, the football club I support has also only two or three players from three years ago still on its books.
How the hell do you turn over 70% of your team in three years? Especially when they were at their best.
That is because the UAE cricketers are part-time cricketers. They basically form a team around who is available. It is hard for all the best cricketers there to be available at all times.
According to Paul Radley, who covers the UAE cricket for the National and contributes to ESPNcricinfo, the loss of ODI status could have meant termination of the players' contracts, many of whom can only stay in the country if they kept their job.
It's just 12 cricketers, and most of them were given contracts based on promise.
How the hell do you turn over 70% of your team in three years? Especially when they were at their best.
That is because the UAE cricketers are part-time cricketers. They basically form a team around who is available. It is hard for all the best cricketers there to be available at all times.
The 2015 UAE side was also very old with the majority of those guys being around for a long time, Taquir & Kurram Khan were in their 40’s I believe
Obviously a Zim win = we progress, but I'm more interested in the scenarios if there's a washout.
Basically the worst result I think would be a rain-affected loss. If we bat first and put up a modest total, UAE get 20 overs to chase a fraction of it... that would not be good.
Obviously a Zim win = we progress, but I'm more interested in the scenarios if there's a washout.
Basically the worst result I think would be a rain-affected loss. If we bat first and put up a modest total, UAE get 20 overs to chase a fraction of it... that would not be good.
I think we need to bowl first if we win the toss.
Sigh.
I really am invisible in this forum.
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Obviously a Zim win = we progress, but I'm more interested in the scenarios if there's a washout.
Basically the worst result I think would be a rain-affected loss. If we bat first and put up a modest total, UAE get 20 overs to chase a fraction of it... that would not be good.
I think we need to bowl first if we win the toss.
Sigh.
I really am invisible in this forum.
Don’t worry doggy I payed attention xx
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