Is Blessing Muzarabani the least grateful cricketer in Zim?

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Is Blessing Muzarabani the least grateful cricketer in Zim?

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Blessing owes his career to Stephen Mangongo and more recently Heath Streak. Both were fired by ZC in unceremonious circumstances. Blessing could have taken a stand against these unjust ZC decisions but chose not to. Blessing could have taken a stand against ZCs corruption and greed but he chose not to. Now yes, Blessing is a young cricketer but he already knew he was moving on, he had no retribution to fear. A young black player taking a stand against ZC would mean 1000 times more than BT, Raza, Ervine, or Williams in the current political environment. Instead he chose to play anyway, pick up a few extra dollars and then piss off anyway. He had a chance to make a real difference in Zimbabwe cricket and chose a few KFC vouchers instead. My guess is Blessing will come crawling back in a year or two after he has been spat out the bottom of boozers village cricket in the UK. Hopefully by then we will have unearthed some superior bowlers and will no longer need him.
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So much fire in this post my eyes started to burn reading it.
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I actually made a post with similar sentiment not long ago.

And yes, hes proven himself to be a dropkick. I also think hes turned his back on the people who made him, Taibu and Streak.
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Fast bowling talent in Zimbabwe is at the bottom. Only two fast bowlers looked threatening after 2010, baned Brian Vitori & Kyle Jarvis. Chatara has been once in a blue moon bowler.
Mpofu, Tiripano, Shingi are average standard.

Zimbabwe will definately miss Muzarabani.In Pakistan Series, he was seen using his advantage of height in his bowling, could have been a match winner in upcomming years, in english condition coaches will ask him to give effort in swing & seam, like they did it to Jarvis as a result Muzarabani might be a yard slow on his return

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Wow, I don't feel this strongly.

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I think Eugene has forgotten we’ve sacked Hhm and there’s no one that will take the bait :lol:

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eugene wrote:
Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:20 am
Blessing owes his career to Stephen Mangongo and more recently Heath Streak. Both were fired by ZC in unceremonious circumstances. Blessing could have taken a stand against these unjust ZC decisions but chose not to. Blessing could have taken a stand against ZCs corruption and greed but he chose not to. Now yes, Blessing is a young cricketer but he already knew he was moving on, he had no retribution to fear. A young black player taking a stand against ZC would mean 1000 times more than BT, Raza, Ervine, or Williams in the current political environment. Instead he chose to play anyway, pick up a few extra dollars and then piss off anyway. He had a chance to make a real difference in Zimbabwe cricket and chose a few KFC vouchers instead. My guess is Blessing will come crawling back in a year or two after he has been spat out the bottom of boozers village cricket in the UK. Hopefully by then we will have unearthed some superior bowlers and will no longer need him.
I disagree Senior players like, Hamilton Masakadza, Mire ,Chatara & Tiripano were not on strike so why should Blessing a youngster join the strike and come off as an undisciplined brat...

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Those guys you mentioned perhaps didn't want to strike as they feared reprisal, they didn't have other career options lined up. Blessing did, and thus should have seen the opportunity to make a stand.
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eugene wrote:
Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:20 am
Blessing owes his career to Stephen Mangongo and more recently Heath Streak. Both were fired by ZC in unceremonious circumstances. Blessing could have taken a stand against these unjust ZC decisions but chose not to. Blessing could have taken a stand against ZCs corruption and greed but he chose not to. Now yes, Blessing is a young cricketer but he already knew he was moving on, he had no retribution to fear. A young black player taking a stand against ZC would mean 1000 times more than BT, Raza, Ervine, or Williams in the current political environment. Instead he chose to play anyway, pick up a few extra dollars and then piss off anyway. He had a chance to make a real difference in Zimbabwe cricket and chose a few KFC vouchers instead. My guess is Blessing will come crawling back in a year or two after he has been spat out the bottom of boozers village cricket in the UK. Hopefully by then we will have unearthed some superior bowlers and will no longer need him.
How many times have the ZIM players gone on strike in just the past few years? It never does any good.

As long as crooks are running the show, things wont change, and if all of the top 100 cricketers in ZIM went on strike, the ZC would just find the next group of XI players who were willing to play and get paid 6 months late. If those guys strike ZC will simply move on down the list. Even if they ran out of cricket players, they'd just find random people to go out there and swing a bat around and throw the ball.

Blaming Blessing or any other player is futile. They can't effect change, only an ICC suspension can, and even then the damage was probably catastrophic 10 years ago.
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The strikes in Zimbabwe would be far more effective if the black players for once would actually take the lead. Why must it always fall to the white players to make a stand, a stand that is easily neutralized by people crying racism.
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eugene wrote:
Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:08 am
The strikes in Zimbabwe would be far more effective if the black players for once would actually take the lead. Why must it always fall to the white players to make a stand, a stand that is easily neutralized by people crying racism.
Black players have stood up, but I fail to see what good that would do.

Previously ZC were guaranteed their share of the ICC revenue no matter what happened (prolly just had to arrange the domestic cricket in order to qualify for the disbursement). Now there is just new "drip feed" design which in a way is worse because players will get paid every time the money comes in, and the ZC will just continue as always.

The real fault is in the ICC and how they got duped into not suspending Zimbabwe. This pay-ZC-as-needed thing does help ensure that players will get paid when money is available. But it also doesn't really do much to ZC asides from perhaps limiting them from stealing the funds.

The only thing that would work would be a total suspension of the ZC and once the money dries out completely, the ZC would collapse.

But then they'd be right back as soon as ZC got restarted again.
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