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ZIMBABWE Cricket chief Ozias Bvute has blamed the rich pickings in the game for destroying the will to succeed for local players.
A national team player earns an average of US$6 000 a month, excluding incentives. Despite being knocked out of the World Cup at the first hurdle, each member of the squad was guaranteed of US$20 000, for their participation.

Bvute said most players lost it once they start getting a lot of money and their will to succeed evaporated.

Cricket players have been a subject of public ridicule after their inept showing at the World Cup where they only won two matches against minnows Kenya and Canada.
Fans also pointed out that the players clearly lacked hunger for success.

Cricket players are among the best paid sportsmen in Zimbabwe and should be playing for the love of the sport, but results were not proportionate to the huge salaries they pocketed compared to the average local worker, and Bvute said this represented a grave danger for the future of the local game.

“We have done everything as an administration to best equip the team to compete at the highest stage,” Bvute told Independent Sport.
“We have hired some of the best coaches in the world. The players are well paid and well looked after, and we had some of the best preparations prior to the World Cup but the results are a bit disappointing. We would have wanted them to do better,” he said.
Bvute said the best available players were selected for the World Cup but most of them lacked the mental strength required to shine at such premier global stages.

He also blamed some players’ social backgrounds for destroying the fabric of the game saying some players “grow up in poverty and when they start playing cricket and suddenly have a lot of money, they tend to lose the will to succeed”.

Bvute said ZC is going to invest in the mental psyche of the players to make them more responsible and maintain the hunger for success.
“Look at how Craig Ervine has been developing. This is the way we want all our players to be progressing. He will end up like Andy Flower because he works hard and is willing to keep improving,” he said.

Plans were afoot to improve the quality of the national team and the sport in the country through developmental programmes aimed at increasing the player pool to about 250 000 in four years. Bvute hopes that expanding the player base would help build a team that can truly compete against the best.
There are currently around 150 players playing the game professionally in Zimbabwe, but only 25 can be considered to be close to possessing the qualities for national selection.

“We are competing against nations with populations of about a billion and these nations have more than a million players to choose from, but that is not an excuse. What we want is to increase our player base so that we create more competition.”

CrimsonAvenger wrote:A national team player earns an average of US$6 000 a month, excluding incentives. Despite being knocked out of the World Cup at the first hurdle, each member of the squad was guaranteed of US$20 000, for their participation.

CrimsonAvenger wrote:Bvute said most players lost it once they start getting a lot of money and their will to succeed evaporated.

CrimsonAvenger wrote:Cricket players have been a subject of public ridicule after their inept showing at the World Cup where they only won two matches against minnows Kenya and Canada.

CrimsonAvenger wrote:“We have hired some of the best coaches in the world. The players are well paid and well looked after, and we had some of the best preparations prior to the World Cup but the results are a bit disappointing. We would have wanted them to do better,”

CrimsonAvenger wrote:He also blamed some players’ social backgrounds for destroying the fabric of the game saying some players “grow up in poverty and when they start playing cricket and suddenly have a lot of money, they tend to lose the will to succeed”.

CrimsonAvenger wrote:Bvute said ZC is going to invest in the mental psyche of the players to make them more responsible and maintain the hunger for success.

CrimsonAvenger wrote:“We are competing against nations with populations of about a billion and these nations have more than a million players to choose from, but that is not an excuse. What we want is to increase our player base so that we create more competition.”

americanzimfan wrote:Somehow I think Mr. Bvute makes more than $6000 US a month...its amazing he can be critical of anyone.

“We have done everything as an administration to best equip the team to compete at the highest stage,” “We have hired some of the best coaches in the world. The players are well paid and well looked after, and we had some of the best preparations prior to the World Cup but the results are a bit disappointing. We would have wanted them to do better,”
“grow up in poverty and when they start playing cricket and suddenly have a lot of money, they tend to lose the will to succeed”

“Look at how Craig Ervine has been developing. This is the way we want all our players to be progressing. He will end up like Andy Flower because he works hard and is willing to keep improving,”

Plans were afoot to improve the quality of the national team and the sport in the country through developmental programmes aimed at increasing the player pool to about 250 000 in four years. Bvute hopes that expanding the player base would help build a team that can truly compete against the best.
There are currently around 150 players playing the game professionally in Zimbabwe, but only 25 can be considered to be close to possessing the qualities for national selection.

“We are competing against nations with populations of about a billion and these nations have more than a million players to choose from, but that is not an excuse. What we want is to increase our player base so that we create more competition.”