Taibu ready to start Bill Flower Academy and release his autobiography

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:lol: now that’s funny!! :lol:

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ZIMDOGGY wrote:
Mon May 06, 2019 7:38 am

Imagine if you’re at the Coogee Pavillion and you’re talking about the footy on the big screen and you say ‘Burgess is a beefcake’ and then some guy in tight pants and a ponytail comes up behind you, taps you on the shoulder and with a lisp says ‘excuse me. Can you please not use the term ‘beefcake’ because my friend outside and I are actually vegans and we like find that so offensive ok? What would you think?
Because that’s the way this stuff is headed and it’s happening. Gotta draw that line and that line has to be what Zimbos is saying.
Use that same story but instead of the beef cake and the Vegan use a racially fuelled name and a person from that race
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jaybro wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 1:33 am


Use that same story but instead of the beef cake and the Vegan use a racially fuelled name and a person from that race
Context is important. There is no mention the name was racist. You are taking that line and running with it.

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zimbos_05 wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 7:39 am
jaybro wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 1:33 am


Use that same story but instead of the beef cake and the Vegan use a racially fuelled name and a person from that race
Context is important. There is no mention the name was racist. You are taking that line and running with it.
The whole point of this argument is that the name ‘nugget’ referred to his skin colour, if it didn’t then there’s no argument and no reason to be upset, which isn’t the case
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Former Zimbabwe Test captain @taibu44 on why he fled his homeland.

He speaks to @AlisonMitchell on #BBCStumped about his new book Keeper of Faith.

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https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/05/2 ... erseyside/

Taibu on settling down in Merseyside
May 26, 2019 in Sport
LIVERPOOL — Tatenda Taibu has, for one reason or another, spent a lot of his 36 years on the move.

Making waves as one of the first township boys to break into the Zimbabwe set-up; being named the first black captain of his country at the age of just 20; quitting over a pay dispute and having to flee with his family after some thinly-veiled threats from Mugabe’s ministers; coming back to the sport, then retiring again to focus more on his relationship with his God. It makes for a gripping autobiography, Keeper Of Faith.

But now, on Merseyside, Taibu finally feels settled.

“When you’ve got kids, they become the priority,” he explains. “When we moved to Merseyside, the boys really felt comfortable and they made friends quickly at their school. So for us, that’s the priority, and we’ve enjoyed the time we’ve been in Liverpool.”

Taibu is turning out for Formby and has contributed with both bat and ball to their flying start to the season.

His 6/11 against Colwyn Bay featured a hat-trick — and alerted many people to the fact he’s always been more than a wicketkeeper.

“If I wasn’t a keeper, I would have bowled more,” he says of his professional career. “Growing up, I used to keep for 15 overs, take-off my pads and bowl, then keep again. I did that in the 2002 U19 World Cup when I was player of the tournament.

“It just so happened on the day I got the 6/11 that the pitch was a little bit green and it was moving both ways.”

His attitude calls to mind the exhaustingly enthusiastic kid at your club who wants to bowl every over and bat every position —someone who loves the game too much to ever not be involved in it.

And it’s a good job he loves it, because cricket — or, at least, cricket politics — hasn’t always been kind to Taibu.

Part of a golden generation from the townships, Taibu was picked for Zimbabwe entirely on merit, but thrust into the limelight through a combination of political expediency and there being no-one else available. Captaining a losing side in a failing system at such a tender age would have broken many
cricketers, but Taibu remains stoical and positive throughout his story.

He says: “I think it goes back to my upbringing, having a father who was really tough, which I call tough love.

“I thought that prepared me to always look at the positives in life, and solutions rather than focusing on the problems at hand. So when I think of a bad patch, I would always try to look at the solution — how I could get out of that bad patch, especially if it was spending a bit more time in the nets, paying attention to detail when I was playing well, so that when I was playing badly I would always go back to my notes from when I was playing well.

“I’d look at myself and see what is the one technical thing that I was missing. I always found a way to focus on the solution.”
In his book, Taibu seems to linger more on the low points of his career, rather than the highs. It could be his Christian modesty — or it could just be the nature of the game.

“Generally, cricketers look at the failures more than the success, especially the batsmen,” he says.

“If you wanted to ask me how I got out, I’ll be able to tell you — but if you ask me the fours and sixes that I hit, there’ll be more of that, but the negatives are what you always bear in mind.

“I never played for myself, I always played for the team, and because we had more failures as a team, I was focusing more on that than my personal success.

“It really didn’t have much of an impact, though at the end of the day I ended up with a decent career.”

Decent indeed. His record of 1,500 Test runs at an average of 30 was no mean feat given the pressures of leading a desperately inexperienced side, more often than not in the throes of a batting collapse, and his expansive batting and lightning pace between the wickets were well-suited to the white-ball game.

Still, when that pay dispute —he was arguing for his teammates to be paid more, not himself — slammed the brakes on his career when he was just 22, it must have left a lot of what-ifs in its wake.

There’s a poignant passage in the book which Taibu almost glosses over. He recalls having a ringside seat watching Matthew Hayden bludgeon a world-record 380 at Perth in 2003, as one of the all-time great Australian sides put Taibu’s Zimbabwe to the sword. In a few years, he muses, Hayden, Warne, McGrath and the rest will be gone — but I’ll still be here. Because of politics, corruption, and corrupt politicians, it wasn’t to be.

“I’ve always tried to live my life in such a way that I don’t have any regrets,” he insists. “I would have loved a situation where I would have played against Australia when those experienced guys were no longer playing and I was experienced, but that never came to pass and we don’t know how that would have played out.

“It’s a bit unfortunate in many ways because we in Zimbabwean cricket didn’t continue on that path we were on. It was a good programme that really should have continued — there is still a lot of talent in Zimbabwe.”

That talent is now going to waste — because of years of mismanagement, and because the ICC gives the impression it simply doesn’t want to know.

This summer’s 10-team World Cup is a real bugbear to anyone who cares about cricket in the smaller or poorer nations, and Taibu is no exception. He reckons — with some justification —that the game’s governing body is looking elsewhere for its future.

He says: “If the ICC paid more attention to countries that had already been part of the World Cup — Kenya, Canada — then we’d end up with a proper World Cup.

“The ICC is more focused on the USA and China — that’s more likely to be because of the financial benefits, because they’ve got economies that are stable.

“If that focus had been more on countries that have been seen to produce players, then I’m sure we could have more teams participating in a World Cup.”

(Despite some gentle persuasion, he refuses to say England will lift the trophy — eventually allowing himself to be badgered into listing the hosts alongside New Zealand, India and Pakistan as his picks for the semi-finals.)

The World Test Championship, which begins this year, also excludes Zimbabwe, along with Test newcomers Ireland and Afghanistan.

“I’m a big fan of Test cricket,” says Taibu. “I think it’s the ultimate test of character, technique and mental strength. I think for players to constantly improve, they need to play Test cricket.

“There should be scope for Test cricket — but it is difficult because of the amount of T20 around the world. You can’t get better if you’re not playing.

“Zimbabwe played a part in bringing on Bangladesh because we constantly played them, and now they’re way above us.

“So if the other nations continue to play, that’s how they’ll get up to speed. If Afghanistan and Ireland play seven or eight Test matches a year, it will go a long way.”

One thing he’s clear about is that there will be no return to the international game. After playing for Hightown St Marys on his arrival in England, and helping them win promotion after a devastating clubhouse fire, now Taibu is focused on Formby — and loving every minute of it.

He says: “We’ve got a really young, vibrant side with really positive and talented players; we’ve won everything we’ve played so far, so I hope that continues.”

Keeper Of Faith by Tatenda Taibu is out now, published by Liverpool-based deCoubertin Books and priced £12.99.

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Finished reading Taibu’s book. He was a determined belligerent man, who for better or worse stood his ground against authority. His book mirrors what googly talks about daily, minus the Christianity!! A real shame he wasn’t allowed to continue his rising stars tours.
Shame it didn’t talk more about the cricket and named names!

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Ya Terry, these guys who write their bio’s irritate me. Just name and shame, they talk in bloody riddles.
As the author/publisher you can insure against possible lawsuits. I heard that Petersen had a 4m cover because he was expecting Flower to come after him. Maybe if Flower goes for the 4m and by prior arrangement splits it with Petersen they’ll all be happy? You just never know these days.

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They stopped that RS because Taibu is a threat to them.
“The honest fanatic is infinitely worse than the worst scoundrel!”
If he’d gained any traction at ZC he would have gone after Makoni, the real puppet master.

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Haven’t read it, but I do know a lot of people have a tendency to glamorise their stories m, They often come out the heroic or noble one. Even when people talk about their failures they often do it in a way to curry sympathy.

Perhaps Taibu is doing this if he hasn’t come out and named names.

I know he’s not the bad guy at all but for someone that’s positioning himself as the ZC liberator he did a terrible job in reality. Seems more just an outspoken grumbly employee than a man of action.

I can’t keep track but Googly has often mentioned times he could have stepped in and really thrown a spammer in the works. Not naming names as opposed to outing them seems another example.

Even though he was young and I can’t blame him, how good would it have been if he was part of the 2004 rebellion? His place in the boycott would have rewritten history I think. He was the black jewel at the time.
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