ZC to launch inquiry over performance in NZ

[sscricket]

Credit to the selectors for picking the right team.

Vusi would not have made a difference. It was a collective failure and the bowling unit was horrendous.

The quartet was poor tactically sticking to conventional choices and BT's captaincy was poor. The man does not use his head.

There was a tactical and mental failure which was obvious to everyone.

[bayhaus]

Inquiry for what toactually hold someone accountable? I am sure they were just waiting for this and Coltart gave them the endorsement they needed. I am noyt holding my breathe as to what ZC will do but am surely interested to hear the result. So each person will be questioned one at a time, actually we need an INDEPENDENT inquiry headed by the fans...

[tawac]

ZC is to blame, heads have got to roll. Taylor should be honorably and step down as captain. Doubt if this inquiry will be helpful if we don't see radical changes at ZC and the team.

[zimbos_05]

Credit to the selectors for picking the right team.

Vusi would not have made a difference. It was a collective failure and the bowling unit was horrendous.

The quartet was poor tactically sticking to conventional choices and BT's captaincy was poor. The man does not use his head.

There was a tactical and mental failure which was obvious to everyone.

Right team???? i can think of about 3 players who should have been on this tour instead.

Taylor is not tactical and that comes down to the coaching that he is recieving. He needs someone who is smart and is able to not only coach a side, but also a captain. At the moment, Taylor is still young in his captaincy and it will take a while before he is up to the world class standards.

What we need is a manager and coach who will be able to take this team forward and not stay staganant as we currently are. They need to instill confidence in the boys to go out there and play their shots and chase the games. Not go out there and play every innings like a test.

[Jemisi]

Fielding. If a player won't improve and keeps having pathetic failures we need to axe them. Dropped catches are consistently costing us 50 runs or more. Not to mention our poor outcricket.

[bayhaus]

the fact that he has gone out an dspoken about an inquiry means nothing will come of it. Remeber the inquiry into the world cup and the selectors eventually axed?Of course not cos there wasnt one. Anyway, anyone savvy of inquiries/inquests/commissiions established in Zimbabwe, there might be scapegoat, but nothing radical will happen, like Ozias launching an inquiry and finding Ozias, Chingoka and Ali Campbell (yes AC is now part of this posse) guilty and stepping down?

[CrimsonAvenger]

ZC response reported: http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-0 ... our-fiasco

The following is a statement by Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) managing director Ozias Bvute, responding to Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister
David Coltarts criticism:
We understand fully the Ministers frustration both as the relevant authority of sport and as a cricket fan. The performance of our national team in New Zealand has been a disappointment to us as well and indeed the nation as a whole.

It would not be proper to try and find excuses as to what went wrong save to apologise to the nation and ensure our supporters that a full enquiry into our shortcomings will be made.

This tour has been the first of its kind for Zimbabwe in many years and while we were aware that traditionally, away from home tours tend to post less impressive results, we had hoped for a more spirited display in all aspects of the game.

The issue of selection has and will always be a contentious one and the notion of the ideal team will vary from person to person, which is why such decisions are left to a selection panel which in turn is made up of experts in the game and former players.

The size of the touring party is determined by the needs of our team and the composition of our currently touring side is in fact at par with that of other cricketing nations embarking on tours of this nature.

The ratio of technical staff to players is always kept at a balance that ensures that playing strategies can be enhanced when needed or specialist players brought in as was done in the case of Graeme Cremer and Prosper Utseya.

For anyone to suggest that a committee would deliberately sabotage the success of the national team is unfortunate. These gentlemen are motivated solely by the greater interest of cricket.

In the case of Vusi Sibanda, the Cricket Committee made up of Alistair Campbell, Dave Houghton, Jason Gillespie, Freddy Kapuya, Cyprian Mandenge, Kevin Curran, Trevor Mutangadura and Wilfred Mukondiwa engaged him on the matter of leaving the local league to go and play for a club in Australia and advised him that such a decision would jeopardise his eligibility for national selection.

He chose to pursue it nonetheless. Our standard policy is that we provide no objection to players spending time abroad to improve their game and the practice is even encouraged by the Zimbabwe Cricket Board. The condition, however, is that the player fulfils a certain number of games in our league.

The reasoning behind this is that should senior players be allowed to travel abroad without restriction, there would invariably never be any seasoned cricketers in the country and the role these play in imparting experience to younger players and improving the level of the game is invaluable.

In the past, we have given Vusi (Sibanda) and other players no-objection certificates and we will continue to do so in the future, so long as this is within the confines of our policy. This is the best way to get a return on the investment we have made in these players.

Again though, things do go wrong and once the team returns next week, we do have a reporting and review structure that allows us to do a post-mortem of the entire tour and we will then have a clearer picture of what led to Zimbabwes poor performance.

[Lostart]

All the hallmarks of a witch hunt in this. Looks like things are degenerating once again into petty in fighting. One bad tour is all it takes for everyone to start pointing fingers and calling for people's heads. Yes emotion is running high from the absolute thrashing we got. But really you don't build a team and team spirit buy wielding the axe every time there is a hiccup. Seriously, we need a review of the tour, of that there is no doubt, but replacing staff and all that is a bit premature. Who would want to coach Zim anyway, especially if we become another Pakistan where as soon as something goes wrong there is immediate firings and people being dropped randomly. Who really gave us a chance on our first tour to NZ in over a decade? Hell india and other better sides than us don't fare so well there, conditions are very different to ours. Ok admittedly we played some absolutely awful cricket and that needs to be addressed, especially feilding, WTF......happened there???? We used to be pretty good at that. All i am saying is that going into this inquiry like the Gestapo ain't gonna do the boys very fragile confidence much good.

[Flower power]

There is never an inquiry that will result in the entire board resigning , its always the players , the selectors or the foreign conditions that are always blamed ........

[ZIMDOGGY]

Calls for heads to roll is pretty standard in most sports after horrid performances