The John Ward column

[eugene]

Who is John Ward?

Are you new here?

Seems to be the new trend. After "who is Jakiel" and "who is John Ward", up next are "who is maehara" and "who is Andy Flower"

How could anyone not know who Jakiel is?

[Kriterion_BD]

Still no idea what he looks like

I am not embarassed to not know who he is now. Inhad assumed he was a white former administrator but curious as to.how he still has insider info given most whites have been driven out.

[eugene]

John Ward is the most respected journalist for Zimbabwean cricket, goes back to cricinfo's early days and his ZC Online newsletter which Satendra Singh frequented as a commenter.

John works fulltime for ZC so that he is why he is a reliable source of information.

[Kriterion_BD]

Ahh, OK. Always good to have insiders around. I have a couple insider friends at the BCB - well one guy is the nephew of the BCB vice president and he lives stateside so he doesn't have much info usually, lol. Do you know Ward outside of his role at ZC or did you somehow just luck out and get him as a contact?

[eugene]

Ahh, OK. Always good to have insiders around. I have a couple insider friends at the BCB - well one guy is the nephew of the BCB vice president and he lives stateside so he doesn't have much info usually, lol. Do you know Ward outside of his role at ZC or did you somehow just luck out and get him as a contact?

I just emailed him one day and he seems happy to stay in touch.

[Detective RDS]

Questions for John Ward.

1. How do you rate Tarasai Musakanda ? What can be done for his development purpose other than placing him in Zim A & Zim development XI ?
2. What will be your Zimbabwe development XI considering players who are available for selection ?

Thank you eugene.

[ZIMDOGGY]

Ahh, OK. Always good to have insiders around. I have a couple insider friends at the BCB - well one guy is the nephew of the BCB vice president and he lives stateside so he doesn't have much info usually, lol. Do you know Ward outside of his role at ZC or did you somehow just luck out and get him as a contact?

Bangladesh is very connection heavy isnt it?

i know one of the polticians sons, he lives here and tellsme to come over and he will get everything for me that i want.

he lives to excess.

[eugene]

John will need more time to answer the second question, but here are his thoughts on Musakanda.

Tarisai Musakanda seems to be maturing very rapidly. In the present series he has looked very sound, mature, composed and confident – perhaps a little too confident in yesterday’s match, but hopefully he has learnt a small lesson from that! On these performances he looks as if he may even be ready for Test cricket now, but it may be rather soon for that. But I don’t know him as a person; all I can say is the Pakistani bowlers are pretty good and he has consistently handled them better than anyone else in the team.

[sloandog]

A good, solid, exciting batter to fit nicely alongside Ervine and Williams in the middle order by the sounds of it!

[ZIMDOGGY]

guys calm down,
hes had a handful opf good scores, we have seen this before.

Players who come from nowhere and start scoring is a purple patch, not a star.