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It just comes down to the money. If the Tier 2 games are entirely funded by the ICC it will be interesting to see how much they steal because the funding will be more transparent. Will the Tier 2 teams get the same revenues from the World Cups as the Tier 1 teams? Our cricket has imploded for a mul...

The chat about the ICC proposals got my mind going. So herewith some thoughts on them following the New Zealand game: https://zimbabwecricketbook.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/why-the-icc-changes-could-save-zimbabwe-cricket/ Thus, having guaranteed fixtures, playing in neutral venues if need be is better...

The Zimbabwe team of the 90s would have had a very good win percentage had they faced associate nations as regularly as they do now. Absolutely. You could also argue that if Zimbabwe were still playing to that standard, they would still have regular fixtures against the top teams and wouldn't need ...

I don't know how realistic they are with a debt of $19m, so the proof will be in the pudding. And that answers the question I was going to ask when you mentioned the new domestic structure in the other thread. When Mukuhlani was voted in, IIRC the feeling here was that: - Manase had been doing good...

Good people of the forum. How! As some of you may know, Liam Brickhill and I have been working on a book on Zimbabwe cricket. There's still a lot of hard yakka ahead of us, but we have a lot of great material and the project is pretty exciting. Also, we've now launched a book blog, where we'll be po...

Some good points on here. Thanks all. With regards to his gripe about four franchises, I think he was complaining about the lack of second team cricket. I agree that four pemier domestic sides is a good number for Zim, if you want to have a competition of reasonable quality. But you need to have som...

Hi everyone Long-time reader; first-time poster. Just wanted to say how refreshing it is to see an intelligent, reasoned debate on the back of the piece. Just last week I was speaking to a fellow freelancer and we were bemoaning the lack of personal and/or stimulating feedback on articles. This foru...