Re: U19 World Cup Jan 2026 | Super 6 | Zim vs India

[Marshmallow]

Zimbabwe lost their final six wickets for just six runs

[andrea lanzoni]

Blignaut, Chiwaula are playing sensibly.

Nobody has ever dreamed to win today. It's important how these boys can hold out achieving experience.

Scoring 150 runs could have been acceptable. It seems they may do better than this.

What I truly hope is they may resist all 50 overs against India. This would be an accomplishment to mark.

Are you going to the World Cup Andrea?

Well... no: In the same period there are the Olympics in Milan.
The new ice hockey arena is just 2 Km away from my home.
I bought tickets for hockey and indeed never expected Italy could be in WT20 party

[ZIMDOGGY]

Blignaut, Chiwaula are playing sensibly.

Nobody has ever dreamed to win today. It's important how these boys can hold out achieving experience.

Scoring 150 runs could have been acceptable. It seems they may do better than this.

What I truly hope is they may resist all 50 overs against India. This would be an accomplishment to mark.

Are you going to the World Cup Andrea?

Well... no: In the same period there are the Olympics in Milan.
The new ice hockey arena is just 2 Km away from my home.
I bought tickets for hockey and indeed never expected Italy could be in WT20 party

You should try and do your best to go. Doubt you'll get the chance to see Italy in the cup again soon.
if we see on tv a big taped up beachball floating around the crowd we'll know you made it

[andrea lanzoni]

Are you going to the World Cup Andrea?

Well... no: In the same period there are the Olympics in Milan.
The new ice hockey arena is just 2 Km away from my home.
I bought tickets for hockey and indeed never expected Italy could be in WT20 party

You should try and do your best to go. Doubt you'll get the chance to see Italy in the cup again soon.
if we see on tv a big taped up beachball floating around the crowd we'll know you made it

I'd be more keen to join cricket and tourism and go for Countries more appealing to me such as Zimbabwe and SouthAfrica for next Cup.
If I happen to come to Zimbabwe it would be a pleasure to meet you guys of this forum

[ZIMDOGGY]

Well... no: In the same period there are the Olympics in Milan.
The new ice hockey arena is just 2 Km away from my home.
I bought tickets for hockey and indeed never expected Italy could be in WT20 party

You should try and do your best to go. Doubt you'll get the chance to see Italy in the cup again soon.
if we see on tv a big taped up beachball floating around the crowd we'll know you made it

I'd be more keen to join cricket and tourism and go for Countries more appealing to me such as Zimbabwe and SouthAfrica for next Cup.
If I happen to come to Zimbabwe it would be a pleasure to meet you guys of this forum

Pretty much only Googly will rock up with TapsC in the passenger seat. Most of the forum are closer to you than there.

[Pat_Bee]

I’d turn up it would be rude not to see what Frank Mawoza is up to

[eugene]

We need to arrange a ZCF Convention in Zimbabwe during the ODI CWC. Invite Frank Mawoza to be the guest speaker.

[Andy31]

We need to arrange a ZCF Convention in Zimbabwe during the ODI CWC. Invite Frank Mawoza to be the guest speaker.

I assume his topic would be mental gymnastics.
Twitter the last few days has, very much been grab your popcorn.

[Googly]

We need to arrange a ZCF Convention in Zimbabwe during the ODI CWC. Invite Frank Mawoza to be the guest speaker.

I assume his topic would be mental gymnastics.
Twitter the last few days has, very much been grab your popcorn.

Ya there's a lot going on there on twitter. Its extremely nasty.
The preoccupation with Dirk Viljoen is weird. He worked there until recently so something major must have gone down for them to turn on him like that. The 14 average over 50 odd games is exactly what is going on right now though with a lot of players, not just one, but that's conveniently overlooked.

I'd like to know who Dirk kept out of the team over that period. Fair odds it would have been another white guy.
I'm not too familiar with other peripheral players over that period. If it had been a black player we would surely would have heard the poor guy's name by now. Maybe at domestic level there really wasn't anyone of any colour sticking their hand up to replace him?
As I said I'd have to do a deep dive to remember which players were around in that era.

I see Ed Rainsford is talking the numbers game of how many people play cricket in NZ and England. It's obviously been a topic of conversation after ZC have basically said we can't win a game against the big teams who have billions of people- maths is an issue.
He doesn't know how they produced Kane Williamson.
Well look no further than how did we produce Andy Flower from a lot less players. Seems to me that we can just ask Flower himself, we don't have to guess.
Pay him to net with our best players, watch and talk with all our players and get him to pick the guys he thinks will stand the best chance at the highest level. He's right here and doing not a lot except eat chips. He could pick our HPC squad.

ZC are saying it is a numbers game, so then reducing our player pool down to one school and one race, and only certain people within that race requires explanation.
Is it a numbers game or isn't it?

[Googly]

Just listened to Dave Houghton on Dean's podcast.
Well worth a listen, especially if you want to burst into tears at how low we have sunk.
Times have changed as well. Touring sides used to love coming here and we had earned some respect as opposition and definitely as hosts. Now we are treated with contempt and indifference as a rule. That's a bitter pill, but that has to be earned, not inherited.
Houghton himself said indirectly that we were at a fork in the road. If he was the new HPC coach would he not have directly said so? I wonder what is going on there? If he's not the man then what/how/who? I'm willing to bet that if there is an issue a part of the problem will be about squad selection or how it should be run.
In his quiet way he basically said the selectors did not have a clue, which is mostly true, but the real issue is folk with an agenda and/or following instructions.