Nick Welch and Eddie Byrom

[Detective RDS]

Nick Welch has played for Sussex 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 10719.html

Ed Byrom has played for Somerset 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 09741.html

Are they going for a career for England, can anybody confirm ?

[aydee]

Nick Welch has played for Sussex 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 10719.html

Ed Byrom has played for Somerset 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 09741.html

Are they going for a career for England, can anybody confirm ?

Yes, they are. Obviously. Byrom has been awarded a contract with Somerset for next year, I think, so he is the closer of the two to making a go of it.

[aydee]

Nick Welch has played for Sussex 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 10719.html

Ed Byrom has played for Somerset 2nd XI this summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe/en ... 09741.html

Are they going for a career for England, can anybody confirm ?

Yes, they are. Obviously. Byrom has been awarded a contract with Somerset for next year, I think, so he is the closer of the two to making a go of it.

In fact, nice conclusive answer from gargamel in the Guessing franchise squads thread.

[ZIMDOGGY]

I am very curious how financially it compares being a top ten Zimbabwe player and a county (non England) player.

Id love to see the salaries of Craig and Sean Ervine.

[Googly]

I would think they are fairly similar. The cost of living is much higher here though. As I said in an earlier post, it's going to be very interesting to see what happens with these bond notes. The gov is trying to get us back onto a completely worthless Zim currency and everybody's salaries are going to be in local currency. The looming disaster will be catastrophic. I heard that they were already trading informally at 30% below par yesterday. Will the centrally contracted players get USD and the franchise guys receive Zim dollars? Of course the admin will continue to receive crispy greenbacks. Klusener, Ntini, Streak?
I had a friend yesterday wish to withdraw U$150. He received 150 bonds. He went to the next teller and tried to deposit it to be told that the bank did not currently take bond note deposits. The fact is whatever people's/companies' balances were no longer exists and is now the soon to be worthless bond note equivalent.

[Googly]

Billions of dollars that companies and individuals have had in accounts has effectively been obliterated in my view. They will never see it again. This is an implosion not dissimilar, in cosmic terms, to the creation of a black hole.
I wonder if ZC was bright enough to keep some money offshore? I wonder what name the account is in?

[TapsC]

I think the likes of Craig and even Elton earn almost as much as a county player without an England contract especially if somebody like Elton then goes and plays in some t20 league. for me Welch and Byrom would be earning more playing for Zim if they ride it out for 2/3 years like what Burl is doing because they would become star players very quickly. look at the way PJ is already semi-established or even the way we were convinced musakanda has what it takes after 1 game. it wouldn't take long.

bond notes are certainly going to collapse whatever we have left and they are starving citizens off the USD so that we willingly accept the bond notes..scary times ahead

[Googly]

Unless ZC have been given assurances to the contrary I don't think we have 2-3 years left as a full member. They should issue a statement that ICC can endorse about what the future holds if they want to see some overseas players consider Zim as an option. Are we going to retain our status regardless of results? Are we going to retain our status if we don't qualify for the next WC? Why don't we know what ICC's view is of this last audit debacle? Nobody seems to be demanding answers.

[foreignfield]

NR Welch b Shahid Afridi 35

Slightly surreal, isn't it?

[TapsC]

since we are in India's pocket I think they won't get rid of us. we play a crucial role for india when it comes to voting on ICC business. it also looks like Ireland and Afghanistan will get test status in 2019 (but apparently won't be full members). I also think it would be quite harsh to get rid of a team which has beaten India Pakistan west indies New Zealand Australia and Bangladesh in one form of cricket or the other in the last 2/3 years. we are not completely hopeless.every sport has minnows. i believe our test record after 100 tests also isn't the worst in history