Zimbabwe Squad for Sri Lanka

[secretzimbo]

You are so wrong to such a large extent that I can't even be particularly bothered replying fully.

But if the board have nothing to do with on field performance and it isn't in their remit, then how come Mukuhlani is mouthing off and suggesting changes? How come a board-appointed 'committee', consisting of three board members and led by a board member, is tasked with ivnestigaating the problems and suggesting solutions?

I thought it wasn't in their remit?

[eugene]

The admin side is mostly idiots, but the player culture is pretty poor as well. You see a player come through the system young and hungry, 3-5 years later they haven't improved at all, got fat, and are seemingly content with just making the team and not actually playing well. As long as they have money to go to Chicken Inn and buy a car nothing else matters. There is no one thing to blame for this culture, every facet of the game is failing and contributing to this mediocrity.

I'd be curious to know how much the team of the 90s trained compared to the current guys? Some of our internationals barely want to show up for domestic cricket, let alone training sessions. And then when we do have our handful of fixtures planned you've got guys pulling out due to vacations, weddings, etc. In other countries you have guys missing the birth of their own child to play, in Zimbabwe guys are dropping out to have a booze up at a friends wedding.

A lot has to change for Zimbabwe cricket to get better, but it is getting hard to know where to even start at this point.

[Googly]

We never play any of the big teams anymore. How do you improve? We mostly play these unbelievably stressful qualifiers that have given everyone PTSD.

[ZIMDOGGY]

I’d like us to play West Indies, Sri Lanka and NZ a little more. That’ll lift us and we have had success against them recently

[Googly]

You are so wrong to such a large extent that I can't even be particularly bothered replying fully.

But if the board have nothing to do with on field performance and it isn't in their remit, then how come Mukuhlani is mouthing off and suggesting changes? How come a board-appointed 'committee', consisting of three board members and led by a board member, is tasked with ivnestigaating the problems and suggesting solutions?

I thought it wasn't in their remit?

I doubt that committee will actually meet. It's just window dressing and a sham. They're still not serious and the clock is winding down. They might even select another committee to investigate further.
Why do they need one? Everyone knows what the problems are. They're in charge and they need a committee of people they essentially employ to tell them where they've gone wrong? Management will get a pass, that's guaranteed.
What's the upside of telling your boss he's a c£#?
What they're going to engineer is a fall guy...oh wait, that's been done already.
Bets on their findings?
If it was vaguely authentic would the findings be made public?
Who were the "stakeholders" that Mr Mukhulani addressed in Harare anyway?

We've already got an indication of some of the "recommended" remedial action-
Less money for the players across the board.
Performance based contracts, meaning even less money again because we're not likely to beat anyone.

[Pat_Bee]

lol on the flight back from the World Cup in 2022 raza was posting pictures of his three poor watches he’d won off ervine in some shady bet. Since then he’s been hidden down the order in the IPL, holed out to Scotland, holed out to Uganda and captained from the sidelines while serving a ban.

None of that can be laid at ZC’s door, the only part they played in his sorry saga is letting him have time off to chase franchise gigs. Raza is a senior pro and should be able to keep his affairs in order without ZC having to hold his hand onto the field of play.

ZC are winners who nurtured a side who beat Australia in Australia and took us to the World Cup. Every cock up since, every baffling moment since and there’s the same name at the centre of it

[secretzimbo]

You must be on the wind-up at this point.

[Pat_Bee]

They even pied off Rajput when that wasn’t working and appointed Dave. Total winner move that lol.

Honestly, those aforementioned social media posts were when I noticed the whole circus became the raza show. Dave lost the changing room alright, lost it to guys buying into the raza cricketing ethos. Believe their whole hype on a grand scale then fail to deliver.

Mukhulani didn’t hole out to Scotland, didn’t hole out to Uganda. He also didn’t promote Wellington, keep bowling Larry when he was getting tapped, promote himself to open in some dead rubber qualifiers or get himself a suspension. Nobody else did either.

[Googly]

The one worrying thing that has emerged is that it would appear that Ervine and Williams have lost their mojo for cricket. They seem to be going through the motions and being well paid for it. Without an enthusiastic core of senior players we're in big trouble. I think it's been like that for a while actually, but the situation is infinitely more dire now.

[eugene]

You can see it in their eyes, they aren't fighting for victory, they are just out there because it is better than the alternative of not being out there.