ZC Women's Cricket

[tawac]

ICC AFRICA WOMEN’S WORLD TWENTY20 QUALIFIERs

Zimbabwe seems to be doing well two out of two wins thus far. Thought someone like Jimmysaint would be championing the womens game. But good going thus far.

Zimbabwe to host ICC Africa Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier

Zimbabwe will host the 2016 ICC Africa Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Harare from 23 to 27 April 2016.

The participants in the four-team tournament will be Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

The 20-over tournament will be contested on a round-robin basis, with the team that finishes with the most points winning the regional event and proceeding to the global qualification tournament for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in the West Indies.

Zim vs Tanzania 1st Match


Tanzania 36/8 (20 ov) (Swedi 10, Omary 6; Mutasa 3/6, Marange 2/6)
Zimbabwe 38/1 (9.0 ov) (Mupachikwa 20, Marange 18*; Salamu 1/8)

Zim vs Uganda 2nd Match

Zim women who won by 6 wickets
Uganda 71/8 (20 ov)
Zimbabwe 72/4 (12.4 overs)

[ZIMDOGGY]

How come jimmy would champion it?

[tawac]

Jimmy is one of the few women on this forum.

[ZIMDOGGY]

Sigh,
Tawac I'll let you in on a little something.

Jimmy was being sarcastic about being a woman. He is clearly not a woman.
Jimmy has also claimed to be black, white, Asian, a player, an official etc.
That is the running joke, he is being mysterious and claiming to be everything!
I presume he does that to hide his identity and to make a statement that opinions should be be linked to race or demographics etc

The woman claim was especially obvious .
Everything about that post and the post after indicated he was saying it in jest and mockingly.
He was even mocking people who believed it at the time 'oh yes big boy' etc.

It pays to have a sarcasm radar

[eugene]

jimmylesaint is Mangongo.

[watermelon]

The women are no good and an embarrassment.

As a test playing team they should be beating teams on the regular.
Instead we get people like Rainsfords sister showing up to make he numbers.

I'm sure they are lovely people but i guess cricket mediocrity runs in the family.

-watermelon.

[foreignfield]

I'm so tired of these generalisations. Yes, Zim is lagging behind in the women's game, sure ... but what about the reasons? How many girls' schools play cricket, how many women actually play the game? When did competitive womens' cricket even start in Zim (it surely didn't during the colonial era)? And related to that: Why is women's cricket, it seems, almost unheard of in the white community? I've asked these questions numerous times, and none of our men on the ground has ever provided the tiniest bit of an answer, discounting hhm's machismo "African girls can't play ball" stereotypes.

If I'm not mistaken Zim Women played their first international match in 2006! And Yvonne Rainsford hasn't played for them since 2008!!!

Rant over, congratulation time: although scorecards are not available, as neither the ICC nor ZC bother to publish them, a little bird tells me the girls have won it convincingly: In further matches they beat Kenya twice, reaching 147/8 once (no idea how many Kenya got in reply) and 141/6 in the second match with Marange top-scoring with a cool 71, before bowling out Kenya for 73. They also easily chased Tanzania's 67/8 in a nine-wicket stroll.

And they are keeping up the tradition of cute little keepers

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