Zimbabwe announce bumper domestic season

[maehara]

Full fixture list is up at Cricinfo, who seem to be planning live coverage of pretty much everything. Will be interesting to see how long that lasts.

Also can't help but notice that they show a number of ZPL games as being played in this place called 'Salisbury'. #okaythen

[Train Driver]

Also can't help but notice that they show a number of ZPL games as being played in this place called 'Salisbury'. #okaythen

Cripes, Salisbury is a nice place but I reckon the players will need at least 3 sweaters to play in England at this time of year ....

[brmtaylor.com admin]

There's a street sign in the middle of Bulawayo that says:

SALISBURY >>>>
<<<< VICTORIA FALLS

[maehara]

There's a street sign in the middle of Bulawayo that says:

SALISBURY >>>>
<<<< VICTORIA FALLS

African bureaucracy. It's only been 34 years, give them time.

[aydee]

Full fixture list is up at Cricinfo, who seem to be planning live coverage of pretty much everything. Will be interesting to see how long that lasts.

Good. No sign of the T20 or List A though...

[TapsC]

im assuming the t20 and list A fixtures will be published later and will be held during winter. what does that mean for all those guys who played club cricket in the UK during that time? if you sign a contract then it looks like you can't play in the UK anymore because the schedules will clash.

[TapsC]

this is a step in the right direction if they are able to fund all these fixtures. national players will then always be playing some form of cricket as most of our home games are held between august and December anyway. its a shame that the franchise system didn't work because of the economic environment right now. its a huge burden that ZC has unlike other boards who don't have to bankroll all forms of cricket played in the country. something we don't always think about when we are criticizing them.

[maehara]

this is a step in the right direction if they are able to fund all these fixtures.

Emphasis added to the important part - which I'm not confident that they will be able to. I will be massively surprised if, come the planned end of the season, the full fixture list has been played - particularly the ZPL part of it...

[##Dougie Mariller]

40 Over ZPL should have been stopped, instead they should have done 8 teams in Logan Cup Four Day Matches, 50 overs One Day Matches & 2 T20 tournaments.

Greater number of teams will increase competation, new commers can show their skill and put pressure on the underperformed ones insteading of warming in the bench and carrying drinks in useless four franchise system.

[ZIMDOGGY]

40 Over ZPL should have been stopped, instead they should have done 8 teams in Logan Cup Four Day Matches, 50 overs One Day Matches & 2 T20 tournaments.

Greater number of teams will increase competation, new commers can show their skill and put pressure on the underperformed ones insteading of warming in the bench and carrying drinks in useless four franchise system.

Stop with this suggestion you keep saying, it won't work!

With only about 400 senior players in the entire country, it's moronic to make 100 of them professionals!
What's more, halfway through the season we will have about 8/9 injuries and an international tour that draws upon the top 15 players (who will no doubt average close to 100) and next thing you know, you have about 125 professional players throughout the country in one given season, about one third of the cricketing population....

An 8 team competition I myself can walk into, and that's telling.

First class cricket is for the cream of the crop. Mathematically you can argue that we have too many as it is with 4 teams.

Australia has about 80,000 senior cricketers and they only have SIX first class teams!

There is no way in hell it makes sense to have an 8 team first class season with such a shallow pool. Players will not develop into international players when they are facing 115 km/he openin bowlers!

Do you understand?

Directly reply telling me you understand ?