Zimbabwe announce bumper domestic season

[##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.

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 ?

Lol, What type of cream crop players Zimbabwe has been revealed in their performance. Zimbabwe last won an odi sereis was in 2015 against Ireland and last time when they beat a top team & win an odi sereis was against India in 1997.

2016 was full time bashing year for Zimbabwe starting with Afghans, early exit in T20 World Cup, India New Zealand in Tests, Sri Lanka in Tests & the Tri sereis where they registered one win due to the kind of nature.

What quality Zimbabwe Cream Players has is known to everyone know. 9 months left, and now it can be clearly said, Zimbabwe for the first time will be out of ICC 50 over World Cup 2019, UK. Earlier, they got kicked out from the Champions Trophy in 2018.

The talents, Masakadzas, Sibandas, Chigumburras, Chibhabha, Mutumbamis, Mowayo, Mpofu has, it can be predicted clearly, Zimbabwe Cricket are going to have worst day as they are continuing to persist with them and might vanish like Kenya.

Players like Musakanda, Chisoro or Mumba showed that talent is there in the local cricket. Its better to invest on locals who have talent, giving them proper chance with 8 teams, then selecting the useless old horse underperformers and getting bashed

[brmtaylor.com admin]

You don't think by increasing the number of teams you're actually diluting the talent pool?
With 8 teams you're just giving more opportunities to more mediocre talents.

To put it another way, why don't you think we should have 16 First Class teams?
Why stop at an arbitrary number like 8?

[##Dougie Mariller]

You don't think by increasing the number of teams you're actually diluting the talent pool?
With 8 teams you're just giving more opportunities to more mediocre talents.

To put it another way, why don't you think we should have 16 First Class teams?
Why stop at an arbitrary number like 8?

Are you a sooth sayer or God, that you are directly claiming that local players as mediocres, doesn't have any skills, without testing them ??

Local Cricket has given talents like MS Dhoni of India, Shane Warne of Australia, Chris Gayle of West Indies.

Its utter rubbish to judge a player as " Mediocre " without testing them, narrow minded thinkings are another reason for talents being ruuning out of Zimbabwe



LIST OF MEDIOCRES :
Masakadza, Sibanda, Chigumburra, Chibhabha, Mutumbami, Mowayo, Mpofu, Mutumbami, Malcolm Waller.......Look at their performances u can find who are mediocres.

[foreignfield]

Local Cricket has given talents like MS Dhoni of India, Shane Warne of Australia, Chris Gayle of West Indies.

You are right:

MS Dhoni -- A breakthrough season for Universals in the Vigne Cup quickly caught the eyes of the Indian selectors. The rest is history.

Shane Warne -- After polishing his skills on the slow turners of Buluwayo club cricket it was only a small step up to Test cricket. Locals still fondly remember "the real ball of the century" he once bowled to a young Bobby Mpofu. Bobby, the schoolboy batting prodigy, has never been the same batsman since.

Chris Gayle -- his love of gold chains brought him to Kwekwe early in his career where he once tonked an unsuspecting Kadoma CC bowler halfway back to where he came from. If he'd married at least one of the many local beauties he chatted up during his time here, he could have made it big in Test cricket for Zim.

[ljriley90]

You don't think by increasing the number of teams you're actually diluting the talent pool?
With 8 teams you're just giving more opportunities to more mediocre talents.

To put it another way, why don't you think we should have 16 First Class teams?
Why stop at an arbitrary number like 8?

Are you a sooth sayer or God, that you are directly claiming that local players as mediocres, doesn't have any skills, without testing them ??

Local Cricket has given talents like MS Dhoni of India, Shane Warne of Australia, Chris Gayle of West Indies.

Its utter rubbish to judge a player as " Mediocre " without testing them, narrow minded thinkings are another reason for talents being ruuning out of Zimbabwe



LIST OF MEDIOCRES :
Masakadza, Sibanda, Chigumburra, Chibhabha, Mutumbami, Mowayo, Mpofu, Mutumbami, Malcolm Waller.......Look at their performances u can find who are mediocres.

Aren't you Sincere? You sound like him a tad, but you type in lower case.

[CrimsonAvenger]

Shane Warne -- After polishing his skills on the slow turners of Buluwayo club cricket it was only a small step up to Test cricket. Locals still fondly remember "the real ball of the century" he once bowled to a young Bobby Mpofu. Bobby, the schoolboy batting prodigy, has never been the same batsman since.

Of course, we've heard stories that bowling in tandem with a budding Brian Murphy and getting some tips from him was the clincher...

[ZIMDOGGY]

Douggie/Sincere/Stoneman,
What you are failing to realise, even in your best case scenario of unearthing talented nobodies from the woodwork, is that with such a diluted competition (as I described in my long essay) you will never know if high achievers have the goods. Cricket is a funny game like this. You can have batsman come and doninate 115k attacks averaging 100 with a strike rate of 400, but as soon as the conditions change, the tempo rises to 125k and the spinners turn that little more....they can become instantly ineffective.
Club cricket is full of these popgun bullies..... A diluted competition won't separate the men from the boys.

[gargamel]

LOGAN CUP and ZPL have been called off no Bumper Domestic Season

[zimbofan88]

LOGAN CUP and ZPL have been called off no Bumper Domestic Season

Are you serious?

[Train Driver]

Hopefully gargamel is joking, if not then I think Zimbabwe have just cut their ties with test status at the very least, maybe a future tour of Syria could be arranged .....