How can one person be the future of Zim cricket? There are literally dozens of Mashevere's throughout the other nations, particularly England, India and Australia.
Marumani would have to relearn his technique to ever be better than Myers. Great hand eye only gets you so far, if you don't have some fundamentals and a game plan you will be found out at the higher levels of cricket, particularly internationals.
Shumba is not the cleanest hitter we've had. I'm not knocking him, he's decent and had two good innings of late. One swallow doesn't make a summer, he has to build on that. We will soon see.
The upcoming internationals will put it all in perspective once again for us. We are struggling against Associates.
We are getting left further behind every day. Unless you have a bunch of extraordinary cricketers who have a full international schedule so they don't have to play too much domestic cricket you are only as good as your first class standard. You might find that's why a couple of players avoided playing FC, if it's a poor standard there's no real upside.
Lucrative T20 contracts are only given to world class players. Burl, Muzarabani and Raza in particular have been a bit fortunate getting T20 gigs. I'm not sure how Burl or Raza ever got picked ahead of Taylor. You generally only get them if your national side is doing well and you put in a couple of match winning performances, we don't play many T20's and generally get beaten. We've had some picks in the lesser T20 competitions on the strength of the fact that we are a full member so we must be good. That ship has left the harbour. Member nations avoid us like the plague and Associates want our spot and the crazy amount of money we get and constantly abuse. The reality is that we are very poorly placed. The most we can hope for is to beat Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Afghanistan, UAE and now Namibia fairly consistently. That gap has closed, we are right in the middle of that lot now.