Pro50 Championship 2023-24

[Pat_Bee]

I don’t know yo, say Nick gubbins comes over. Some kid with a sweet county gig. Get him in the national side ZC, give him citizenship. Like why would Nick gubbins even fancy that?!

[Pat_Bee]

In his yearbook at school it will read something like when I grow up I want to be earning $50 a season playing in Zim and can’t wait to have to buy my own lunch at chicken inn every day because the grounds and facilities are dog shit.

[secretzimbo]

They were all on the raza bandwagon last year hey.

then there’s the guys who think picking 11 murungus will solve the problems, based solely on them being murungus like what?! That’s like reverse quota.

Yes!!! Usually seems to be south Asians. They’ve never ever ever seen these guys actually play cricket but as soon as someone with a white sounding name plays at any level in Zim they instantly want them to captain the national side immediately South Asians seems the most racist of all, generally*.


* Not including some of the very knowledgeable south Asian posters we are lucky to have here.

[Pat_Bee]

They’re solely in it for the betting.

You’ve either got to have a vested interest or have something wrong with you to be following pro50 and Logan cup from the other slide of the world.

Local new fans tend to be into bandwagon-ism too. One I was talking to in the early stages of the t20 World Cup was totally convinced Williams needed dropping for Evans after a couple of low scores. Just got to smile and nod and hope stupid isn’t contagious.

There are also some extremely knowledgeable fans on social media so credit where it is due.

[CalZim]

You’ve either got to have a vested interest or have something wrong with you to be following pro50 and Logan cup from the other slide of the world.

Name a greater first class comp in the world...

To be fair I tend to watch a lot of African domestic cricket across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania.....so I agree some people are just weird

[Crastle_cog]

They were all on the raza bandwagon last year hey.

then there’s the guys who think picking 11 murungus will solve the problems, based solely on them being murungus like what?! That’s like reverse quota.

Yes!!! Usually seems to be south Asians. They’ve never ever ever seen these guys actually play cricket but as soon as someone with a white sounding name plays at any level in Zim they instantly want them to captain the national side immediately South Asians seems the most racist of all, generally*.


* Not including some of the very knowledgeable south Asian posters we are lucky to have here.

Even our parents are racist if they have a son/daughter who is mildly off colour yo . Racism is like breakfast here, we just don't take any offense to it mostly.

[pillowprocter]

have something wrong with you to be following pro50 and Logan cup from the other slide of the world.

Can confirm, there is definitely something wrong with me

[mnelson68]

Here's a sad fact- if you took a poll from current fans whether they could pick Naqvi, Ballance or BT 90% would jump on the Knackerville bus.
One unproven guy with a remarkable domestic record vs a couple of guys with international pedigree.

I'm just saying there are folk here desperately short of cricket acumen.

I'd be picking Ballance in front of BT only because he is 5 years younger

[zimfan1]

The 4 Pakistani bowlers are playing today. Dom Bess has joined the Rocks.

[Pat_Bee]

Hopefully young Naqvi will bounce back after that dodgy Uganda game last weekend.