Glamorgan and Durham to tour Zimbabwe

[secretzimbo]

Makes you appreciate how good English domestic cricket is. These are division 2 teams! Beating a national side haha.

I suspect the top counties - Surrey, Lancs etc - could beat most international side when at full strength

[secretzimbo]

I’m not sure Williams is available.

Obviously Raza strengthens us massively. We are still missing an opener though. It’s interesting that Chamu didn’t play today, I wonder why? I expect he’ll open with Kaia

[Googly]

Makes you appreciate how good English domestic cricket is. These are division 2 teams! Beating a national side haha.

I suspect the top counties - Surrey, Lancs etc - could beat most international side when at full strength

There's not a big difference between Div 1 and Div 2. On any given day the smaller teams can win.

[TapsC2]

One day they are going to have to do a proper cost/ benefit analysis of Williams' half in/half out approach compared to using that money for another import between Welch and Byrom if they are interested. Or maybe even both of them depending on how much Williams is on. These kids are going to embarrass us if we don't plan accordingly.

[tej_27]

I hate the fact that before every series i have to literally pray that Williams has not retired

[secretzimbo]

I hate the fact that before every series i have to literally pray that Williams has not retired

The last 10 years of being a Zimbabwe fan in 1 sentence.

[Googly]

One day they are going to have to do a proper cost/ benefit analysis of Williams' half in/half out approach compared to using that money for another import between Welch and Byrom if they are interested. Or maybe even both of them depending on how much Williams is on. These kids are going to embarrass us if we don't plan accordingly.

Don't be misled by which players have to go without in order to look overseas for a player
There are plenty of pointy shoes fellas that don't even work one hour a year that can be retired.

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https://youtu.be/zfj_VM1Jneo

[mnelson68]

Surely Maramuni and Madhavere have had their last chance. Cannot continue to gift games to these guys based on potential. They both need to work on the way they play and get mentally tougher. For me Chibabha opens and Campbell takes Williams spot if he's still injured. No more chances

[TapsC2]

Surely Maramuni and Madhavere have had their last chance. Cannot continue to gift games to these guys based on potential. They both need to work on the way they play and get mentally tougher. For me Chibabha opens and Campbell takes Williams spot if he's still injured. No more chances

I have to agree with this as things stand. What you will also find is that Campbell might not be as talented but he will take his opportunity more seriously simply because it wasn't gifted to him. He has had to grind for years. It isn't a good look because both Wes and Marumani play like they know they will have another chance no matter what.

This experiment of just playing kids based off potential just isn't working. You get Chamu and Campbell scoring 50s then Marumani and Wes are picked based off potential and they produce nothing once again. In fact I haven't seen Marumani succesfully play his aggressive game against any decent opposition ever. Not even once. Unlike Madande and Wes he doesn't do anything else. He isn't producing anything. That's the honest truth.

This is why I was also saying that there is no guarantee that these kids will win you the T20 qualifiers. It's a big big risk. They will panic.