Zimbabwe U19WC Squad Announced

[ZIMDOGGY]

Unless somethin has changed the last twenty years when I was in school.
There is cricket during summer that kids can choose or try out for that they play on Thursday afternoons. Theres no real pathway to anything though. It's just doing something to fill the allocated sport time. I think there might be a token representative carnival for the best from the competitions but that's about it.

It's the winter sports that Australia is serious about, and that includes schools.
On the east coast, the dozen elite/private/boarding schools play rugby union, and that would be the closest model to the Zim setup. Scholarships to coconut kids and country kids are included. These schools are rich (you'd need to be a millionaire to afford the fees) but it means they have money, and this is the only reason Union is alive and Australia are a top 10 country still.
The other 95% of schools would play rugby league and scouts follow these comps a lot closer and these have a televised competition, at least they did. Was surreal seeing school kids above me on tv.

On the west and southern states, replace both rugby codes with AFL. It's more a monolith there. Terry alderman is no doubt from these states by the way he described his post. I don't know if they have televised school comps though. Winter sporting interests is regional in Australia. Cricket is not followed nearly as passionately as AFL and league and that's why so many kids destined for cricket greatness opt out of cricket when they have a choice between that and the NRL/AFL, but cricket does strongly benefit as having no natural competitors in summer and seeing cricket on tv all summer is sort of ingrained culturally even of people are arm chair followers.

[jontym87]

The patently false propaganda Mawoza and his little lap-bitch Jonty have put out on social media over the last 24 hours is sickening really.

Go suck your mama!

How embaressing

Well disrespect me I will go low without shame.

When it comes to disrespect it’s anger and eye for an eye with me. It’s an eye for two!

[jontym87]

The patently false propaganda Mawoza and his little lap-bitch Jonty have put out on social media over the last 24 hours is sickening really.

Go suck your mama!

Go suck your Mawoza!

Before I do that show me how it’s done on your mama.

[zimfan1]

This is the best first ten overs we have had with the ball for a while. have not really rated Mazvitorera before but his first spell has been really good against the dangerous Minhas.

[Andy31]

This is the best first ten overs we have had with the ball for a while. have not really rated Mazvitorera before but his first spell has been really good against the dangerous Minhas.

His bowled well. That Kirby who bowled the other day, I really liked the look of.

[zimfan1]

Dibbly dobblers with the keeping standing up is the biggest takeaway from this series so far

[Marshmallow]

Pakistan allout for 208.
Mazai with 4 wickets

[Mueddie28]

Pakistan allout for 208.
Mazai with 4 wickets

So a final with NO RESULT
C'MON ZC..

[Googly]

It is apparently rescheduled for tomorrow, weather permitting. We had some crazy rain yesterday.

Big rain in KweKwe as well, wonder how that will affect the T20's. I see theyve changed the bonus system to try and encourage teams to score over 160.
The scoring rate in our T20's is largely a function of the pitches not being T20 pitches. The rain has played a major part, as it usually does, but the prep this season has been the worst in many years.
You can't hit thru the line on these pitches, you genuinely have to wait for the bad ball. Its been like that for a long time and it really has affected batters' development in this format.

[aydee]

It is apparently rescheduled for tomorrow, weather permitting. We had some crazy rain yesterday.

Big rain in KweKwe as well, wonder how that will affect the T20's. I see theyve changed the bonus system to try and encourage teams to score over 160.
The scoring rate in our T20's is largely a function of the pitches not being T20 pitches. The rain has played a major part, as it usually does, but the prep this season has been the worst in many years.
You can't hit thru the line on these pitches, you genuinely have to wait for the bad ball. Its been like that for a long time and it really has affected batters' development in this format.

Tomorrow is the Final. Yesterday was the final group game.