South africa Tour of Zimbabwe | Test Series | 28 June - 10 July 2025

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Raza will have done well to avoid betting sponsorship logos throughout all the T20 leagues he's played.

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Perhaps the ZC domestic matches will be featured on their betting app.

Good point. PJ needs to make a deal with them. The money Zimbos spend on betting with money they can't afford to lose is scary.
Most disposable income is spent on phones, data, gambling and booze...and small house
We are a degenerate lot

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Im onto something here...an all inclusive app where you can bet and dial-a- delivery for food, booze, data and whores.

[Andy31]

I think Illingsworth has had 5 atrocious decisions so far and its only day 3 I've not seen that for a long time. You'd have to go back to Hare, Harper, Bucknor and a couple of the Pakistani umpires.

Still a long way to go to match Paul Reiffel.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/umpi ... ed-1044503

He use to crucify us back in the day. You felt he was dyeing to get to the pub, they way he would give us out.

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I know the target is unreachable, but I still would like to see us play a little proactively. Going out there to block for 2 days is not the way to do it.

It's so obvious our mentally weak we are as a team. We always go out there thinking, "just don't lose" as opposed to, "we can win this" or "just play your game".

We always put ourselves on the back foot before the other team does anything. I expect us to roll over quite quickly if we stick with 1.75 RR

[Andy31]

Perhaps the ZC domestic matches will be featured on their betting app.

Good point. PJ needs to make a deal with them. The money Zimbos spend on betting with money they can't afford to lose is scary.
Most disposable income is spent on phones, data, gambling and booze...and small house
We are a degenerate lot

i see PJ wasnt offered an Irish contract. So maybe

[Andy31]

Perhaps the ZC domestic matches will be featured on their betting app.

Imagine that shit show. Trying to bet on sides and you have no idea whose playing until the game starts.

It would open up so much (more) corruption

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Well the Jackal007 guys will be relying on someone to give them an inside track so they can set the odds.
Not sure what I should ask as a weekly retainer?

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I wonder how much a player getting 300 a month with a wife, two kids, rent and school fees and a sick football team will accept to do what he's told?
What could possibly go wrong?

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I had a look on X earlier. Its about as toxic as it gets.
I see Wellie is the hot topic with Zolsky justifying why he's there and others attacking him.

Here's my 10c worth on this game in particular-
In hindsight we probably would have done better by doing away with both Wellie and Vinnie and just played seamers.
That first day was critical and we let them get away from us.
We lost further ground when we only had one seamer in their second innings in the crucial first session when we needed something to happen so they didn't get away from us.
Wellie did end up with a good return but the horse had well and truly bolted.

Is he our best spinner? Ya probably. He's a good player and its not a high bar. He's reasonably confident of being picked in every game in every format and I'd guess he's on a very very good contract. When he quits he will remain in the system on a similar salary. He can play with a clear head every game and the outcome is irrelevant. Thats a pretty good head space to be in.