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brmtaylor.com admin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:18 am

Unlike cricket in Zimbabwe, I'm not dead. Zimbabwean cricket used to be fun to follow - and that's why it attracted so many foreign supporters, right? Even during the turbulence and craziness of the 2000s there was still something to look forward to - star players coming and going, the emergence of the class of 2004, etc. The early 2010s showed promise but that's all. What's fun about Zim cricket now in 2022?

As for the ZCF forums, I'm not sure what happens with the web hosting. It's a good point though - so what I've done is saved the username and email of the top posters (everyone with more than 100 posts). So if it does fall offline, I could find a way to reunite the gang. And I still have the www.brmtaylor.com website even though its been years since it was updated, so I could put something up on there to get the message out.


Good to have you back mate! Hoping you could admit some applicants stuck in the hallway whilst you are at it. :D
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brmtaylor.com admin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:18 am

Unlike cricket in Zimbabwe, I'm not dead. Zimbabwean cricket used to be fun to follow - and that's why it attracted so many foreign supporters, right? Even during the turbulence and craziness of the 2000s there was still something to look forward to - star players coming and going, the emergence of the class of 2004, etc. The early 2010s showed promise but that's all. What's fun about Zim cricket now in 2022?

As for the ZCF forums, I'm not sure what happens with the web hosting. It's a good point though - so what I've done is saved the username and email of the top posters (everyone with more than 100 posts). So if it does fall offline, I could find a way to reunite the gang. And I still have the www.brmtaylor.com website even though its been years since it was updated, so I could put something up on there to get the message out.


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Nice to hear from you mate!
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Good to see BRMT is well.

I hope he expunged the multi accounting troll whilst he was logged in who’s ruined the forum the last year or so.
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It would be good to have some admin control though.
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Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:33 am

So if you failed your board exams does that make you half educated?

I suggested before that you personally have as many vaccines and boosters as possible.


Nah I'm not in this. It's more the guys who claim to have to work for a living yet still suffer the delusion that they are capitalists. Nothing will beat that level of cerebral incompetence.

BTW great to see BRMT back.
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sloandog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:09 am

Brmt is online


:D :D :D yes he finally has come online
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brmtaylor.com admin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:18 am

Unlike cricket in Zimbabwe, I'm not dead. Zimbabwean cricket used to be fun to follow - and that's why it attracted so many foreign supporters, right? Even during the turbulence and craziness of the 2000s there was still something to look forward to - star players coming and going, the emergence of the class of 2004, etc. The early 2010s showed promise but that's all. What's fun about Zim cricket now in 2022?

As for the ZCF forums, I'm not sure what happens with the web hosting. It's a good point though - so what I've done is saved the username and email of the top posters (everyone with more than 100 posts). So if it does fall offline, I could find a way to reunite the gang. And I still have the www.brmtaylor.com website even though its been years since it was updated, so I could put something up on there to get the message out.


Good to see you here!
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Jemisi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:25 pm


CrimsonAvenger wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:52 pm

Interesting that this conversation has moved from speculating about the death of cricket in Zimbabwe to speculating about death of ZCF admins! :)

Anyway, I hope both of them are hale and hearty and doing well...


Indeed.

And if things do come to an end for zcf, thanks again for all the good times!


Yes indeed!
I am just posting this to check I have made 100 contributions and don't miss the cut off.

Edit: Phew, way more.
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ZIMFAN wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:50 pm

I am just posting this to check I have made 100 contributions and don't miss the cut off.

Edit: Phew, way more.


Good one. I was thinking there would be a couple under that mark who could also be included.

Not sure if John Ward is passed the ton but we'd want him saved!
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zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:27 am


secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:42 am

Why would we want to lose test status, we don’t even play tests anyway and if anything it’s probably our strongest format 😂

Sorry but I can’t get behind any kind of suspension or going back to being an amateur sport. That’s just asking for total self destruction. Unless you realy do want us to be competing with Swaziland and Ivory Coast.

We just need good people running the game and making good decisions.


I agree. Losing test status is not going to help. If we do, and the likes of TM walk away, I don't think anyone will stay behind to rebuild things. The reality is that we have talent in abundance, but most people just don't trust the board to stay around to commit to the game. Murray is a prime example. Quality player, yet the s**t show of ZC means he, like many others, will be lost to the game. What we need is the ICC and other boards to tell ZC that they've had enough. Either ZC changes or they cut off the money until ZC changes personnel.


Yeah I think I agree with regards to keeping the test status but I guess what I meant was seeing it through the amountnof funding being granted to zc - the only real way I think you could get rid of the rot would be a deep cleanse in my opinion the likes zim rugby had yo go through for what night on 35 years - although you are certainly more knowledgeable on it than me
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Kallum wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:17 pm

Yeah I think I agree with regards to keeping the test status but I guess what I meant was seeing it through the amountnof funding being granted to zc - the only real way I think you could get rid of the rot would be a deep cleanse in my opinion the likes zim rugby had yo go through for what night on 35 years - although you are certainly more knowledgeable on it than me


Zim Rugby went through their rebuild partly when Zim as a country was still pretty good, and things were not as terrible. They also did so at the turn of the Millenium when the economy was in free fall, but there was no real money in Zim Rugby for anyone to want to take it.

Zim Cricket was $20M in profit and there was plenty to steal for years, so there was no rebuild at this time, just looting. There are many quality players who don't even make the domestic scene or A side because they see the s**t show that it is now and just leave once they finish school. They could definitely make it as cricketers, but ZC is an utter shambles that there is no point in them pursuing it, so all we are seeing are those who have no other option stay behind and go the cricket path in the hopes of earning some decent money with the odd holiday tour thrown in.

At this point it really falls on the ICC and the other boards to say enough is enough. They need to be the ones to demand change. They keep enabling Mukhulani and co. Not to mention that the journalists in Zim are toothless suck ups who don't hold ZC to account.
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Or maybe not! Looks like Dave said hold my beer when he saw this 😂
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Thanks to the series win over Bangladesh, Zimbabwe have now climbed up to 11th in ICC T20I rankings.

This will help massively in qualifying directly for 2024 T20 WC.
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Between all of us I'm sure we could keep a forum up and running if this one ceases to exist. Personally I prefer a forum to Discord or Reddit. Discord just seems like one giant chat where it gets difficult to keep things in different topics. Reddit has its uses but again I think a forum is preferable. While it is great to see that BRMT is still alive, I do think this forum has suffered from the lack of moderation over the last few years. It got a bit tiring constantly reading through posts from different users who were clearly the same person.
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Neil Johnson, Brendan Taylor, Murray Goodwin, Andy Flower (w), David Houghton, Sean Williams, Heath Streak (c), Andy Blignaut, Paul Strang, Eddo Brandes, Blessing Muzarabani
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