[ Poll ] What happens next?

maehara wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:38 pm

My take is that the SRC are doing the right thing (for whatever underlying motivations); the ICC have f***ed up; and if our suspension lasts longer than the end of the year at the latest, we're done permanently.

It will be Code Red but with a slight chance of reviving the pulse. Just like a drug addict, this is a chance for Zim cricket to truly go cold turkey on ICC money. Let Kirsty Coventry, the SRC, and a new board start on a clean slate (old debts notwithstanding). Let's assume, bear with me, that Vision 2030 and the TSP will bear fruit and that the economy will somehow approach US$100 billion in the next 11 years, people will have jobs and new tv stations licenced. The new board will have to reconstitute franchise and club cricket, financed chiefly by a tv contract (with a t20 tournament as the highlight). If our own economy can support a level of domestic cricket, and the new faces run things professionally, then after a few years (say, five or six) ICC will look at our case differently. We can then use the time to develop our national stock of talent, allowing them to play abroad if necessary, and we can make a proper comeback in 2024-ish, unlike the 2011 false dawn.

Zimbabwe, in all spheres, is under the yoke of the past 2 decades. Only by working diligently, one step at a time and building a new record of reliability, will perceptions change. But it takes time - our image won't change until 2023/24 at the very least. We can look at this ICC decision in that context.We have to rebuild our economy by ourselves, rebuild HSC and Queens by our own selves, rebuild franchises like the Southern Rocks, have decent facilities and a decent tv product. Without those, we will always be beggars not only at ICC board meetings but also in our own heads.

Googly wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:08 am

Boundary- Bulawayo tried doing some club cricket stuff independently and ZC attempted to shut it down.

Exactly the type of thing to fix. But don't throw the baby with the bath water. I want DEB to get/retain good people and flash out bad ones.

ricky wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:15 am

i think very soon Zimbabwe cricket will be a gone case. ICC neither has any interest anymore left in Zim cricket after years of corruption. also news is that Scotland will replace Zimbabwe in world cricket league of 13 countries. when ever zim will be back , its likely now to be back as a associate nation. They need now again to fight for test status and ODI status by playing with associate nations.

This is another point people are forgetting. The ODI league is an ICC event. Meaning that we will be replaced if we dont sort this out and never recover. There is no time here. Players are old too. They cant take chances. We need an urgent solution and sticking the middle finger to the ICC isnt 1 of them.

After seeing the SRC fight Chiyangwa a few years ago and losing which then led to them forcing him out in an election, I predict that the SRC will dig in and We will be threatened with expulsion in October and miss the t20 world cup. Only faced with us getting booted will Mlotshwa and Mukhuhlani be forced to meet through real GVT intervention.

Then an interim board headed by Mukuhlani but with a few fresh faces will be put in place with elections held again next year. Some players (my guess being Raza BT and maybe Williams.) will call it quits because they would have said too much. This will then lead to a couple of youngsters being lured back using the cleared wage bill next year as we rebuild.

Mukuhlani and co will then be ambushed at the election next year and booted out just like they did to Manase.(Remember Mukuhlani only announced he was running on election day in 2015. This is the kind of ambush we need)