Future tour rumours

If the ban isn’t lifted Zimbabwe won’t be allowed in the ODI Championship

jaybro wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:33 am

If the ban isn’t lifted Zimbabwe won’t be allowed in the ODI Championship

Yup, agreed, but I think we all are expecting it to be lifted in October.

ZC are extremely lucky that ICC have organized this ODI league because without that I don’t think there’s a member nation left that will voluntarily play us in Tests or 50 over cricket again. I think you’ll find some of the associates giving us a swerve unless they come out here in their off-season. Who are we beating amongst that lot? We’re in with a shout against Ireland and Netherlands depending on where we play, but we are absolute cannon fodder against the others. ZC and their supporters have won a Pyrrhic victory, and they’ll never know what that means nor care. Those scumbags at ICC may support them for their own nefarious reasons, but that’s about it, we’re a spent force as far as the other serious cricketing nations are concerned and it’s just a bother to have to play us, and that’s the reality, we are a spent force. There’s going to be a bit of spin doctoring about how the up and coming youngsters (none of them are young 😂 )will have a chance to showcase their talents, but we all know the tank is empty, you can’t make a good international out of a mediocre club cricketer.

Googly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:52 pm

There’s going to be a bit of spin doctoring about how the up and coming youngsters (none of them are young 😂 )will have a chance to showcase their talents, but we all know the tank is empty, you can’t make a good international out of a mediocre club cricketer.

I enjoyed the official line from ZC that the new-look squad for this tri-series was about looking towards the future and next generation, despite there only being 2 guys under 25 in it 😂 😂 😂

Googly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:52 pm

ZC are extremely lucky that ICC have organized this ODI league because without that I don’t think there’s a member nation left that will voluntarily play us in Tests or 50 over cricket again. I think you’ll find some of the associates giving us a swerve unless they come out here in their off-season. Who are we beating amongst that lot? We’re in with a shout against Ireland and Netherlands depending on where we play, but we are absolute cannon fodder against the others. ZC and their supporters have won a Pyrrhic victory, and they’ll never know what that means nor care. Those scumbags at ICC may support them for their own nefarious reasons, but that’s about it, we’re a spent force as far as the other serious cricketing nations are concerned and it’s just a bother to have to play us, and that’s the reality, we are a spent force. There’s going to be a bit of spin doctoring about how the up and coming youngsters (none of them are young 😂 )will have a chance to showcase their talents, but we all know the tank is empty, you can’t make a good international out of a mediocre club cricketer.

Quite unfortunate but true.

The fact that Zimbabwe won't be playing a single test this year, after drawing an away series in Bangladesh last year, just sums up the situation in ZC.

sam_ahm wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 3:22 am

Quite unfortunate but true.

The fact that Zimbabwe won't be playing a single test this year, after drawing an away series in Bangladesh last year, just sums up the situation in ZC.

ZC never learn their lesson, I was reminiscing about the 2013 Pakistan Test series which was actually a very good series, both Test ebbed and flowed and the quality was actually really good. Since then Zimbabwe have only hosted 7 Test matches !!! That's 7 Tests in 6 years, with only a further 7 Tests overseas (5 in Bangladesh).

Just checked the dates for the IPL, they’ll definitely clash with the Zimbabwe v Afghanistan series, I wonder how this will play out with the availability of Nabi , Rashid & Mujeeb??

Afghanistan will either see this as an opportunity to see what Qais Ahmed and/or Zahir Khan can do at this level, or they’ll flex their muscle and demand the players be available. I doubt they’ll try and make these guys choose, they know the IPL money is very important to these guys and their families.

The other option is having them Rashid & Mujeeb avilbalemfor maybe 2 or 3 of the games so they might only miss 1 or 2 IPL games? I think Nabi will get released for the series, it’s not like he’s a permanent fixture in his IPL side from what I can remember?

Mr Twig wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:33 am

The FTP has been updated

https://pulse-static-files.s3.amazonaws ... l-2019.pdf

Looks like West Indies are not coming as planned in October. That tour has disappeared. Zimbabwe will instead play a T20I tri-series in Bangladesh in September with Afghanistan. The Afghanistan tour of Zimbabwe in August that was supposedly pushed back to 2020 is also missing.

The postponed India away tour is now scheduled for December (3 T20Is)

The previous FTP had Zimbabwe play 17 Tests from now until 2023 World Cup. It's now 13 Tests.

Thanks for sharing the updated FTP mate. Shocking to see the WI tour disappear :(

From 2020 onwards Zimbabwe seem to have fair number of games, thanks to the ODI league.

Second half of this year is still slightly better than the first half, considering Zimbabwe will also play THE T20WC qualifier in the UAE in October.

Looks like no tests for Zimbabwe in 2019 what a joke

Even the India series is now just 3 t20 games ???

Looks like Windies are now touring Afghanistan instead of Zimbabwe??

No cricket in November or December either

2019 for Zimbabwe 9 ODIs against Associates & Ireland no tests and a hand full of t20s

Really sad year for Zimbabwe

Keep winning and keep performing, people will take Zimbabwe seriously.

Qualifying for T20WC remains key target for Zimbabwe this year. Should be easy but then winning against UAE last year was easy too.. Cannot mess it up this time Zimbos.

Noises coming from Ireland that the matches against Zimbabwe may be cancelled.

zimfan1 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 5:57 pm

Noises coming from Ireland that the matches against Zimbabwe may be cancelled.

Why on earth?

encore wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:54 am

Googly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:52 pm

ZC are extremely lucky that ICC have organized this ODI league because without that I don’t think there’s a member nation left that will voluntarily play us in Tests or 50 over cricket again. I think you’ll find some of the associates giving us a swerve unless they come out here in their off-season. Who are we beating amongst that lot? We’re in with a shout against Ireland and Netherlands depending on where we play, but we are absolute cannon fodder against the others. ZC and their supporters have won a Pyrrhic victory, and they’ll never know what that means nor care. Those scumbags at ICC may support them for their own nefarious reasons, but that’s about it, we’re a spent force as far as the other serious cricketing nations are concerned and it’s just a bother to have to play us, and that’s the reality, we are a spent force. There’s going to be a bit of spin doctoring about how the up and coming youngsters (none of them are young 😂 )will have a chance to showcase their talents, but we all know the tank is empty, you can’t make a good international out of a mediocre club cricketer.

Even among the most rigid Afrikaner you won't often find such a tone against cricket or rugby. You should just support England.

He’s not wrong though, is he..?

If I had no interest in Zim cricket I wouldn’t be on this forum, would I?

The other guys from my era gave up on it years ago and I’m soon to join them. Our cricket has come to an end under this regime, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s a fact, it’s the last kicks of a dying horse.

You keep me on here a bit, you’re a good spin doctor and it would be remiss of me to let you get away with some of the stuff you come up with. The way you distort the truth is impressive, I’m not sure if you believe the stuff you come up with or does it just suit this massive agenda you have?

I’m just pointing out facts. Nobody wants to play us. We had one shot at fixing it and it’s gone.

History has proven Afrikaners to be far more innocuous than the current mobs that murder, rape, burn, thieve and pillage. The simplest comparison is murders under the various regimes, they’re positively benevolent in comparison, standards of living and education were higher, higher employment, greater per capita incomes, lower crime rates, I could go on and on. They’re not guilty of anything that ANC or EFF haven’t done times ten, but your prejudice doesn’t allow you to see that. The corruption, racism and tribalism exhibited by these new regimes is absolutely astonishing. It’s destroyed two beautiful countries.

Nobody wants to play us. We had one shot at fixing it and it’s gone.

All we can do now is enjoy the final few years of Taylor, Williams, etc in whatever high profile matches they end up playing because this is the last hurrah for Zim cricket. Sad but true, it's done.