The domestic club season kicks off this weekend with the return of the Bulawayo Met 1st League. Queens, BAC, Amakhosi and Poly return.
Amakhosi Vs Queens @ Emakhandeni Ground
Byo Poly Vs BAC @ MacDonald Ground
I’d expect most Tuskers players to be playing as it’s pre-season.
Meanwhile if anyone has any updates about anything happening elsewhere in the country at club level this season, especially the Vigne Cup, please let us know here. So many people involved on the ground lurk and read this forum - please post guys :D info appreciated!
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Pretty sure these games didn't happen in the end despite being scheduled. Season seems to be delayed.
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^ No idea whats going on with the above fixtures and apparently they didn't happen.
Anyway, elsewhere my mate at Kadoma says there is Mashonaland West League cricket happening this weekend with;
Kadoma Vs Tabatana @ Kadoma Sports Club.
And Bulawayo are having another attempt at starting their season with;
QSC Vs Amakhosi @ Queen's
BAC Vs Byo Poly @ BAC
Anyway, elsewhere my mate at Kadoma says there is Mashonaland West League cricket happening this weekend with;
Kadoma Vs Tabatana @ Kadoma Sports Club.
And Bulawayo are having another attempt at starting their season with;
QSC Vs Amakhosi @ Queen's
BAC Vs Byo Poly @ BAC
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At Queens Sports Club, QSC 268-7 (Mboyi 99, Ndlovu 35; Mtomba 3-61) beat Amakhosi 58ao (Musekwa 7-22, Kasipane 2-30).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/956492/1st_innings
At Queens Sports Club, QSC 268-7 (Mboyi 99, Ndlovu 35; Mtomba 3-61) beat Amakhosi 58ao (Musekwa 7-22, Kasipane 2-30).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/956492/1st_innings
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I hear there are as many as 20 teams signed up for the Vigne Cup this year across two divisions (if they all turn up). This is, frankly, completely unsustainable with only a few grounds available.
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Is this league worth seriously? For a third-forth tier league, it would have benefited from having 4 or so provincial under 20 teams, than being a low-stakes social league. The link secretzimbo put up, has a team scoring 58 all out runs in a 50 over game. Cricket is now big business, we need serious cricketers in these leagues
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Tinah09 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:45 am
Is this league worth seriously? For a third-forth tier league, it would have benefited from having 4 or so provincial under 20 teams, than being a low-stakes social league. The link secretzimbo put up, has a team scoring 58 all out runs in a 50 over game. Cricket is now big business, we need serious cricketers in these leagues
Mate it's only the local Bulawayo amateur league - most of the players are there for a laugh and a drink, whilst a few others use it as a genuine audition for the Tuskers squad. Interesting to keep tabs on it as the very top performers do usually find themselves in the Tuskers squads eventually. And when the Logan has a break you will see a bunch of the franchise players playing in it too.
Mostly just waiting for the Harare league to start. That is good standard - often a similar standard to franchise when everyone turns up.
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secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:46 am
Tinah09 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:45 am
Is this league worth seriously? For a third-forth tier league, it would have benefited from having 4 or so provincial under 20 teams, than being a low-stakes social league. The link secretzimbo put up, has a team scoring 58 all out runs in a 50 over game. Cricket is now big business, we need serious cricketers in these leagues
Mate it's only the local Bulawayo amateur league - most of the players are there for a laugh and a drink, whilst a few others use it as a genuine audition for the Tuskers squad. Interesting to keep tabs on it as the very top performers do usually find themselves in the Tuskers squads eventually. And when the Logan has a break you will see a bunch of the franchise players playing in it too.
Mostly just waiting for the Harare league to start. That is good standard - often a similar standard to franchise when everyone turns up.
Apart from the white league with all the ex stars playing, does Harare have an equivalent local amateur league?
The Vigne Cup is club, but seems too high level for people just wanting to have fun on a Saturday.
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ZIMDOGGY wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:18 pm
secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:46 am
Tinah09 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:45 am
Is this league worth seriously? For a third-forth tier league, it would have benefited from having 4 or so provincial under 20 teams, than being a low-stakes social league. The link secretzimbo put up, has a team scoring 58 all out runs in a 50 over game. Cricket is now big business, we need serious cricketers in these leagues
Mate it's only the local Bulawayo amateur league - most of the players are there for a laugh and a drink, whilst a few others use it as a genuine audition for the Tuskers squad. Interesting to keep tabs on it as the very top performers do usually find themselves in the Tuskers squads eventually. And when the Logan has a break you will see a bunch of the franchise players playing in it too.
Mostly just waiting for the Harare league to start. That is good standard - often a similar standard to franchise when everyone turns up.
Apart from the white league with all the ex stars playing, does Harare have an equivalent local amateur league?
The Vigne Cup is club, but seems too high level for people just wanting to have fun on a Saturday.
Not really. The Bulawayo league is the 'equivalent' of the Vigne Cup technically. Just the cricket community down there is miniscule in comparison so it ends up being much much much lower level.
Apart from the Harare Boozers League, there's probably unofficial stuff that goes on but not particularly organised. Takashinga have their own inter-club stuff, very very casual, going on there every weekend.
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secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:46 am
Tinah09 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:45 am
Is this league worth seriously? For a third-forth tier league, it would have benefited from having 4 or so provincial under 20 teams, than being a low-stakes social league. The link secretzimbo put up, has a team scoring 58 all out runs in a 50 over game. Cricket is now big business, we need serious cricketers in these leagues
Mate it's only the local Bulawayo amateur league - most of the players are there for a laugh and a drink, whilst a few others use it as a genuine audition for the Tuskers squad. Interesting to keep tabs on it as the very top performers do usually find themselves in the Tuskers squads eventually. And when the Logan has a break you will see a bunch of the franchise players playing in it too.
Mostly just waiting for the Harare league to start. That is good standard - often a similar standard to franchise when everyone turns up.
Thats cool, good for the lads out there enjoying the game!. I guess what we might need is are high calibre youth interprovincial tournaments to identify talent that might have missed out on Zim U19 WC teams
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This "identifying talent" thing is waste of time. Firstly isn't that what our newly appointed talent scouts are supposed to be doing? If they cant come up with some mystery guy living in the bush somewhere do they get fired for not doing their jobs or does it mean nobody has been overlooked and there isn't actually any previously unidentified talent and they actually have two meaningless jobs.
You can't have "high caliber" youth tournaments because that number of "high caliber" players just doesn't exist.
If someone is good enough and hungry enough he will surely just pitch up and try out for one of the 20 paper clubs out there, take some wickets, bang some runs and move up, that's how it's supposed to work. If you can't make one of 20 club sides Jarvis ain't gonna help you.
You can't have "high caliber" youth tournaments because that number of "high caliber" players just doesn't exist.
If someone is good enough and hungry enough he will surely just pitch up and try out for one of the 20 paper clubs out there, take some wickets, bang some runs and move up, that's how it's supposed to work. If you can't make one of 20 club sides Jarvis ain't gonna help you.
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If Jarvis wants to earn his keep all he has to do is knock on young Erasmus' door and get him bowling line and length at 135 plus and deliver him to the U19 squad before Xmas, like a belated present, or is the mandate to ignore some people?
You don't need a GPS and a map and to scour the deep Zambezi valley in Kanyemba
You don't need a GPS and a map and to scour the deep Zambezi valley in Kanyemba
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Googly wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:23 am
If Jarvis wants to earn his keep all he has to do is knock on young Erasmus' door and get him bowling line and length at 135 plus and deliver him to the U19 squad before Xmas, like a belated present, or is the mandate to ignore some people?
You don't need a GPS and a map and to scour the deep Zambezi valley in Kanyemba
It's a new appointment so give em time. Hopefully in an ideal world there will be a progress report feedback regarding this endeavour after a period of time say 6 months but this is ZC we are talking about 😂
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secretzimbo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:26 am
Bulawayo 1st
At Queens Sports Club, QSC 268-7 (Mboyi 99, Ndlovu 35; Mtomba 3-61) beat Amakhosi 58ao (Musekwa 7-22, Kasipane 2-30).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/956492/1st_innings
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At Queens Sports Club, BAC 240-8 (Nunu 83, M Moyo 52; Ngwenya 3-52, Mujuru 2-50) beat Poly 128ao (K Ndlovu 49; Nyandoro 4-40, Dzikiti 2-19)
https://www.crichq.com/matches/957516/1st_innings
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Googly wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:23 am
If Jarvis wants to earn his keep all he has to do is knock on young Erasmus' door and get him bowling line and length at 135 plus and deliver him to the U19 squad before Xmas, like a belated present, or is the mandate to ignore some people?
You don't need a GPS and a map and to scour the deep Zambezi valley in Kanyemba
Daniel erasmus is played in the eastern vs western match of u19 qualifier last year
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Not many scorecards around, but cricket in Bulawayo is continuing in both leagues.
BAC beat QSC yesterday at home, with Sean Williams playing for BAC in a low-scoring thriller. Nice to see him back. Shame we aren't getting crichq scorecards though.
The Byo second division is in progress too with 8 clubs.
The Midlands season has started with 6 clubs, and I believe Kwekwe are unbeaten after two rounds. Again no scorecards sadly.
Sounds like Vigne Cup 1st and 2nd leagues are starting later this month.
BAC beat QSC yesterday at home, with Sean Williams playing for BAC in a low-scoring thriller. Nice to see him back. Shame we aren't getting crichq scorecards though.
The Byo second division is in progress too with 8 clubs.
The Midlands season has started with 6 clubs, and I believe Kwekwe are unbeaten after two rounds. Again no scorecards sadly.
Sounds like Vigne Cup 1st and 2nd leagues are starting later this month.
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Scorecards finally online...
Bulawayo 1 st
At Bulawayo Athletic Club, Amakhosi 95-2 (Phiri 52*, Chigoma 29*), beat Poly 92ao (K Ndlovu 21, Mdlongwa 3-0).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/962836/1st_innings
At Queens Sports Club, BAC 100-8 (Nkomo 23, Fuzane 2-2), beat QSC 99ao (Haukozi 47, Nyandoro 4-9, Dzikiti 3-37).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/960504/1st_innings
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At Bulawayo Athletic Club, Amakhosi 95-2 (Phiri 52*, Chigoma 29*), beat Poly 92ao (K Ndlovu 21, Mdlongwa 3-0).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/962836/1st_innings
At Queens Sports Club, BAC 100-8 (Nkomo 23, Fuzane 2-2), beat QSC 99ao (Haukozi 47, Nyandoro 4-9, Dzikiti 3-37).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/960504/1st_innings
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secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:37 am
Scorecards finally online...
Bulawayo 1 st
At Bulawayo Athletic Club, Amakhosi 95-2 (Phiri 52*, Chigoma 29*), beat Poly 92ao (K Ndlovu 21, Mdlongwa 3-0).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/962836/1st_innings
At Queens Sports Club, BAC 100-8 (Nkomo 23, Fuzane 2-2), beat QSC 99ao (Haukozi 47, Nyandoro 4-9, Dzikiti 3-37).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/960504/1st_innings
I see a Brandon James in the scorecard. Is this the same Brandon James, son of Wayne James that was in the u19 world cup squad but he couldn't get a match.
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MGN wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:23 pm
secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:37 am
Scorecards finally online...
Bulawayo 1 st
At Bulawayo Athletic Club, Amakhosi 95-2 (Phiri 52*, Chigoma 29*), beat Poly 92ao (K Ndlovu 21, Mdlongwa 3-0).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/962836/1st_innings
At Queens Sports Club, BAC 100-8 (Nkomo 23, Fuzane 2-2), beat QSC 99ao (Haukozi 47, Nyandoro 4-9, Dzikiti 3-37).
https://www.crichq.com/matches/960504/1st_innings
I see a Brandon James in the scorecard. Is this the same Brandon James, son of Wayne James that was in the u19 world cup squad but he couldn't get a match.
No it’s another one :roll:
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