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English Domestic Season 2022

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Preseason games have started v the Universities

Nick Welch in the Leics team.
In the first round of Championship matches none of Byrom, Welch or Dane S make their respective teams. Unsure if it is injuries or selection.

Snater in Essex team.
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No Melton for Derby either.

Curran is at 3 for Northants. Higgins, who I think is the best and most under-rated of all the English Zimbos, is playing for Gloucestershire.

Muyeye is in for Kent. Snater for Essex.

Recent Zim visitors Compton and Gubbins are both in action too.
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Tawanda Muyeye is playing for Kent.
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Gilchrist, Muyande, Curren, Snater, Carse, Melton, Dane, Byrom, Welch, Higgins

Not a bad XI
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Yeah, calling a bit of bs on all of this.
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Muyeye on 43
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I wonder where he'd stand if Zanu lost the election? 😂

I guess he'd have to become a pro Zanu activist and mark himself as unsafe.

Asylum seekers have to go through the same 5 year naturalisation process before applying for citizenship so the ECB are clearly waiving all rules for Muyeye because you're not allowed to play county on an ILTR. I guess there is such a thing as black privelege in UK, after all. 😂

He is a great player and a decent bloke, even took a wicket, good luck to the guy. A massive loss for Zim cricket, this guy is next level.
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Such a pity the UK gov don't feel the same way about farmers who lost absolutely everything and whose grandparents fought in two world wars for them, and volunteered and lost more soldiers per capita than even the English themselves.
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Even the Gurkas have been treated better.
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You are very right. If everyone who had ever supported MDC or felt ‘unsafe’ in Zim had gone and claimed asylum, there wouldn’t be many people left here!

He’s absolutely played the system . He’s going to be top and I think there’s a strong chance he plays for England one day. The ECB will be all over him using him as their poster boy to paper over their own actual deep racist culture in the game there. No wonder theyve bent the qualification rules. See Archer.

I don’t blame him for playing the system but I can’t believe how easy it seems. If you’re the right colour and you make something up about protesting, quote a few things about democracy and freedom and equality and a few other buzz words and that seems to be enough? No wonder the U.K. is absolutely full of these guys from the third world. Muyeye won’t exactly be a drain to society because he’s smart both academically and sportingly - but you have to wonder about the U.K. as a country. It seems to be on a downward spiral.

I’m quite happy here thank you.
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Ben Compton with a ton for Kent.

What a surprise 😂

I hope he come back to Zimbabwe next season, he was a joy to watch.
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He's basically been a fringe player, clearly his season here and all that time he's spent in the middle has helped a lot and that innings will rightfully buy him some time in Firsts.

I think there will be a flood of guys wanting to come here next season.
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Welch Sr is playing for Leicester this week
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but Brydon Carse has Zim heritage. He is fast and nasty. There's also Dusty Melton who's really quick. We're ok in the seam department, but these two blokes can bowl 140 plus.
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And will never represent Zim, so sho cares.

Carse is fast but does f**k all with it. He scraped an ODI fiver but honestly looked docile, regardless of the fact he his 87mph
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Hit

Sorry, far too many beers 🍻
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Another century by compton 😂
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Ten years scrabbling around in second eleven cricket struggling to make runs and struggling to take rare first class chances.

Comes to Zimbabwe and his game and confidence is transformed!

Surely a fantastic advert.

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