Is Dion Myers gone for the next 4 years?

The general consensus is that there are around 800 000 black Zimbabweans in the UK. They play a very major role in our economy with how much money they send back here on a monthly basis. If you magically switched off that inflow of forex Zim would be in deep deep trouble, not that it isn't already, but it would be much worse. I'd very conservatively estimate around £50m gets sent back monthly.

Every single loophole to get in has been used and abused.

It's been so long now that I guess a process of naturalisation has taken place opening up further avenues for descendants from here. It's not just Zimbabweans, there's a huge number of Kenyans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, South Africans etc etc living in the UK. That's before you even start to consider Indians and the people from Pakistan 😂 (I don't even know what the correct term is)

You have to wonder how many more people can fit.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/dion-myers-946517

Here are his stats, bear in mind he's 19 turning 20, hardly enough games to write him off as a bog standard FC player.

You want to build a team around 4 players, can you suggest some other back up players to support the world class guys you've mentioned?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/wes ... ere-938959

Here are Madhevere's stats. I'm struggling to see a big difference.

DM has the capacity to become a quality international batsman in my opinion, he's damned good.

Your attitude of - if he wants to go then f**k him, is one of the very reasons our cricket is in the position it's in.

First and foremost we need these young guys in our FC, List A, T20 and club system because without strengthening our domestic cricket we cannot hope to improve our national side. Our domestic cricket is full of journeyman cricketers that wouldn't make another FC system on the planet and they need to be replaced by young, talented and dynamic players.

If you think we are in the ascendancy because we've got Blessing, Ngarava, Milton and Wes I think you're in for a rude awakening. Unless these touring sides that are due manage to dodge their commitments we will get some cricket and will be able to reconvene.

Again I don't agree. It's an absolute indictment on ZC that they are prepared to let the very few really talented guys we have slip through their fingers. It shows that they feel secure in their full member status, which will probably prove to be a multi million dollar miscalculation.

The economy is only a part excuse. We get USD hard cash from ICC. We've lost out on corporate sponsorship mostly because of lack of faith in ZC and only partly because times are hard. There are still plenty of big corporates making a lot of money here.

Initially we thought it was mostly an anti-white thing, which was partly true, but of late a few uber talented young black guys have also turned their backs.

Maybe they're banking on being able to dangle a BT/Jarvis-like deal to a couple of players who may be doing well overseas if the s**t really hits the fan or the more likely scenario is that they think our current crop will come good.

To me it indicates that a junior central contract (is there such a thing?) is not that good. Certainly a franchise contract is pretty s**t. ZC console themselves by saying "well it's pretty damned fine by Zim standards, be grateful" and therein lies the problem. It also may indicate that these guys are not confident of ZC's future.

Imagine foregoing a University option and then in two or three years time we get downgraded to Associate and our ICC allocation gets further reduced. Now that would be a monumental blunder for a youngster turning his back on tertiary education.

The obvious solution is online education, made even easier these days by this covid debacle, yet they choose not to.

The reason is simple- the money currently on offer doesn't justify missing out on a full university experience.

Here's another harsh reality- the member nations don't want to play us and that will never change again. They will only do so if made to and may still find an excuse not to. They are the only opportunity we have of making money. We are probably at the point where some Associates are losing interest and they certainly don't generate revenues, they cost money.

That leaves us having to qualify for World Cups and playing as few costly Tests as humanly possible.