Is ray price facing financial problems?

If you send me money I will pass it onto him, all donations gratefully received, he needs new fishing gear..

chetanpatel1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:52 pm

As true Zimbabwe cricket lover, today I was searching in you tube for ray price .

By watching one video, I was shocked 😳😲

Ray price is facing financial problems and as per pic, he is running one cricketing shop.

Plus, he is also in AC repairing.

Is it true? Our legends are where??

What are you on about? He's ran his own shop for the best part of 10 years since retiring.

What video are you referring to

Even if a player was on 10k a month gross, thats probably 7k after deductions, if you're trying to raise a family and send kids to private schools you're not getting much change out of 6k. That leaves savings of 1k. The day you quit cricket you need a job and you've probably got limited other skills and your next job is not paying that. At 8k we're talking about 3 players at that level. What about the other zim players on less than half of that? More than half the Zim players probably don't even own a car, let alone a house.

What about the franchise players on half of that again and for only 5 months of the year?

Just the food bill for a family of 5 if you eat western food is close to 2k. Less than half a supermarket trolley is $300. Food here is double the cost of SA and 3 to 4 times more expensive than UK.

I actually have no idea how people survive here. If you're not hustling you're sinking.

If you could offer the franchise players a 9 to 5 job that earned them 3k a month 12 months of the year, domestic cricket would cease to exist that same day.

Groundsmen are probably on $150 a month, similar salaries to government teachers and junior doctors, take off $2 a day for transport and they're surviving on $3 a day and most are married with kids. It is one of life's mysteries.

So in order to live in the leafy suburbs, send 3 kids to private schools, own your own house and have two decent vehicles and live moderately you'd need to be the highest paid cricketer in Zimbabwe. There were no mortgages, hire purchase plans etc etc here. Just recently theyve started Nostra mortgages but you have to be earning big dollars to qualify. You pay cash. Just to put a family on a decent offshore medical aid (and you'd be a fool not to if you can afford it) is 10k a year.

Zim is an extremely difficult place to live half decently.

chetanpatel1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:52 pm

Ray price is facing financial problems

Do you know anything about Zimbabwe the country?

This guys a troll but doing it subtlely.

Well played.

But dont overstay the welcome.

One loaf of bread, one packet of bacon, 2 dozen eggs and a jar of bovril =$34 f%&*ing dollars!!!!!

On what planet is that acceptable? Thieving MF's.

Do a comparison in whatever country you are in and try not to faint.

😂 It's always amusing to read the current international headlines (especially UK) about 'record inflation' and cost of living problems 😂

They've withheld RTGS so you literally can't get it, rate has come back a bit and they're claiming our new gold coins and monetary policy are working and to vote Zanu coz they're turning it around.

The dude they've just caught liberating 5m is out on 200 bucks bail and has had his passport returned to him.

They're going to have to sell off another large section of the country to the Chinese on the quiet in order to make things not look calamitous come election time.

Speaking of the Chinese, and keeping this cricket-related, a Chinese developer is behind the plans (supported by the council) to raze and build on Gweru sports club, which is still used for league cricket.

I can just about cope with their existence when they are hidden away somewhere mining or making cement, or wasting fortunes on an unnecessary airport terminal or something (let's not mention the debt...), but interfering with our cricket crosses a line!

How long until they get all the farms?

A lot of the sports clubs are under threat, I fear.

I was trying to prosecute a Chinese Co recently for wholesale theft. Well I have been trying to get The State to prosecute. The docket keeps disappearing 😂

I'll win, but its sucking the life force out of me 😂

secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:46 am

Speaking of the Chinese, and keeping this cricket-related, a Chinese developer is behind the plans (supported by the council) to raze and build on Gweru sports club, which is still used for league cricket.

I can just about cope with their existence when they are hidden away somewhere mining or making cement, or wasting fortunes on an unnecessary airport terminal or something (let's not mention the debt...), but interfering with our cricket crosses a line!

How long until they get all the farms?

The farms is the big move, they know that farm land is a sensitive topic. When they start on that you know they've pulled the trigger.

Just signed a petition to try and stop them poisoning one of the major rivers that is a vital water source for Hwange National Park. They just don't care and the government doesn't appear to either. Our Environmental Management Agency prosecutes everyone but them.

Let's hope we don't end up like Zambia.