South Africa Emerging Tour

Zimbabwe ‘A’? 😂 B? C? Under 35’s? Emerging Development Chairman’s XI?

Another absolute smashing loading..

The most embarrassing thing is that Kent were quite happy putting in schoolboys against what's supposed to be a strong side. They know we're useless, unprepared and clueless. We have become a joke to the cricketing world.

We are in absolute freefall, there's no stopping it.

There are still some "u25's" here. Stick in a few 35 year olds as is customary and we will at least field a team. God help us.

And guess what, NO T20 GAMES 😂 😂 😂 😂

zimfan1 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:33 pm

And guess what, NO T20 GAMES 😂 😂 😂 😂

At some point we have to question whether they are doing this just to spite us 😂 😂 😂

2 months in England - no T20's. SA Emerging tour - no T20's. It's almost as if it isn't the format we play most often at international level, and most desperately need to improve at? See Salmon press conference comments last week stressing that he believes red ball cricket is the key to better T20 skills. No doubt that's why he got the job. Very few dinosaurs still believe this. Happily, they've all found each other in the ZC setup.

Not to worry though - they are doing the 7-day T10 match fixing thing again in September in which probably maximum 8 Zim players will get picked for and most will bat at number 9 and not bowl. Perfect! Maybe they'll bring Hamilton and Regis out of retirement to take up two of the spots again like last year. No doubt Williams and Ervine will get two of the coveted spots too, despite retiring from T20I.

It's all just such a great smart coherent plan. Well done ZC. 😂

There is a squad listed on the app for this and it contains no players who are either in England or Ireland. So it is feasible? If so it’s certainly an interesting squad. Might be bollocks though

Ali Frost, Antum Naqvi, Arineshto Vezha, Brandon Mavuta, Carl Mumba, Emmanuel Bawa, Innocent Kaia, Kuda Macheka, Nick Welch, Nyasha Mayavo, Ronak Patel, Ryan Kamwemba, Takudzwanashe Kaitano, Tapiwa Mufudza, Tinashe Muchawaya

Frost is in Ireland. Probably doesn't even know he's been selected 😂

I'm not sure how Bhawa gets parachuted into the squad either. He's a decent player and all, and a ZC favorite, but if you're going to parachute anybody why not go with Matigimu or Matt Welch who's opened successfully for Eagles? Or all 3? They're all good.

My question mark with Bhawa is what cricket has he played of late? Have they even seen him in the last 6 months? Picking Frost over Welch Jr is just strange.

One has had a great impact as an opener and he's just turned 20 and last time I checked we needed openers over a guy that's not here, probably hedging his bets and is not as good a prospect. He's decent though, I rate him.

Something really amiss there. Plus as I said they probably think he's in Harare, but they're about 10 000km out and probably hasn't even been contacted.

Once again short of batters. Watch Macheka. I'm pleasantly surprised they've noticed real talent. I doubt they noticed, somebody told them. With coaching he could end up being a 145 guy, the answer to our prayers.

Macheka is wild. People rave about him but all I ever see him bowl is massive wides. Probably has potential but needs a lot of coaching and taming.

I’m sure that’s not our confirmed squad anyway. The app squads are usually wrong almost 100% of the time.

But it does make sense as all of those players listed are available and not in either Ireland or England currently.

No doubt we won’t get confirmation until the day before. 😂

Probably, as he isn’t England or at least wasn’t at the Kent match apparently,

As ever all we have to go off is rumours and guesswork. ZC treats its fans with so much contempt.

I've just been youtubing some of these SA guys coming here. There are some really good players in this team.

Sounds like the squad is correct. The Rainbow coach talked about Patel being away with the emerging side.

Anyone know anything about any of those guys?

I quite like our squad. It’s quite exciting, will be an interesting series.

They've significantly changed this squad. I saw a previous squad that looked nothing like this. Looks like about 4 white guys have disappeared off it., which with respect, would indicate their batting is now not as strong.

All these games in Bulawayo. The team is spending nearly 4 weeks playing at Queens. What's wrong with HSC?

So what's the squad? I'm so confused