Opinion: On Britain banning Zimbabwe Cricket tour…

I recently came across this article from Zimbabwe about not just the politicisation of Cricket in the Zim/UK-Aus context, but also about using cricket as some sort of a tool to make the statement.
People make statements on this blog as well about Zimbabwe, and also the underlying implication of every Zim related Cricinfo article is [...]

News: Zim to play as SA’s 7th Franchise…

I am not all too well aware of SA’s franchise system, but I think that this essentially means that Zim, who were playing at the SAA provincial level, will now be playing at a higher level, at least for the one day league.
Btw…. if the Franchise has 6 franchise players, then are only 5 Zimbabweans [...]

News: Ire/Sco/NZ to play triangular….

I think this triangular has been scheduled for a while. As far as my memory goes, this was originally supposed to be Kenya, NZ and Sco in this tournament. There is a mistake in the news article stating that this will be the second ODI by Ireland against a test nation, I think they wanted [...]

News: What?

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in one of the posts that Zimbabwe had been not as hopeless against SA in the ODI series. Most of it was based around the fact that the team once again had Taibu in the ranks, to support the only other real class player, Taylor.
Taibu failed today, but [...]

News: Kenya bt Bang, Zim beat Sco in t20 warm ups….

Interesting that Kenya beat Bangladesh after the disasterous tournament at home in which they lost to both Uganda and Bangladesh. This was a decent victory as well, by 6 wkts. There was only 1 ball left though, but Kenya would be happy at the fact that they dismissed Bangladesh in 16.3 overs. This was the full [...]

News: Zimbabwe make 295 v SA in 3rd ODI….

Zimbabwe has always been a brunt of our jokes, and criticism. Some things happenned for this series which were….. well …… positive. Taibu returned, and returned with a bang. The other good things were that Sibanda and SC Williams were both playing. I have seen SC Williams and he looks like a great player at [...]

Opinion: Of Zimbabwe in Intercontinental Cup….

Recently, the cricketing world has been given another talking point….. that an ICC committee recommended that Zimbabwe be made to play in the intercontinental cup, and only after a clear domination in that should they return to test cricket….
Good or bad? Good…… Zimbabwe ended up creating a mess that has no parallel in the history [...]

Opinion: Reading into the Kenya/ Zimbabwe game……

A couple of days back, Kenya Select XI took on Zimbabwe A in a 4 day match. Zimbabwe A ended up winning that game….. a bit of fight from Kenya, but not enough.
The thing is…… the Kenya select was not an A side, it was actually more than an A side. 7 of their players were [...]

News: Zim gets $12m for WC participation……..

It is strange that this this piece of news for the first time has saddenned me.
Zim, on the account of being a test team, which technically they are not, get that much money for their particiaption in the tournament, while Ireland, that stayed 1 month longer than them get around $1m for participation.
The reason why [...]

Opinion: Scotland’s Bangladesh tour

First things first. As expected, the tour is getting a decent publicity in the Scottish press, much more than what the European championships got. As far as Bangladesh is concerned, the fact that these are full ODIs, has pushed Bangladesh to play their full team. The only player missing is Khaled Masud, who is probably [...]