Antum Naqvi

[ZIMFAN]

Secret, the point is not to find another person who has a more tenuous link to play national cricket for their country. You win! Not that it matters.

The point I am trying to make is that international cricket isn't like it used to be and residency rules are used as are "blood" of relatives. You may happen to think that counts in making someone a particular nationality in a sporting sense, I happen to think it doesn't but to each their own.

[Pat_Bee]

This country is full of very dubious people that get back door passports. Then legit citizens can't get one and get fucked around from pillar to post.

The kind of dubiousness you’d find in murungus from England who fancy retiring in the sun and mining gold with a woman they’ve never met in Bulawayo. Backhander at the passport office and Bob’s your uncle.

Naqvi, good luck to him. He knows deep down he’s paying to play in such high profile events as the Zim domestic circuit because he wasn’t good enough to get a game anywhere else or by honest means.

[Googly]

Well you can start with the many thousands of Chinese that have citizenship or will shortly be getting it, then quite a few sexual deviants wanted in Europe, some high profile North African ex politicians (no extradition) etc etc.
It's just not correct.

[Pat_Bee]

These unsavoury folk abusing the corrupt system to escape justice from whence they came is where it fails. Guys just out for an adventure, a woman and some gold is fine Naqvi falls into the latter.

[zimfan1]

A bigger question would be who is benefitting from the money his dad is throwing at ZC.

Willing to bet that it is not going to grassroots cricket

[Pat_Bee]

new suits and pointy shoes for a select few chiefs.

He should have done his due diligence about where he was paying to play, there are better options than Zim if you got the talent which he clearly does. Could have got himself a club gig in England and be halfway into their team now, ECB rolling the red carpet out for him and Muyeye.

[Pat_Bee]

Funnily enough a Pakistani lad contacted me early last year about making a living playing cricket in Zim I do wonder from time to time if it was old Naqvi. My advice would always be graft hard, tighten your belt and get used to earning peanuts on the NPL circuit. I absolutely wouldn’t have advised paying to play or anything about citizenship.

[sam_ahm]

I can't say much here, it all depends on how the Zimbabwean community feels about this situation. Keeping a Zimbabwean out is not good but then this guy is putting in the hard yards playing in the NPL , domestic competitions, and is bloody good.

However, I'm no one to comment on wheather he should represent Zimbabwe or not. Depends on how you guys feel.

[TapsC2]

I would have a problem with it if he wasn't good enough but he is clearly better than most of our players. If England do it why can't we?

[Googly]

The guys who go to England have heritage or do their time