Mukluhuni from his emotional speeches is certainly not a unifier but a divider.
It's the very thing wrong with most aspects of Zim life. The master slave issue. As soon as someone becomes head of something he believes himself to be the boss and owner and not the custodian. You can't shout once a year if you're doing your job correctly. If things aren't going well shout every single day twice a day until things are going well and people are doing what they're told to.
If you don't trust the managers to do the same then swap them out until you've got someone doing it right.
Paying people less so they might work harder can surely only happen here
Not just work harder, but start actually winning!!
God forbid that formula ever works.
From what I read of the previous discussion I'm on the fence. The board is to be blamed, not for what happened against uganda, uae and scotland though. That's on the players. 100% . These players have thrown houghton, streak and rajput under the bus. We won't consider Rajput as he never really flourished. However, there is one thing that people don't consider. Wes and milton were pretty solid during rajput's era and I firmly believe they would been in a far better position had rajput still had the top job. Having said that he was abysmal for the national team in general so it's good riddance. Then let's come to dave. It was impressive the job dave did coming in and I feel that this is a big opportunity wasted. When you compare to other sports around the world, the role of a head coach is a lot less in cricket. As a cricket coach you can only do so much. From what I read dave lost the dressing room. If you lose the dressing room after giving every one full freedom, it needs some serious looking into. Then there is heath streak who I feel did the best job for any Zim coach since forever now. The UAE game was the most unfortunate because firstly we can forgive a one-off for which that was the very first and secondly DLS fucked us over. We won a 3-2 series in Sri Lanka just some time back and looked even stronger with the additions of Taylor and Jarvis. If the board kept it's calm back then we would've been in a much better place. In short these players have let themselves and the team down countless number of times. At some point you need to look at these guys and wonder wtf they're on. When you see guys like Burl and Kaia you can clearly see the talent is there. SZ and Googly are right in that aspect about the board letting us down. Burl, Kaia should've been close to Ervine, Pre covid Raza levels by now. Why aren't they? Because Ervine, Williams, Raza were a part of a system in decline and these guys are part of an already failed system. A failed system creates a losing culture which is inspired by the acceptance of negative results through domestic to international level bolstered by mediocrity and the condition of no hunger to achieve excellence. In conclusion, if you want to point fingers for the shameful loses you are right to blame the players but at the same time the problems are deep rooted and it's the board and the guys at the top who are mainly responsible for the shit show.
If ZC were so poor, how’ve the lady chevrons managed to boss it but the losers haven’t?!
Right so beating Uganda is bossing it now is it? Honestly the reason is just because women's cricket in those countries hasn't quite improved to the same extent their men's teams have but they are getting better. Rwanda beat Zimbabwe at the women's u-19 WC last year.
Well, you can only boss what’s in front of you. The girls did exactly that and won their qualifier, progressed to the global qualifier for a 10 team World Cup. The losers couldn’t even qualify for a 20 team World Cup of which there is no global qualifier for.
As I said in a previous post, the lady chevrons are under funded and are essentially nothing more than an ICC box ticking exercise. They get a far worse deal from the very same ZC board than the men do yet came up with the goods when asked. The losers choked claiming PTSD from a Scotland game as the reason. Mate this is cricket, not the bush war or something. PTSD pure loser talk that I’m afraid and nothing to do with the board.
We have 6 schools playing a decent standard of cricket.
Whose fault is that?
Someone will try and blame Raza
Do the boards in Namibia, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands organize every cricket club and school? 6 schools play cricket because the country is in shambles not because of ZC. Cricket is not a priority sport. That is actually what has changed over the last 20 years. Losing players who could made a difference because of economic migrants as well. Why do people think kids are forcing kids like Myers to go to uni? It’s the worry that if they don’t succeed they will struggle in a struggling country.
In a nutshell what I’m seeing here is that they players aren’t good enough and that’s because of the board. I think overall those 2 things are true. If that’s the case then all sides must be held accountable instead of blaming the board when things are going wrong but only praising Raza when things are going right. All sides must be held accountable when things go wrong.
When things were going right Raza specifically said that they were feeling good playing. Salaries and match fees cleared. Rajput was toxic for them and they changed that. Gary Ballance was brought back. The senior group of players are not affected by all these structural problems. They grew up in a good system. They are well paid. Given time off when needed. Scotland, the UAE and Uganda would die to have them in their setup. Why did they fail then? Not once, not twice. 3 times
Why we failed against Uganda and Scotland is one question. Why the kids aren’t improving is a different question. Those questions have 2 different answers in my opinion
I think a lot was learnt from 2018 and this is why they praised Dave after all this. Hopefully they can give him a role to change the domestic structure and grassroots
Let's try break it down. How much would it cost if ZC took the financial responsibility of grassroots cricket. All the way from u9s to an academy.
Googly said it cost 30k to get a cricket ground done. Now if we want to have 100 extra schools playing that means ZC would have to pay 3 million to get that done. Then those 100 schools are going to need a couple of coaches each, ground staff, boreholes to keep the pitches in good condition plus all the cricket equipment.
Let's say they pay 400k to get the boreholes done. 200 coaches on that $600 salary for 6 months of cricket. They could some of these guys to coach kids. 720k extra a year.
Ground staff. Maybe 3 guys in each school. 200/month for 12 months a year. Another 720k/ year. They will need each school to get kit and pads, bowling machines etc. Probably buy them regularly. Then they will need to provide the logistics for these schools to have tournaments and play each other regularly. So maybe roughly 2.5 million a year on schools cricket after having sunk in maybe 4 million to get it going. This is excluding taxes etc so let's just 3.5 million a year on schools cricket.
Could this be done? Well if they don't build a stadium in Vic falls then probably. All I'm just trying to show is that's its not as simple as people think because ZC would have to do all this by themselves and it will cost a significant amount of money. Add a world class academy with world class coaches plus increasing expenditure on the domestic league, a fully dedicated ''A" team touring regularly with world class coaches etc the costs could easily sky rocket to 8 or 9 million a year.
Countries like Scotland, Netherlands and Ireland don't pay for most of these things that we are talking about. I'm not sure about Namibia but their economy is good. Nigeria with its economies of scale can get cricket going without the board paying for it. Its not as simple as saying the board must go.
In fact I think if you were to put this board of experts people it would still take them 10 years to fix. It's not an easy fix. The guys in charge in the 80s and most of the 90s did not have to deal with a failing economy
