Zim A to play in Africa Premier League

[triedzi]

well there has been a zone 6 tournament on and off for years, with some of these teams. also people seem to forget that zim lost to uganda a couple of years back, admittedly not an odi but it was still the zim team that had played kenya.

[Zimfanatic69]

I agree we have a duty to help other nations but what about other nations duty to help us ?

We still do not have full help from the cricket world.

[eugene]

Good point Zimfanatic. I think cricketing boards duty to help lesser nations disappears once they have better opportunities for themselves. I don't agree with this stance, but it seems to be the reality.

Zimbabwe Cricket has sold its voting soul to the asian bloc yet we still dont see many of their teams in Zimbabwe and when we do it is second-string sides.

[liamb]

August 5, 2010

Not sure if this tournament is in fact going ahead, as we received this from Tony Munro a few days ago:


Plans for African continental tournament shelved

Posted by Tony Munro 4 days, 1 hour ago in Africa

The scheduled playing commitments of Africa's Associate and Affiliate countries will prevent the region having its own tournament, according to Cassim Suliman, the Africa Cricket Association CEO.

"This event cannot fit into the schedule due to timing and many other constraints... hence the Future Tours Programme has a full calendar of events including under-age tournaments that have been programmed till 2015," Suliman told CricInfo.

There had been conjecture a continental tournament involving South Africa A, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and possibly a combined Africas team was in the planning stage. The Kenya Cricket Association was known to favour its creation.

Africa is the only ICC development region which does not have a continental tournament and several countries such as Botswana and Tanzania only play every second year.

[eugene]

Apart from South Africa, what other participating countries have a busy cricketing schedule? The article itself states that some countries only play every second year.