Cryptic message by BT

[TapsC2]

I reckon he could make a bit of cash coaching Indian or South African kids or something privately

Probably. I have actually always wondered what completely retiring from the ZC system with no Hami or Jarvis like position must be like. I can tell you now working for ZC is like working the UN or any NGO in this country.It must be hard to completely walk away from that. There is no retirement plan here.

I know it hit Taibu hard in the end, don't know about BT. I can see someone like Ervine and Raza getting a job post retirement, I don't know about Williams

Jarvis hit the lottery actually because nobody can actually tell you what he does

[secretzimbo]

I don’t know if the Jarvis job ever went ahead in the end? Amazing if it did though If only we could all find employment that easy

[pillowprocter]

I'm not Zimbabwean, can someone explain the deal with Jarvis?

[sloandog]

Why did Taibu find it tough

[jaybro]

I'm not Zimbabwean, can someone explain the deal with Jarvis?

Wasn’t he supposed to be in a scouting role, like finding unearthed talents in rural communities or some shit like that?

[secretzimbo]

I'm not Zimbabwean, can someone explain the deal with Jarvis?

Wasn’t he supposed to be in a scouting role, like finding unearthed talents in rural communities or some shit like that?

Yep.

Hilarious idea even if he was putting the effort in. Which it appears he isn’t anyway

[ZIMDOGGY]

Yeah cricket is not that type of game.

Its not like porn where you can go scout someone with a donkey dick or big tits.

Or basketball when you can find a tall, athletic co-ordinated athlete.

Or soccer where you can watxh a kid kick around a 2 dollar ball and think 'hang on he has something'.

Cricket is a game that is based purely on mindset and practice. Strokeplay is easily taught, its practical application isnt.

And with bowling, you know it easily when there's a kid who can crank it.

[andrea lanzoni]

This conversation saddens me.
Brendan Taylor didn't behave smart at all.
But ICC is evil.

When you ask players to be "forced to whistleblow" then you MUST first put in place an effective witness protection system.
ICC doesn't have it, ICC doesn't even study how to have it, ICC wouldn't have the resources and skills to manage it.

If a mafia affiliated approach you as a player with the capacity to threaten yourself or your family, what do you do: you whistleblow to ICC? Then ICC makes it public and boasts how effective is their anticorruption policy....

Then, when on the way home you meet the mafia affiliated, what do you do? a whatsapp message to ICC? Sort of "bunch of philistines, I have some more juicy telling to fill your boring days. In the meantime, any clue on how I (alone) have to manage a gangster?"

[ZIMDOGGY]

I’ll need to brush back up on the drama and what he said, but I do recall Brendan’s story had a few holes and the ICC didn’t manage it well.

[jaybro]

I’ll need to brush back up on the drama and what he said, but I do recall Brendan’s story had a few holes and the ICC didn’t manage it well.

It had plenty, he should have just reported it to the ICC straight away and copped his 3-month ban for doing coke.

I can however understand his story, if in fact it was all true. Although I have said he should have just dobbed himself in, I'm sure we've all had occasions where we've done something wrong and hoped it would go away without having to face the music.

In the end it obviously ate him, I remember him looking really unhealthy during that period which aligns with his story about getting shingles etc. His mindset during that time was also clearly out of whack, he was playing like a mad-man which was infuriating us all to no end.

Remember he also missed the Afghanistan tour for illness, so I believe most of his story, but I'm not convinced he was drug addict like he mad out, I think he just got himself in a bad position and kept making bad decisions to try and get out of it.