2023-2031 FTP news, updates, etc

[Kriterion_BD]

Next two years:

July 2024: 1 Test away to Ireland
July-August 2024: U25 tour of England - unknown fixtures
August 2024: 2 FC, 3 ODs at home to SA Emerging XI (Zim Emerging XI)
October 2024: 2026 T20 World Cup Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier B, in Kenya.
November 2024: 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is at home to Pakistan
December 2024: 2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is at home to Afghanistan

January 2025: 2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is at home to Ireland
March 2025: 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is away to Bangladesh
May 2025: 1 Test away to England
June 2025: 2 Tests at home to South Africa
July 2025: T20I Tri-series at home to South Africa and New Zealand
Jul/Aug 2025: 2 Tests, 3 ODIs at home to New Zealand
August 2025: 2026 T20 Word Cup Africa Regional Final Qualifier, location TBC.
September 2025: 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is at home to Sri Lanka
October-November 2025: 2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is at home to Afghanistan

May 2026: 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is away to Pakistan
July 2026: 2 Tests, 5 ODIs at home to Bangladesh
September 2026: 3 ODIs at home to Australia
December 2026: 2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is away to Afghanistan

How is a Zimbabwe home series considered "to Pakistan"???

[secretzimbo]

I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

[Kriterion_BD]

I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

It may be specific to football then. I don't think I've heard Brits use it that way, but I'm not as familiar with British English as someothers on this forum.

[CalZim]

I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

England isn’t that bad, not as peaceful as KweKwe but I don’t mind it here. Plenty of decent cricket grounds scattered around.

[secretzimbo]

A few more weeks and I’ll be back home thankfully. Miserable place, miserable people and miserable weather

[CholeZimbo]

I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

Boxing Day will see Man Utd travel to Wolves, and they will finish the 2024/25 campaign at home to Aston Villa on May 25.

[Googly]

A few more weeks and I’ll be back home thankfully. Miserable place, miserable people and miserable weather

It's good to go there every so often. Stay there just long enough to be really grateful to come back to this shithole

The traffic here sums up everything. They've decided at the 11th hour to dig up every major road and put in massive highways for the Sadcc summit, but only to the places where the delegations will be going.
The other roads are now completely fucked because people are trying to find detours. Those will never be repaired because they won't be seen.
The presidents don't like Meikles hotel (5 star) so each one is getting a presidential villa built.
They don't like the VIP section of the airport either. Vital to have that when you're basically walking thru and waving.
It's days away and they're weeks from finishing if they work a 24 hour shift. They knew they were hosting a long time ago but I think the delays were due to squabbling over who and how the hundreds of millions would be liberated. We're already bankrupt but this makes it a lot worse. They're going to have to give away the other half of the country to the Chinese to pay for it. Those guys must wonder daily at the willingness of African leaders to hand over whole portions of their countries for trinkets.
Those early explorers buying countries for glass beads and cloths hasn't changed
It's a chaotic disaster and still not as poorly run as ZC. and still not as corrupt as America.

[CholeZimbo]

A few more weeks and I’ll be back home thankfully. Miserable place, miserable people and miserable weather

It's good to go there every so often. Stay there just long enough to be really grateful to come back to this shithole

The traffic here sums up everything. They've decided at the 11th hour to dig up every major road and put in massive highways for the Sadcc summit, but only to the places where the delegations will be going.
The other roads are now completely fucked because people are trying to find detours. Those will never be repaired because they won't be seen.
The presidents don't like Meikles hotel (5 star) so each one is getting a presidential villa built.
They don't like the VIP section of the airport either. Vital to have that when you're basically walking thru and waving.
It's days away and they're weeks from finishing if they work a 24 hour shift. They knew they were hosting a long time ago but I think the delays were due to squabbling over who and how the hundreds of millions would be liberated. We're already bankrupt but this makes it a lot worse. They're going to have to give away the other half of the country to the Chinese to pay for it. Those guys must wonder daily at the willingness of African leaders to hand over whole portions of their countries for trinkets.
Those early explorers buying countries for glass beads and cloths hasn't changed
It's a chaotic disaster and still not as poorly run as ZC. and still not as corrupt as America.

And our mess back home naturally spills over into South Africa. Embarrassing being a Zimbo over here

[Googly]

The sad fact is they can still point a finger at us when they've completely destroyed their country, they just don't know it yet. The mortal blow has been delivered. What they've done to Joburgh CBD is a snapshot of what's coming.

[CholeZimbo]

The sad fact is they can still point a finger at us when they've completely destroyed their country, they just don't know it yet. The mortal blow has been delivered. What they've done to Joburgh CBD is a snapshot of what's coming.

Current outcry is a girl of Nigerian descent contesting to be Miss SA (Born here by the way), made me think of good old Naqvi and how there is no street protests along 1st street over his citizenship.