Nigeria and Uganda tour of zimbabwe

[mnelson68]

1 wicket is embarrassing

And yet you were the one who wanted us to send this sort of XI on that South Africa tour They would have been lambs to slaughter there, as I told you.

No my point was if you are going to send an under age side to tour then do it properly. Not have over age players who aren't up to it anymore. Nobody benefits from that and if they get smashed then that's the reality of it all isn't it.

[secretzimbo]

The ‘over age players who aren’t up to it anymore’ are however certainly better players than inexperienced u19’s who have barely played professional cricket. That SA Emerging side was significantly stronger than the Uganda side we watched today. We’d have lost every single match by 300 runs. At least!

Yes that’s the reality of it. Our depth is alarming. We have about 15 international standard players in the country at most and below that there is a vast, vast, vast drop off.

[mnelson68]

Agree , so when players who show some promise like Bennett does why bat him at 7 ? Surely he can open or bat in the top 4 , Mufandauya gets that privilege instead which is astonishing. Campbell batting at 8 laughable.

[secretzimbo]

Ya for sure Bennett is too low. He’s a number 5 for me.

[Pat_Bee]

Bat him down the order in the hope the black lads will perform and the murungu won’t be needed to. Zim Cricket 101 that yo.

[mnelson68]

Bat him down the order in the hope the black lads will perform and the murungu won’t be needed to. Zim Cricket 101 that yo.

Well they are pretty good at not performing

[Googly]

I've been doing some reading about Ugandan cricket. They're not to be sneered at, hats off to them.
Started by the missionaries at the missionary schools. The first official record of them ever having done a useful thing after 200 years of trying.

[TapsC2]

Jeez. They got absolutely hammered looks like a Zim A tour of Uganda will become a regular thing

[Crastle_cog]

It's actually no myth that the gap between sides have lessened and t20 cricket has played a big part in it. I've always maintained from the day I started following cricket that once you increase the number of fixtures cricket globally is bound to improve. Saw a stat the previous year that the likes of oman played more t20s in a calender year compared to say bangladesh. T20 cricket is a much closer contest between teams currently.

[Crastle_cog]

It's just the manner of defeats that we are facing. God it's worrisome.