To all the Matsikenyeri Doubters

[zimfan1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXBDQMB ... grec_index

Almost had tears in my eyes

[andybligz93]

great video and it is good to see matsi got live his dream but sadly it is time to move on from him and produce the next generation, he was a wonderful servant of zim cricket i wish him all the best and hopefully can prove me wrong

[foreignfield]

Posted that one in the Photo & Video Memory-thread a couple of days ago.
There are a few other young ones in the video, a little white wk and a black lefthanded batsman. Any idea who they might have been?

[hhm]

I thought it would be Zimfanatic!

As I've said countless times before andybligz, don't write him off. We've seen a lot of evidence recently to show that what we thought we had, and is better than some of these senior players, was rather premature of us. I'd quite like to see him around the A or XI sides, and hopefully push on from there. When we resume Tests and ODI tours fully, I wouldn't want to see any of the regular national team players feature inthe A or XI sides. What I would like to see is two or three of the fringe senior players integrated with these youngsters who clearly still have to spend a lot of time proving themselves in domestic cricket.

[andybligz93]

like i said mate i hope he proves me wrong the more people pushing for selection the healthier the setup is , personally i dont rate him and i think therss plenty of better batsman out there but hey you never know

[foreignfield]

Agree that we can't write off Matsi yet. In fact, we shouldn't write off anyone with the small player pool we have. But to me there is only one way to get back into contention for the representative sides, and that is sheer weight of runs in domestic cricket. Matsi had, as we all know, a rather lean season, but there is no reason why he shouldn't turn it around the way Hamilton did when he was dropped. So for now I wouldn't have him in the mix for the A sides, but wouldn't close the door on him just yet.

[eugene]

He still plays like a 12 year old.

[11men]

One thing for sure is that as long as we are still caught in web of the past dreams is all our good efforts willk amount to. No disrespect to matsi but he was given his chance and prooved to be inconsistant, its amazing how nice zim has been to all our so called returning super stars aswell as the so called current stars like matsi and hammy the truth of the matter is that it hurts to watch all these losses and its because i feel we are not looking into the future. We are not going to get better immediatly so why not build a better future its just time some of these so called experienced players backed and let the youngsters come in.

[CrimsonAvenger]

Wonderful video Zimfan1, thanks a lot for sharing.

[Flower power]

My prayer too is for Matsi to reinvent himself .It would be a loss if we lost him. We would have nothing to write about .