Is the team too sensitive to criticism

[eugene]

I see the Zimbabwe Cricket facebook group received this message:

I kindly suggest that you be a lot more considerate in
the manner you pass comments concerning some of
the dismissals, as well as perfomances from our
International representatives on social media such as
facebook.....I hope u will take into consideration my
suggestion for the benefit of the team, as well as atmosphere in the dressing room.

[sloandog]

Get a grip Zimbabwe! If you play like you have been playing you're going to be open to criticism. The best way to silence it is to score runs, take wickets and win

[Ming]

Yep, saw that too...

One thing is for certain: many of these guys are connected. Taylor, Jarvis, Chibhabha and others have joined the ranks of the Twitterati, and many more (including others not in the national set-up) are present on Facebook.

They face the same stuff as players all over the world. There's one big difference though: ZC is incapable of paying proper attention to mental preparation and sports psychology, let alone provide these chaps with a retinue of social media coaches, hair dressers, massage therapists for their poodles, aromatherapists for WAGS, etc. that players in the big teams have. Any comments go straight to the player, who is left alone to deal with it.

[hhm]

Depends, can you guys post examples of some of the things you read?

[sloandog]

Depends, can you guys post examples of some of the things you read?

No doubting you can then

[eugene]

Depends, can you guys post examples of some of the things you read?

I always figured this group was officially aligned to ZC, so this development is rather interesting. Perhaps they aren't aligned at all?

The comments are probably the live match updates where things like Vusi and Brendan throwing away their wickets and poor fielding are commented on. From what I have seen nothing worse has been written than what has been posted on this forum over the years.

[maehara]

Or perhaps the players could address the negative comments by, y'know, putting together the sorts of performances that most of us believe they're capable of but that they rarely seem to produce. They're not special snowflakes, to be protected from the harsh outside world...

[Jemisi]

Some of the dismissals have been poor. Taylor has been particularly bad in the T20s with two very soft dismissals. The one improvement for normal soft outs is the absence of a top order run out.

[eugene]

Some of the dismissals have been poor. Taylor has been particularly bad in the T20s with two very soft dismissals. The one improvement for normal soft outs is the absence of a top order run out.

The tests are yet to come. Mawoyo and Sibanda have a lot of potential for runouts.

Sibanda and Taylor have both been very careless with their wickets.

[herb]

i wonder if any of the players visit this forum. Just trying to imagine a jarvis or waller reading some of the comments on them from this forum