Namibia

[ZIMDOGGY]

cRAIG WILLIAMS IS A LONE ENGLISHMAN IN A TEAM FULL OF ARIKANERS.

SEEMS TO GO GOOD TOO. WOULD PLAY FOR ZIM.

[sloandog]

cRAIG WILLIAMS IS A LONE ENGLISHMAN IN A TEAM FULL OF ARIKANERS.

SEEMS TO GO GOOD TOO. WOULD PLAY FOR ZIM.

I've seen him bat in person, and he looks class. They have a fast bowler called Davies who has been clocked at 92Mph, and a wicket keeper in Raymond Van Schoor who is as good, if not better than most ODI wicket keepers in World Cricket, and a serious batter to boot.

It amazes me how a country that is 70% desert can build such a promising cricket side

[zimfan93]

I suppose as Zimbabwe showed when the game was really the preserve of the white community, you can build a very competitive team from a very small pool of players. Namibia, then should be at an advantage with the aforementioned stability and the fact that cricket there seems to be fairly multi-racial. I guess I'd call them my second team, so go Namibia (except against Zimbabwe!)

[zimfan93]

Quite an impressive development strategy too- trying to do all the things that happened via ignominy and racism in Zimbabwe in terms of bringing players of colour into the team, only without the racism and conflict- http://www.cricketnamibia.com/2011-07-25-15-56-32

Probably a good team to be playing regularly against given their proximity, we should be having lots of A-series etc with them, I feel there could be a lot of mutual benefit from doing so. Could well be the 12th or 13th test nation in a decade or 2 if they keep things on the right track, since at present you could probably say they are in a similar position to Zimbabwe in the 70s or 80s in terms of being involved in South African domestic cricket.

[sloandog]

Quite an impressive development strategy too- trying to do all the things that happened via ignominy and racism in Zimbabwe in terms of bringing players of colour into the team, only without the racism and conflict- http://www.cricketnamibia.com/2011-07-25-15-56-32

Probably a good team to be playing regularly against given their proximity, we should be having lots of A-series etc with them, I feel there could be a lot of mutual benefit from doing so. Could well be the 12th or 13th test nation in a decade or 2 if they keep things on the right track, since at present you could probably say they are in a similar position to Zimbabwe in the 70s or 80s in terms of being involved in South African domestic cricket.

Ya I was thinking that. If they keep on developing the way the are, bringing batters through, spinners and more imprtantly bowlers with penetration, they have a bright future. And another thing I've noticed is the professionalism they play with. The kits are modern and are sponsored ....eeeeee I tell you what it's like looking at a blue Zimbabwe in the early 2000's

[zimfan93]

I must say, that just shows how the administrators are letting ZC down- Ireland, Namibia etc. all have sponsors on the kits, and yet ZC couldn't reach out to a single Zimbabwean business to get sponsorship. It does look kind of nice though, very old school. Do you think if we all chipped in a few dollars each and offered to pay for the embroidery we could get zimcricketforums.com on the shirts?

[sloandog]

I must say, that just shows how the administrators are letting ZC down- Ireland, Namibia etc. all have sponsors on the kits, and yet ZC couldn't reach out to a single Zimbabwean business to get sponsorship. It does look kind of nice though, very old school. Do you think if we all chipped in a few dollars each and offered to pay for the embroidery we could get zimcricketforums.com on the shirts?

how sick would that be! haha! The ZC logo on the left and then ZCF on the right and down the sleeves, get your thinking cap on Maehara, BRM

[eugene]

I think we could all chip in a few dollars and pay the salaries at this point.

[sloandog]

In the 2003 CWC Namibia were awful. Ok they had a few flash in the pans but overall they weren't good. I'd like to see how they perform in the next edition for sure

[CrimsonAvenger]

how sick would that be! haha! The ZC logo on the left and then ZCF on the right and down the sleeves, get your thinking cap on Maehara, BRM

I'm not very good in design, but how does this look?

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