TapsC wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:55 am
Just remember when this becomes a ZC MEMORIES forum I will be here to remind all the "let it die" brigade you burnt a house down trying to kill a snake. None of you even tried to beat them in an election and guess what I could bet 100USD on paypal that in 3 years time when we are failing to raise money to even have a domestic league or fly to namibia or nigeria for some games you will be the FIRST person complaining about how the ICC let us down and why corporate sponsors are not helping
You guys dont get it. This is a win-win situation for ICC board members. If Mukuhlani wins they will have a loyal dog doing as they please. If we get expelled the broke/nagging pest of a cousin that is ZC will be gone for good.
It's very sad, but what is the alternative?
If we want the TM board back it's really just for selfish reasons. We get to see some Zim games on TV from time to time. That's about it. It's not like the ZC administration (or the previous one) has made any great strides in the last 15 years and we'll be sorely missing their expertise. What have their achievements been? Which big sponsors have they brought in? And the ICC hasn't been a great supporter of the game. They have been helpful with the debt (yet another legacy of the Zim administration), but they have never been a huge ally. Cutting the WC to 10 teams is a case in point.
The domestic players get paid peanuts, if at all. And only play a handful of games a year anyway. The national team players will lose out in a big way; but most of these guys are towards the end of their careers and have been on a pretty good wicket.
As for the clubs, I suppose Googly will be in a better position to answer this. But I suspect a lot of them will go under... don't most players refuse to play unless they get paid a few dollars and ZC supply the balls? Sadly market capitalism has to sort that out. It's cruel to say that because Zimbabwe is such a poor country and maybe it puts cricket out of reach of some. But if you can't form a membership based club that people pay to be a part of (which funds the ground hire, equipment, etc) then it's really not sustainable anyway. Perhaps successful clubs should have their own development initiatives to unearth some talent.
The only way cricket can truly get better in Zimbabwe is for people that care about the game to oversee its development. Even in a country as bankrupt as Zimbabwe, I reckon you'll find a passionate administration can achieve more with not a lot of money than the old ZC board can with its millions of mismanaged dollars.
Best case scenario, maybe in 10 years a new administration resurrects club cricket and has a decent club scene going, with the odd inter-provincial games which actually carries some meaning. At which point enough water has passed under the bridge that maybe Zim could have a crack at associate ICC membership.
