SHIT! Zimbabwe lost to Singapore

[zimbos_05]

Let's be realistic though. Ireland and Holland had international Class players ageas ago. I mean Netherlands had Ryan Neil ten Doeschate, Dirk Nannes and Tom Cooper. They would have thumped Heath, Brandes and Andy. Ireland had plenty County/Shield heavyweights. Morgan, Joyce, Rankin, Porterfield, Stirling, Trent, a wily young Dockrell etc. Let's be realistic, cmpared to IRE and NED, the Hami, Taibu, Elton, Utseya, BT, Panyangara ZIM have overacheived. Give credit to Chingoka and Bvute. If I was Ireland I'd be embarrassed to be even in the H2H with a ZIM that's largely been immature in comparison with all the even younger players coming in. Unless of course we can all finally agree that Logan Cup is stronger than County cricket.

I think that's why Bundu and Whatmore were sacked. Mangongo would've beaten all the nonsense out of the cowering fools calling themselves internationals.

Anyway, some of those losses are self inflicted. We once dropped QdK for Vilas, so believe me, there's no harm in picking Kamungozi and Nyumbu ahead of Utseya, Price and Cremer if it'll make Bangladesh(IRE, NED & AFG) look better than they are. ZIM would've beaten AFG if Whatmore was a little bit more respectful and didn't rest the big guns too much.

Which Zimbabwean wicket do you think Lamichhane treasures? None! Sean included! That says a lot. This is exactly why RTD retired from Netherlands.

But discounting everything I wrote, and things like age, what prevents Hami and BT from dominating the Associates like a RTD did? Funny enough Cremer used to love the small sides - and was playfully laidback in his approach too.

Even shit would read this post and be like, "this is shit".

Logan cup is better than County cricket? We know you live on planet cuckoo, but they clearly have some strong stuff up there. A 2nd strength and 3rd strength Zim should have been beating Ireland and Netherlands, no questions. If Hami, Elton, Utseya, Panyangara are as amazing as you say they are, they should have had no issue in dispatching these associates. Heath, Brandes, Andy were constantly destroying Bangladesh at the time, and winning against big teams, so yeah, let's just leave that point there.

Chingoka and Bvute get zero credit. They have done absolutely nothing of good for cricket in Zim but destroy it.

You're right though, Sandeep probably doesn't treasure a Zim wicket. He is above us. He is playing in better leagues against better players. He has bigger goals. We are irrelevant. Though, I'm sure he would have loved to have taken Williams wicket as he scored 50 and led his team to victory.

[chesterton]

Logan Cup is not better standard than County.

If the English national team is playing (best 12 out) then it is equal but only then. And that assumes Taylor, Regis and Sean are playing Logan Cup.

[Googly]

Im sorry but you’ve got that completely wrong in my opinion. Logan Cup is a lower standard than Prem Club, never mind County Two’s. It’s the very reason why we have no players that can make the step up. Rising Stars beat a couple of County Two’s sides, but they were not strong sides that were fielded. Rising Stars then went on to win our 50 over comp, did they not? No more proof required where our FC is at. Most of our FC players are nowhere near that level, not even close. They can’t be replaced because maybe 4 schoolboys a year stay here and try to play, most of whom are not good enough, and the couple that are get denied a spot. This is probably why these players are happy with the status quo.

[sloandog]

Let's be realistic though. Ireland and Holland had international Class players ageas ago. I mean Netherlands had Ryan Neil ten Doeschate, Dirk Nannes and Tom Cooper. They would have thumped Heath, Brandes and Andy

I can't help but smirk and shake my head at this. We'll move on

[cricket_22001]

No, I can't move on.
The troll who lives on stats & facts opened the door.
The Logan Cup is stronger than County cricket. That's the statement we are to agree upon, right? And that's being realistic, right?
So let's look at the stats on some cricketers who played both Logan Cup & County cricket.
Gary Ballance- LC(Logan Cup) 1811 runs @ 67.07 with 10 centuries in 17 games.
CC(County cricket) 7913 runs @ 47.10 with 26 centuries in 117 games.

Brendan Taylor- LC 3985 runs @ 61.30 with 18 centuries in 42 games
CC- 1955 games @ 33.13 with 6 centuries in 35 games.

Sean Ervine- LC 1755 runs @ 50.14 plus 46 wickets @ 30.82
CC- 9040 runs @ 35.17 plus 214 wickets @ 43.11

Kyle Jarvis- LC 63 wickets @ 18.93 in 16 matches
CC- 155 wickets @ 28.32 in 42 matches.

Riki Wessels- LC 1679 runs @ 55.96
CC- 9588 runs @ 33.52.

Paul Horton - LC 1147 runs @ 54.61
CC- 11,161 runs @ 33.82

Mark Pettini- LC 1342 runs @ 47.92
CC- 7550 runs @ 33.40

Adam Wheater- LC 821 runs @ 63.15
CC- 5275 runs 34.93

Then there's the short term successes of Liam Dawson, Dan Housego, Daryl Mitchell, Richard Jones & Bilal Shafayat. All county hacks with averages way less than there LC performances.

So, it can be seen every player has a considerably higher LC batting average than in CC. Any arguments?
Encore, you bowled a straight break & I was confused whether to hit you for 4 or 6.
Now, back under the stairs with your typewriter, Bonzo.

[Googly]

You’ve just hit a guy, who’s been called numerous times for chucking, and now has bowled a no ball, for 6 out the stadium, it’s now a no ball free hit for his next utterance.

[Googly]

I get stress when I see Ballance’s stats. He should be in that England team. Serious player. That 47 average is mostly opening I’m sure, it’s freakish.

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I thought it was just zimbo but lately it's become more widespread so... let no one accuse me of being selfish.

[Googly]

There was that other Pom that played quite recently for Rhinos, he was a gun here and people were wanting to give him a passport and he’s a bang average minor counties player, when he even gets a game. Waddell? Something like that?

What amazes me is how many of the older county players have played here at some point. They all used to love Zim, one of our biggest losses was Gillespie as well.
If you had to pay experts to completely fuck things up deliberately you’d not find better than these ZC guys and their Zanu shamwaris. They’ve not worked out that you can steal AND still run things fairly well. The leading proponents on the planet, closely followed by Encore’s buddies in Azania, they can break anvils at a glance. ED is being urged to quietly step aside by his military, but he’s clearly not happy to do that, there’s something in the air for sure. The country has almost ground to a halt and we need help which is not forthcoming with ED at the helm. The Chinese are going to have a big say here just now and my black brothers are going to wish they had been nicer to my grandpa
Watch this space, there’s about to be a change, might be worse, but something’s up.

[Googly]

Sorry admin for being off topic. I found this last night. The author mentions the white “settler” disparagingly, but the definition of a settler is one who comes from another country, is it not? You’d all be amazed at how many black settlers we have in Zim
Take a read...

Robert Mugabe Family History

Malawi's great loss .
Masauso matibili was a malawian labourer who settled in zvimba where he met Bona of karigamombe clan.

Mugabe's father was born Masuzyo Matibili (pronounced Masuzho) but because the white settler Native Commissioner in Mutoko could not spell it, let alone pronounce it properly, renamed him Gabriel Matibili.

Masuzyo, when translated into Shona, means Nhamo and Nhamo was Mugabe's late son's name. He died in Ghana in the Sixties, her mother, the late Sally Mugabe's native country.

Matibili's father was Chatunga. Chatunga is also Mugabe's youngest son's name. It is a common name among the Tumbukas in Malawi.

Matibili worked briefly in Mutoko before moving to Norton where he met Bona and the two got married and had children *NAMELY*:

Amon
Robert
Sabina
Albert
Bridget

That was before he went to Bulawayo in search of work and never returned to see his family.

According to Sekuru Gondo, Bona and her five children left the Norton farm where Matibili had left her for rural Zvimba where one of her uncles, a Karigamombe, was staying. Karigamombe was one of the villagers helping the Jesuits set up a mission at Kutama.

In Bulawayo, Matibili met another woman with whom he had several sons, among them a Stanley Matibili, once a human resources manager with Lever Brothers, now Unilever, who occasionally donated birthday cakes on behalf of his company to Mugabe on his birthdays during the early nineties, and Ntombana, ZESA chairman Sydney Gata's wife.

He died later and was buried in Bulawayo. During this time Mugabe rarely saw his father and they were not on speaking terms for neglecting his family. Robert and his siblings were assisted in their day to day life by a Mugabe, who worked for the Jesuits at Kutama, hence the adoption of the name Mugabe."He was like a father to them. He literally provided them with everything," said Sekuru Gondo during the interview.

Amon, Robert Mugabe's elder brother, maintained the name Matibiri and that is why his son, Innocent, who was once a police deputy commissioner and his daughter, Chipo, who is a magistrate in Harare, are known by the surname Matibiri, a bastardised version of the Tumbuka name, Matibili.

The new revelations will leave many in authority with a lot of egg on their faces. The government enacted a law that virtually stripped Zimbabweans of foreign descent their nationality unless they renounced their claim to any foreign citizenship.

That was meant to deny many their right to vote in general elections in 2000 because ZANU PF feared they were going to vote for the opposition MDC. Some Zimbabweans have successfully challenged the law saying they cannot be forced to renounce citizenships they have never had.

Mugabe has on several occasions derogatory described Zimbabweans of foreign descent as "totemless" (vanhu vasina mitupo) as if our anawo. Ironically, he tops the list of "totemless" Zimbabweans, followed by his nephews and niece --- Leo Mugabe, Patrick and Sarudzai Zhuwao ---Sabina's children.

News about Mugabes Malawian connection comes as no surprise since Malawi produced another President in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in the name of Dr Kenneth David Kaunda.