Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka | ICC CWC Qualifier | 2nd July 2023

[Googly]

Advocating black supremacy whilst enjoying First World benefits. You don't see the irony of that?
White community may well be on the rise here actually. We're breeding like rabbits and people are returning from First World shit holes overrun by people escaping Third World shit holes.

I'm not advocating pumping money into white cricket at the expense of black cricket. Leave us be to maintain and grow our own, we know exactly how to do it. You need any lessons? Because after 30 years you've shrunk cricket here by 80% at least

Just pick us if we're good enough, thats all that we ask.

[Googly]

No the team and all club and domestic cricket is race free. Its all good, certainly amongst the players. We are in a new era.

[Pat_Bee]

Tawanda Muyeye had to leave for Kent because he couldn’t get a game in the white dominated ZC set up lol.

[Googly]

Nobody anticipated the clarity DH has brought, nor a much more reasonable approach by ZC

[secretzimbo]

Jesus wept. One bad match (the first in a really long time) and we are back to the race discussion?

Lots of nonsense posted on the last few pages here. Thankfully it seems the team and - dare I say it - potentially ZC a a whole, has moved on.

[Googly]

Why u having a go at me? Hard to let that guy's comments slide.

[secretzimbo]

I was more having a go at the other guy tbf! He brought it up.

Silly discussions to be having at all really though. Save it for if we don't qualify and are in crisis

[Googly]

I actually do enjoy it, sadly.

[franco vazquez]

You really need to have good batsmen in ranks for the future or else Zimbabwe could be in for a huge trouble in future and the associate teams are soon following up. WI is a huge example. Sikandar Raza should be a role model for Zimbabwean runaways. He’s probably the richest Zimbo player that too without going for Kolpak

[andrea lanzoni]

The racial discussion is never going away (in cricket and in real life), no matter how much you will it. There will likely always be a natural racial bias in some humans.

With regards to cricket, personally I would rather see an almost black squad in the future as that would mean we are likely maximising our talent pool (reaching rural areas etc). Relying on an extremely small community of whites for good players is not sustainable in the medium to long term.

Anyway, that's a separate thread for another day, just wanted to point out that players like Evans, PJ and Campbell are way overhyped here and haven't done anything to justify being in our best XI

And why is it not sustainable? No cricket in rural areas will ever be played. About 2 black schools play.
Theyve tried the All Blacks for 20 years with no success.
What they need to do is ramp up the small community of whites playing. The very opposite of your Final Solution.

This is one of the dumbest responses yet... So your solution is the make cricket even more exclusive to a shrinking white community? The very definition of racism...

Look at the size of the crowds at HSC and tell me that the sport has no potential to become the number one sport in the country. Especially with football currently in the doldrums...

I live thousands miles away, so I'm the last who can have a first hand experience.

Watching this qualifier on TV I see that 99.99% of the crowd, which packed the stands, is made by black africans. White africans (at least from what I've seen on TV) were less than a dozen people. Some of them siblings of the players.

It's up to black Zimbabweans to finally produce a new breed of cricketers by widening the basis.
In Italy we have thousands of tapeball matches, played by asian immigrants, every weekend.
Playing tapeball cricket costs nothing: in every rural village of Zimbabwe you can play it.
Are black Zimbabweans massively organizing tapeball fixtures where new promising players may then be recruited by clubs playing hardball? If not, do first easy-to-access tapeball cricket before complaining racism.

It would be a pity if instead black Zimbabweans illude themselves sticking to football. For all Zimbabwean football fans: guys you have no idea where you are.In football Zimbabwe has no chance to succeed for the centuries to come: the gap with European and South American nations is something you have no idea how big it is.

The roaring crowds that packed both Bulawayo and Harare stands, seem to have undesrstood it. They applaude Williams and Raza which are all but black africans.
Please give those crowds new national stars (regardless the colour of the skin).