2nd Test WI vs Zimbabwe at Roseau, Mar 20-24, 2013

[CrimsonAvenger]

Alright, the pain is over now. We can relax.

[Jemisi]

Nightmare over. A joke how many wickets we have gifted to Samuels.

[Jemisi]

Time to lick our wounds. Not as bad as our last tour, but pretty bad.

[ZIMDOGGY]

seriously disgusting

[Boundary]

Guys, I'll say it again. The game at home is at risk, time for desperate measures. Suspend the Future tours and downgrade them to "A" tours. Flush the current lot down the drain (let them continue with the Logan Cup, where their talents are appropriate) bring in the likes of Mushangwe, Lake, Raza and keep a few recent debutants (like Jarvis, Vitori) and form a young, hungry group. Pour the ICC money we've just received into an intensive 18 month, non stop, worldwide "A" tour: against SA provinces, 2nd division county sides, NZ 1st class and Aus states, all over the subcontinent. Give them Heath Streak and Grant Flower, a physio, an analysis team. Give them captain Ray Price. Eat, sleep, play cricket. Non-stop. Learn to win, learn not to be afraid of: conditions, 90 mph balls, decent spin. Learn to win. This lot learnt to lose when they were young, being thrust into intensely intimidating circumnstances in 2003/2005 and they have never unlearned that habit. This is the nuclear option. Excercise it now, otherwise we are out.

[Trevor]

Only a comprehensive victory against Bangladesh will ease this pain...not just a victory but a comprehensive one..

[zimlover]

Finally its over the pain is gone i dont know how anyone can be a zimbabwean supporter i am taking a lengthy leave from this forum, it hurts so much to be a zim cricket supporter

[eugene]

How about we keep the current players and send them on an intense 18-month tour? You can pour all the money you want into Malcolm Lake, he isn't going to be as good as Sibanda, Taylor, Masakadza.

[aydee]

How about we keep the current players and send them on an intense 18-month tour? You can pour all the money you want into Malcolm Lake, he isn't going to be as good as Sibanda, Taylor, Masakadza.

True!

Plus he's already left the country...

[sloandog]

Finally its over the pain is gone i dont know how anyone can be a zimbabwean supporter i am taking a lengthy leave from this forum, it hurts so much to be a zim cricket supporter

dude stayyy!

To be honest I agree with Eugene. Sibanda is our best batter, and has been on this tour comfortably, though he hasn't always illustrated it with his scores.

Okay, Lake scored a hundred at Under 19's level, but why scrap most of this side and bring in players that aren't and never will be good enough at international cricket. What we need though, i agree, is a break from international cricket, and like you said, play in an A team system around the world and learn to play against the lesser sides, yet still develop through facing 90mph and bowling on unresponsive wickets. What I'm getting at is we need to learn!

The dismissals this series have actually been horrifically embarrassing. We can't hide behind the fact that we've not played international cricket for 12months etc, what it comes down to is that we don't think, we don't learn, and we're soft!

We ever going to produce a cricketer who's as mean and aggressive as Price ?