Bangladesh A team for Zimbabwe tour

[MartinW]

Originally Posted by betterdaz
well, although they may not be the best zim A side - i'm a zimbo and i only know three names on that list - they are chosen from players who performed best in the domestic season. i am surprised not more players form the WI tour were included - and as they haven't been i've lost my appetite for the series. which i was actually looking forward to: taylor,rinke,sibanda,matsikenyeri,utseya,mupariwa, mahwire,chibhabha, ireland,dabengwa,higgins...they could and should ALL play. they were showing signs of development now suddenly they have to sit, watch and wait till BD national side arrive...seriously

The bulk of the players who took part in the West Indies series are in England playing club cricket and it's not financially viable to bring them back. They will return for the full tour. As for the selections, these are supposedly the best in Zimbabwe's domestic game, but the season has been a virtual farce and many players/clubs have boycotted the tournaments. What the selectors have chosen represents an untried group of youngsters.

[Miraz]

MartinW, can you clarify the rule "match between two full countries must be televised". If Zim-Ban tour is not going to be televised how umpires can make TV replay deciosns??

What about the use of third umpire??

Confused!!

[SMHasan]

Originally Posted by MartinW
There are no Zimbabwe newspapers interested - the recent West Indies series got minimal coverage and was not on TV in Zimbabwe - and the grounds they are using make it almost impossible for there to be ball-by-ball coverage even if we wanted it. Cricinfo will have scorecards for the matches, assuming that the Zimbabwe board are willing to supply accurate ones.

MartinW, What type of grounds they are going to use? Are not these international standard? If not then why ICC is allowing them to organise the matches in those below standard grounds? Its true that quality players have left Zim but it does not mean that quality grounds have moved with them!

[MartinW]

Originally Posted by SMHasan
MartinW, What type of grounds they are going to use? Are not these international standard? If not then why ICC is allowing them to organise the matches in those below standard grounds? Its true that quality players have left Zim but it does not mean that quality grounds have moved with them!

The grounds will be decent enough, but even the major venues are struggling. At Bulawayo, for example, the long-standing groundsman has just quit and left the country, and I am told by a senior administrator that as things stand, none of the grounds in Matabeleland (which includes all of Bulawayo) are fit.

As with all inside Zimbabwe, the grounds are suffering from a lack of expertise and cash. Kenya played in Zim in Feb/Mar and were surprised at the quality of the grounds. The abysmally low scores in the domestic matches also highlights the issues, plus southern Africa has been plagued by one of the wettest summers in decades.

[MartinW]

Originally Posted by Miraz
MartinW, can you clarify the rule "match between two full countries must be televised". If Zim-Ban tour is not going to be televised how umpires can make TV replay deciosns??

What about the use of third umpire??

Confused!!

The rules state their must be TV coverage but my view is that the games will go ahead regardless of that. We are trying to get clarification.

[TheWatcher]

The debate over the selection of the Zimbabwe A side to play Bangladesh rumbles on with reports of rows within Zimbabwe Cricket over some of those named. The squad is made up of mostly inexperienced players from the substandard National League.

"Anyone can score run in that league," said a leading cricket personality in Zimbabwe. "It can't be used as basis for selection into international cricket."

He cited the inclusion of Bradley Staddon, the son of ZC interim committee member Stan Staddon, as an example of the issues. The younger Staddon has not played in Zimbabwe for a lengthy spell, and many are far from happy at his selection when there appears to be little to justify it. Some sources within Zimbabwe cricket have also claimed that the team's racial composition was deliberately unrepresentative of the pool of players in the country.

Andy Pycroft, who is coaching the side, was said by sources to have flagged his disapproval with selectors over the make-up of the team.

More....

[captain_thinking_tank]

the team looks good to me. hope they will do well in zim.

[Sam]

Check out the following report by CI on June 16, 2006:
Makovah defends under-fire selections
Bruce Makovah, the Zimbabwe cricket national selectors convener, has dismissed critcism leveled at the squad picked for the A-team series against Bangladesh A which starts on Saturday.
Several choices have been attacked by critics, and the presence of players with no top-flight experience has also come under the spotlight. Makovah and his co-selectors opted not to pick anyone from the breakaway leagues which contain a number of leading clubs who have ceded from those organised by Zimbabwe Cricket.
"ZC is not running separately," Makovah told Zimbabwe's Independent. "People cannot just walk in and walk out as they wish. These players were encouraged to play the official league. So those who were prepared to rebel we did not look at them. Besides I did not see any statistics from their league. I only got to know that they were playing through hearsay."
"If we look at the squad that was selected, the players came from various provinces. Also if you look at the statistics Mashonaland came last in the league. It automatically shows that the other provinces have a pool of players as well."
One critic pointed out to Cricinfo that Mashonaland had finished last because almost all their leading players had defected to the breakaway organisation.
"Basically this is a first major step to give other people an opportunity and widen the player base in the country," Makovah added. "Our cricket has been based on recycling players, and this affected us the last time when players decided to rebel. We found ourselves in a crisis because we had no broad player base."
But one former Test player said that the standard in the official leagues was dire. "Two years ago none of them were even in a first league side - they were playing third division cricket," he said. "The cricketers averaging 60+ in the national league this year were not getting to double figures a year ago in the top league. Anyone that understands cricket is not going to believe that there has been improvement or that the game is growing."

[Miraz]

Zimbabwe Coach Andy Pycroft is very much concerned about handling Enamul Jr. Nice to see Enamul Jr. is becoming a match winner in his early ages.

Quote from Cricinfo article

"He admitted that unless his batsmen found a way of coping with Enamul Haque Jnr, who took 9 for 112 in the first match, then Zimbabwe would again struggle. "He bowls a lot of overs and wears out the batsmen. Our guys are not used to facing left-arm spin for long spells and he took advantage. We are working on how to counter him. The guys will get better and better."

Full article

[cricbb]

Al shahriar Rokon was performed in the domestic league so how come he's not in the National or 'A' team fold. Surely he deserves another chance to prove himself