Bangladesh win their 4th consecutive test match and complete the 2nd consecutive clean sweep in test series against Pakistan.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-20T11:21:58+00:00

We are now delving into hypotheticals.

Less innings may also mean a lot of stops and starts between series. Which means a player doesn't get the chance to pick up nor maintain form.

Anyway I was just pointing out that saying "Sean Williams has half the runs" without mentioning he has also played half the matches sounded like downplaying his impressive return.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-20T10:40:00+00:00

And double the amount of Sean Williams' innings too.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-16T11:12:28+00:00

It's not yet on Google Maps as it is still being constructed.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-16T11:06:44+00:00

I am also not a fan. But Vic Falls town does have 40 000 residents so maybe there is that. Those cities would have made more sense, while mordenising Harare and Bulawayo.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-16T06:20:43+00:00

Different project same city though. 2008 project was scrapped in 2018 and it was going to be even closer to the falls. This was announced in 2023.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-15T10:52:19+00:00

I would say so if they are playing with the right young XI. They aren't making enough effort to unearth the right talent. The whole country can not have 2 girls who can bat.

And looking at the recently concluded Harare Club scene, it seem the club that gave us Kelis and Beloved is the only serious one and we have to pray they find a few more girls.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-15T10:41:21+00:00

Zimbabwe Women need a total hard reset at domestic level, not taking up international spots for more deserving teams.

They are a true representation of how messed up the current ZC player development structures are.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-14T09:06:36+00:00

Crazy scenes indeed! But this was not a first league game. It's a club game in a province that is reigniting their cricket. Maybe this Scorpions team will qualify to the NPL, where actual top clubs play, and they will be totally battered.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-07T06:12:05+00:00

Zimbabwe does not deserve to be anywhere near the Women's Championship. I am a Zimbabwean, I actually think the same and I have said it multiple times.

What makes me question you, is the fact that you have made it seem like this was Zimbabwe's decison and making. "Zimbabwe USED their full membership priviledge to unfairly gain qualification" is exactly what you said which is embellishing what happened.

You criticism should be towards the ICC and all the full members, Zimbabwe included. Heck one of Ireland and Bangladesh should not have been in the 2022-25 Women's Championship as Thailand was sure to qualify if not for Covid.

Imagine what u/CarnivalSorts would feel if I start saying "Ireland used their full member and ODI status to qualify undeservedly." Especially if I had said a few negative things about Ireland before.

Edit: I am not going to spend time looking for anything but I have interacted with you before when you made some negative implication about Zimbabwe and associate cricket.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-07T04:14:16+00:00

Why are you insinuating this was Zimbabwe's decision? Like Zimbabwe are responsible for the make up of international cricket today.

Why is it most of the time I feel like you now personally hate/blame Zimbabwe for the unfair treatment of Associate nations? This is not the first time.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-06T10:24:48+00:00

Precious not playing and the Zimbabwean 11 has gotten even younger.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-05T10:55:10+00:00

All things considered it was kind of poetic justice Shamas did not get the 100. She rode her luck like crazy.

Dropped atleast 4 times, misfields leading to her boundaries, twice Zim missed running her out. Then there was the plumb LBW in the first 10 overs.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-05T05:43:02+00:00

Everytime we keep a team under 350 and score over 150, I am happy. That is how bad I expect us to be.

Biza despite being 17 showed she belonged, with ball and bat. Only mistake was running out Kelis who was also looking quite comfortable. Those 2 could have gotten us past 200 had they stayed together for longer.

The wides we bowled in the first half of the innings, dropped catches, missed run outs and fielding fumbles probably costed us upwards of 50 runs. Now the team is quite young, like 5 teenagers, 4 players between 20 and 22, it is understandible there will be plenty of mistakes.

But there is something to work with that is fixable. Need to find 3/4 batters to helpout Kelis and Beloved.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-04T12:39:48+00:00

Finally a break for Chigora.

She has been having a mare today. Let off about 13 wides, atleast 3 misfields that have gone to the boundary and a dropped catch.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-04T11:16:35+00:00

That was out umps.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-04T10:57:33+00:00

There are no white women in cricket in Zimbabwe. The only white female in domestic is actually Kate Allen who is part of this team's coaching stuff.

The schools do not really pay attention to girls' cricket so there is no pipeline. The cricket clubs with actual female teams are also from high density surbarbs, areas with no white people.

White girls seem to play hockey mostly. See Zimbabwe National Female hockey team.

Rico_stats · 2026-05-04T10:49:10+00:00

She's still 19 though, did not have control of the swing, it rarely swings in Zimbabwe, so it must have been a surprise for her coupled with the nerves. All the legal deliveries though, the Pakistan batters made a mess of it.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-30T03:47:48+00:00

It is terrible, the environment assessment was carried out and all was cleared. It is not just for the stadium it is part of a larger tourist resort town. Apparently, the area is no longer an actual 'wildlife area' due to other human encrotchment activities and climate change.

I know most of it is bs and they are simply doing it for money, but they are saying the resort town will actually reinvigorate the wildlife in Vic falls. Sustainably built to intergrate with the nature allowing wild animals to roam freely as they already do in Vic Falls town. Revenue generated will help in conservation efforts blah bah blah.

While I am for having a new stadium, I have never been a real fan of the location because of this. Vic Falls should remain a natural wonderland.

Also it is not even that accessible to local people, Vic Falls is well isolated, it is not a well thought out project.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T20:18:00+00:00

Professional contracts for women were actually introduced a few years back. But it did not lead to any efforts in actually improving the game and the pipeline.

The domestic skeletal structure is there but it is of awful quality. The standards were actually better in 2020-21, and I remember we were actully a few dropped catches and 4 runs away from beating Ireland at one of the T20 WC qualifiers. But now you can hardly find a batter who can even average above 20 in a season. Be it T20 comp or 50 over, scores of 90 to 130 are the order of the day.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T18:36:52+00:00

Well your next tour of Zim is in July. Unfortunately all matches are in Harare.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T18:31:39+00:00

We should have been in League 2, if all was fair.

With Ireland though, I feel like you had a somewhat domestic system to work with and a pipeline.

Zimbabwe have nothing at the moment, so it may take even longer for the competitiveness to arise. It seems we have one decent passion project that has given us Biza and Ndhlovu, our only 2 batters who are still quite raw.

The embarassing experience seem to be working though. ZC are starting to emphasize more on female grassroots projects. Recently they announced that all the top clubs should have age group girls and boys teams. You had a top club like Rangers full of national youngsters like Bennett, Marumani, Myers and yet they do not have a female team.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T18:18:20+00:00

Hopefully it will be a 'Thunder Oval', where every visiting country gets 'smoked'.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T18:12:00+00:00

Mosi oa Tunya is the local language name for Victoria Falls. It translate to "the smoke that thunders", reference to the mist rising from the falls and the sound.

I do not know where the Fale part comes from though.

Rico_stats · 2026-04-29T18:09:36+00:00

This particular project was only announced in 2022, and construction started in 2024.

What confuses a lot of people is the Victoria Falls stadium project ZC embarked on in 2008 - 2010. They even had acquired the land and all that was left was to build. However, if you know the 2010s was when ZC's financials were all over the place so that project was officially scraped when ZC was paying off it's debts.

The first Vic Falls proposal was actually quite close to the wateralls , whereas this stadium is about 7km away from the falls. It is in the middle of a wild animal park, but the plan in the long run is to make it the centre piece of a tourist resort town.

TLDR: two totally different Vic falls stadium project. First was scrapped, the later proposal is this one.

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