ZC close to clinching sponsorship deal

@Ahmad I'm hoping for the same too. Sponsorship and the ICC loan should provide enough for a season for the national team players, plus the same for the rest of the franchise players so everything can get back on track in domestic cricket. Late, but better late than never.

Can't have our players short of match fitness, playing away and risking a mentally sapping loss ahead of the qualifiers, but I think there's still time for the Afghans to tour briefly - 3xODI 14,16&18 Feb (AFG prepare for the Asia Cup against top opposition) and 4xT20s 20-23 Feb (ZIM prepare for the T20WC qualifiers plus hopefully a few other organised practise games against 2 of HK/BD/NEP).

Posted by   on (January 30, 2014, 18:11 GMT)

I hope ZC get this loan from ICC, we all Afghans are waiting to See Afghanistan Playing series Against Zimbabwe after T20 World Cup. Hopefully Afghanistan will give a tough time for Zimbabwe

Strange ZCF that so many people on here constantly disagree with your postings? also you seem to forget that cricket has been alive in that land for a lot longer than you period you quote..and has never been in a state like this..players like Procter , John Shepherd , Barry Dudleston , Robin Jackmam etc etc played for that land and were always paid their wages on time due to good administration, Administration has only recently failed, No one here posts hateful or misleading facts , even the CRICINFO correspondents for the region are quite clear in their opinion of the Administration of ZC. We do share common ground in the fact that we support Zimbabwe Cricket, however where improvements can be made they must be. Regime change is not always bad, ZC are no different and it is beyond doubt that any other company, or society performed so badly personel would be changed.

ZC or general, the point still remains. Cricket in Zimbabwe would've been stretched & long collapsed under ZCU if the scale of scholarships, numbers involved at schools, junior, club, women, franchise&national levels were as vast as they have been over the last 15 odd years; and not just a handful of benefactors as was the case in the 8 odd years before that.

I don't see your point. This deal proves ZC is still alive. Your solution to the detriment was exclusivity&to shrug off responsibility in order to maintain that. To me that's not a solution, that's a form of evil. Chingoka,Bvute&Co chose to be bigger than that, and not to emulate Ellman-Brown,Hogg&Co. Their success in keeping things afloat - with a significantly multiplied burden - over a period almost twice as long as their predecessors is not a disaster. On the contrary, it's a tremendous success in comparison. You're entitled to your skewed opinion, but the facts&the reality on the ground will disagree with you at every turn.

@ZCFOUTKAST I refer only to ZC , and not a generalisation..

@grahaam, as detrimental as the original accumulated injustices of displacement you mean?

@ZCFOUTKAST I think we all know how this works , as we have watched it unfold within ZC Over the last 12 years and how detrimental it can be to established organisations!!!

@Anti, do you understand how the indegenisation process works?

Interesting to note that none of these newly-indigenised companies are anywhere to be seen when it comes to supporting Zimbabwean cricket.

Very happy to hear this news. Hopefully things change for the better as far as ZC is concerned. Good luck and best wishes from Pakistan.