Do We Need New Names At ZC?

Do We Need New Names At ZC?

 

Perkins-Tino Bare

If a coach fails to do their job appropriately they simply get sacked and if the players are not performing up to the required standard, to some, it means there is a need of new blood in the team.

ZC recently fired Mangongo after he failed the nation after the Chevrons went all Brazilian against Bangladesh receiving a humbling Banglawash. Dav Whatmore will now be in charge of the lads for the upcoming World Cup with his first Assignment being a warm up match against Canada. 

But the problem with ZC seems to be way deeper than that and new names won`t do the trick for the ugly politics at ZC are the order of the day and a new name will only be given a code of conduct to comply with which has seen an exodus of players labelled as rebels including former players who apparently cannot coach.   

Seeing the year 2014 in retrospect, it was crucial for Zimbabwe Cricket for it had great memories remarkably the answering of the prayers of many, the resignation of one of the longest serving sons of the game, Peter Chingoka earlier this year and of course the famous victory over the Aussies only to be iced with a shitty performance in Bangladesh that left us all in awe and quite frankly, hopeless.

The resignation of Chingoka was an emotional moment for most of us for once we thought the much awaited return of our beloved game was at hand but ever since his resignation we look at our game and nothing much has changed it is all just case of old wine in new bottles.

The Chevrons now not only lack the ilk to not only play competitive cricket and go toe to toe with the best in the game but they now also lack the passion for game. But if we could just rewind back ten years in time to April 2004 when the boys went on strike and we started this whole rebuilding process which had the support of many.

Looking at a rebuilding process which, started off with the principle or rather the main ethic governing the whole process was to take the game in unforeseen territories and discover new talent and this seemed a noble idea. At that time we had the youngest Test captain with the rest of the team ranging from its late teens to early twenties and we had young energetic players.   

So as the tenth year came to a soar ending yielding nothing, Zimbabwe Cricket embarked on a rebuilding campaign ZC that has since left many pondering if we are even good enough or as Dean would say, `was it all a damp squib`.

Most of the players presently in the team is the same lot we had ten years after we started this whole thing and apart from showing that they have the potential they have not managed to knock on to being World beaters even though they had more than enough time to mature with our support.

Elton Chigumbura, Brendan Taylor, Tinashe Panyangara just to name but a few were there when the whole process began and they have been able to play together as a team for the squad has managed to be stable even with the consistent introduction of new players into the team.

The major problem is that the players that we are stuck with for over a decade now are still playing horribly as they did years ago and they have not been able to mature, they are stuck at their same amateurish level and the lads cannot kick on from there and it makes us wonder if ZC finds itself stuck with a bunch of hopeless duds.

Last year`s major highlight on the field of play was the win over Australia which some will see as a fluke was all but a reminder of the fact that the boys have great potential for at the end of the day it was a cricket match in which the better team on the day won the match. I remember chatting with one of my Indian friends on twitter telling me how much they loved Zimbabwe Cricket for we have the potential but what we need is a little bit more stability.

Now we look back and we realize that we backed a ship whose captain, who had promised to lead us to the promised land, was the first to fall on his own sword after this whole enlightening experience had only left him with frustrated and a couple of remarkable wins which constantly reminded us all that the boys can go toe to toe with the World`s best but the big question is how.

ZC is governed by a bunch of policies and unless those policies are overturned we can have a host of different leaders failing to implement change because this is more than just race issue it’s the policies which have been created to govern ZC whereby players are picked on their color and some perks they would have indirectly contributed to the team and not on sheer talent.

As we enter into 2015 the World Cup is coming and at the rate our game seems to be plummeting there is no point for us to continue crying foul over the wasted decade for its already boring the game itself to death but what Zimbabwe Cricket needs at the moment is to revise or rather repent form its unjust and racist policies which have led to the death of our game.

It is a no brainer that what led to the failure of what at first seemed like a determined process were the policies which created a hostile environment whereby one either has to comply or hit the road Jack.

As it stands our former players prefer coaching Pakistan Bangladesh over ZC and it shows that unless the policies which govern ZC are changed then there is no hope for a couple of wins or a change of a some positions will certainly not do the trick. We do not need new names in the team for they are all but just a pats on the back but it is the core of the organization itself which needs a complete overhaul then after that we can focus on developing our talent.

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