Opinion / Columnist
ZC board owes Zimbabweans an apology
03 Apr 2018 at 15:54hrs | Views
One of Zimbabwe's greatest cricketing icons Ray Price has written today about the sacking of Heath Streak and Tatenda Taibu. It bears repeating.
"Heath and his support staff have been doing an amazing job. I managed to get into the change room after one of the qualifier games. For so many years we have hired coaches and support staff from outside our country, paid them 3 times what we do our Zimbabwe coaches.
Here we now have a coach and support staff, qualified, passionate and ZIMBOS! (No disrespect to Lance, done some awesome work with the batters!)
And how do we treat them?
New Zealand as such a small nation ( like us ) have 90% NewZealand staff, why? Because it hurts more to lose when you are a Zimbabwean /New Zealander coaching a Zimbabwean/ New Zealand team! New Zealand punch way above their weight in International cricket, why?Because they have pride in their own,they seek help from past players, past admin in New Zealand.
Ask anyone who has played for their country, then gone overseas to play elsewhere. Does it hurt more to lose playing for Zimbabwe?
So it is so sad to see how the ZC board have treated our own!
Get rid of this ZC board, let's have some people who are proud of their country, people who want to look at home instead of outside.
Great leaders have always been able to look at themselves first before they point fingers at their Generals.
I have been told that the end of a rugby match, the All Blacks captain cleans up the change room when all the players have gone. What type of message does that send to young players joining the team?
(I refer to New Zealand a lot because they are a small nation like Zimbabwe but make a huge impact in world sport )
Is it not time that the ZC board looked at themselves before pointing to others and blaming them.
The players sent an apology to the nation after not qualifying
ZC board just pointed the finger at the coaching staff and said it's all your fault.
Why didn't ZC admit that they too have failed? It didn't hurt the ZC board, they just feared for their jobs.
How about an apology to the nation from the ZC board?
Also seeing that they are the leaders and all powerful, what steps are they taking to improve Zimbabwe Cricket?
Why couldn't they just have said to Heath and his staff, let's meet, discuss the way forward? How can we the board help you to get better?
Instead they fire all the generals to make it look like they are fixing things after not qualifying. So that when asked what have you the Board done to make sure this doesn't happen again, they can say look we have got rid of all our problems in one go!
So now ZC will hire new staff and look for miracles and results straight away. Pay 3 times what we would have Heath and his staff and have 1/3 of the passion from overseas employees."
"Heath and his support staff have been doing an amazing job. I managed to get into the change room after one of the qualifier games. For so many years we have hired coaches and support staff from outside our country, paid them 3 times what we do our Zimbabwe coaches.
Here we now have a coach and support staff, qualified, passionate and ZIMBOS! (No disrespect to Lance, done some awesome work with the batters!)
And how do we treat them?
New Zealand as such a small nation ( like us ) have 90% NewZealand staff, why? Because it hurts more to lose when you are a Zimbabwean /New Zealander coaching a Zimbabwean/ New Zealand team! New Zealand punch way above their weight in International cricket, why?Because they have pride in their own,they seek help from past players, past admin in New Zealand.
Ask anyone who has played for their country, then gone overseas to play elsewhere. Does it hurt more to lose playing for Zimbabwe?
So it is so sad to see how the ZC board have treated our own!
Get rid of this ZC board, let's have some people who are proud of their country, people who want to look at home instead of outside.
Great leaders have always been able to look at themselves first before they point fingers at their Generals.
I have been told that the end of a rugby match, the All Blacks captain cleans up the change room when all the players have gone. What type of message does that send to young players joining the team?
(I refer to New Zealand a lot because they are a small nation like Zimbabwe but make a huge impact in world sport )
Is it not time that the ZC board looked at themselves before pointing to others and blaming them.
The players sent an apology to the nation after not qualifying
ZC board just pointed the finger at the coaching staff and said it's all your fault.
Why didn't ZC admit that they too have failed? It didn't hurt the ZC board, they just feared for their jobs.
How about an apology to the nation from the ZC board?
Also seeing that they are the leaders and all powerful, what steps are they taking to improve Zimbabwe Cricket?
Why couldn't they just have said to Heath and his staff, let's meet, discuss the way forward? How can we the board help you to get better?
Instead they fire all the generals to make it look like they are fixing things after not qualifying. So that when asked what have you the Board done to make sure this doesn't happen again, they can say look we have got rid of all our problems in one go!
So now ZC will hire new staff and look for miracles and results straight away. Pay 3 times what we would have Heath and his staff and have 1/3 of the passion from overseas employees."
Source - Ray Price
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