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Clive Madande: Franchise Cricket Can Bring New Talent to Zimbabwe
Wicketkeeper Clive Madande hopes his team can put up a strong performance against India in the upcoming five-match T20 series starting Saturday. He believes that greater participation in franchise cricket could attract more young talent to the sport in Zimbabwe.
The Day Cricket Became a Passion
Clive Madande’s love for cricket began as a 12-year-old when his father took him to watch a Test match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club in 2014. Zimbabwe’s victory by 24 runs left a lasting impression on him. “It was one of the greatest days in Zimbabwean cricket. We beat Pakistan, and I thought, well, I should play this game,” Madande recalls. Now, a decade later, he is a key figure in reviving Zimbabwe’s cricketing legacy.
The Struggles of Zimbabwean Cricket
Despite that memorable victory, Zimbabwe’s cricket has faced numerous challenges over the past decade. Administrative issues, lack of infrastructure, government interference, salary cuts, and a talent shortage have hindered progress. While there have been occasional upsets, such as beating Australia in an ODI in Townsville and Pakistan in the 2022 World Cup, the golden era of players like the Flower brothers, Neil Johnson, Murray Goodwin, and Heath Streak is a distant memory.
Seeking Guidance from Legends
Madande often seeks advice and motivation from Zimbabwean cricket legends like Dave Houghton and Tatenda Taibu. “Guys like Houghton and Taibu, I speak to them regularly for advice, motivation, and tips. Whenever I feel like struggling, I go back to them,” he says.
Upcoming Challenges and Opportunities
Zimbabwe has a busy schedule ahead, starting with the India T20I series. They will host all top nations except Australia and tour countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and England. Madande sees these matches as a big motivation to play harder and smarter. “Like we showed in the series against Bangladesh, we have talent. We played good cricket there, just that we couldn’t get the results we wanted,” he explains.
Experience and Talent in the Squad
Led by the seasoned Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe’s team includes experienced players like all-rounders Luke Jongwe and Wessly Madhevere, fast bowlers Tendai Chatara and Blessing Muzarabani. Playing in front of home crowds is a huge advantage. “We would be playing in our backyard; there will be a lot of people cheering for us. It’s still the most popular sport in the country, and a lot of youngsters and schoolboys play this game,” Madande says.
Learning from the Best
Madande acknowledges the strength of the Indian team, even though it is an in-transition squad. He admires players like Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, and Jitesh Sharma. The 24-year-old knows that strong performances could attract the attention of IPL scouts. “If more of us get to play cricket in franchises, the game would draw more young talent to it, which would be good for the game overall in the country,” he says.
Building a Bright Future
Zimbabwe Cricket is planning to establish a national cricket academy, refurbish the domestic league, and install indoor training facilities at all five domestic centers. Madande is optimistic that these efforts will help Zimbabwe rediscover its giant-slaying mojo and inspire more youngsters to fall in love with the game, just as he did a decade ago.
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they flirt kinda weird…
#OMG#I RISE FROM THE DEAD?!?!#anyways#the saw franchise#saw#chainshipping#lawrence gordon#adam stanheight#adam faulkner stanheight#dr lawrence gordon#*cricket noises*
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Tilly and Cricket as County Trolls!
Reblogs greatly appreciated!
Closeups under the cut!
#art#cute#cute art#movies#tv#fanart#my fanart#trolls fanart#big city greens fanart#dreamworks trolls#trolls#big city greens#country trolls#cricket green#tilly green#dtva#crossover#crossover fanart#another day another franchise gets troll beamed!#idk what else to tag
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Scared Shrekless (2010)
#props to shrek for being accurate with pinocchio killing the cricket#actually this had the most accurate 'punk bad kid who doesn’t give a fuck' pinnochio I’ve ever seen#like he's a turd and media goes hard trying to make him likeable from the get#just saying they brave for letting pinocchio kill cricket and with absolutely no remorse...ya just dont see it ever#it is book accurate...cricket doesnt deserve it but it happens#i expected nothing less from shrek but was surprised nonetheless#scared shrekless short#gary trousdale#3d animation#dreamworks animation#not disney#shrek franchise#puss in boots#gingerbread man#three blind mice#movie spoofs#spoopy#spooky#october#candy#31 days of halloween#candlelight#scary stories#all hallows eve#fairy tales#funny#dark humor#movie edit#movie gif#childrens movies
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Transgender bug FACT: the rendition of Jiminy Cricket in the Shrek Halloween Special, "Scared Shrekless", that appears during Pinocchio's story "The Shreksorcist" has an ovipositor, rendering him a trans male canonically
#bug facts#shrek#shrek franchise#transgender#trans facts#jiminy cricket#pointed out by boyfriend and fact checked. this cricket is a certified queer
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we really need a pixie hollow reboot and by we I mean me and my like dementia baby doll brain.
#really really loved it as a kid#really fond memories of picking your fairy class on the website#much more engaging fantasy world than...some other franchises at least for me#i feel like theres something so timeless and appeals to all kinds of kids about little magical worlds#where everything big is familiar but foreign and exciting bcs of perspective...bcs thats what being s kid is just like#i would be a tinker fairy i think.#god looking at the wiki. bath drawing talent. celebration set up talent. cricket whistling crown repairing. i fucking LOVE fairies#hole in cheese punching talent
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I finaly saw the new movie and it was super good deffinetly recomend
#puss in boots#puss in boots last wish#jiminy cricket#puss in boots cricket#puss in boots jack horner#pinochio#shrek#shrek franchise#shrek pinochio#puss in boots pinochio
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The Mandlorian decided that droids needed a bar, because every Star Wars writer has made the moral black pit of droid sentience and servitude ever more incoherent, absurd, and irreconcilable. (The short version is that droids in Star Wars can fundamentally not be sentient for the ironclad non-diegetic reason in that its moral framework cannot handle the weight that every organic character in Star Wars is at-best totally indifferent to slavery and has casually and comfortably bought slaves, sold slaves, murdered slaves, ripped bits out of some slaves to improve other slaves, left slaves to die, ordered slaves to their death to save their own skins, and watched other people murder slaves without any reaction either personally or within any kind of larger narrative awareness. Stupid writers keep dancing towards the issue because they think it adds 'depth' or some kind of 'edginess' but no, it just breaks Star Wars. Seriously, if droids are fully people Star Wars just... breaks. In a way that's really obnoxious, too, like that one asshole who corners you at a party to tell you that the Jedi are the REAL villains if you think about it. No, dipshit, they're not: even Andor understands that the moral line in Star Wars is really obvious and solid. Star Wars morality can encompass people doing bad things in pursuit of a noble goal, but it never goes 'fascists and anti-fascists are a mirror image' because that's authoritarian-friendly centrist bullshit.
[sidebar: Andor understands that's there's nuance to freedom fighting, that terror can be a tool to fight oppression but, equally, that an anti-fascist who turns to fascism to fight fascism is just a fascist. The tension in Andor is not that fighting fascism will turn you fascist, but that the choices you make might free others but leave you forever chained. You might bring your people to the promised land, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to join them because a moral person who holds themselves to their own moral standard values himself too much to live comfortably with what he's done. Luthen Rael doesn't think the things he are does are justified because of the greater good: he thinks that he couldn't see a better option and he will live every day until he dies questioning, re-litigating, and self-flagellating himself that he wasn't good enough to figure that better option out, and nothing or no-one will ever free him from that guilt and shame. A fascist and an anti-fascist can both do terrible things but its the fascist who can sleep well at night, and that's all the difference in the world. Andor's a pretty good show, y'all.] Thus, as the Empire is explicitly pro-slavery, you can't have the Good Guys also be pro-[droid] slavery as some kind of 'both sides' tu quoque rhetorical flourish. It doesn't work—not in Star Wars. Not even in mildly more amture, grown-up Star Wars/ Droids cannot be sentient in Star Wars because literally the entire moral underpinning that is the narrative raison d'etre of the entire series falls completely apart. (This is, incidentally, the non-mechanical reason I don't like droid PCs in my SW campaigns.) And yes, this is the short version of this argument. The long version involves me whacking you with a pool noodle while reading long passages of Uberto Eco and CLR James until you stop trying to make Star Wars 'edgy' like someone writing an 'evil Santa' movie.)
#the mandalorian#star wars#andor#Luthen Rael#droids#some asshole's going to come at me talking about robots in some other franchise and how im a bad person for denying their sentience#I'm just talking about Star Wars my dude#And also I'm not wrong#no matter how much the heart cries out that R2-D2 is a person because he makes cute burbly noises and does things that are heroic#Obvious the narrative frequently frames him as a person#but it also frames Luke Skywalker as a fount of moral certainty#Qui Gon Jinn is a good guy and thought that R2's reward for saving the ship should be a nice polish#and not manumission#because R2 is an expensive toaster not people#and yes the CLR James bits may tend to digress into his reminiscences about cricket#if you weren't stupid about Star Wars I wouldnt be hitting you with this pool noodle now would I so really this is all on you#if you don't want to hear post-colonial MArxist theories on cricket and empire don't say dumb shit about Star Wars robots it's not hard
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Sometimes I think about an article I read years ago that called loz 'niche'
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bro??? the u.s. is getting its own version of ipl??????
#wtf????#and the team names are all ipl franchise names but americanised#their rcb will still never win the tournament 💀#cricket
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Those fans: idk i just always like the killers more like they’re so much more fun than the heroes idk i guess i just love all the messy complex characters 🤪🤪
also Those fans:
likeee are you sure you’re obsessed with All the killers or are there just two big reasons you’re obsessed with the driest one this go round???
#scream franchise#scream 6#scream vi#scream vi spoilers#scream 6 spoilers#my thoughts#anti eth#no never mind im not gonna tag that#anywayyy the way people talk about the killers is shocking aklsjflks#like someone who said aaall the killers were their babies#except mrs loomis and jill idk them#like#just say you hate women and go alsfjlds#mrs loomis isnt my fave but jill ????#do you like theatrics or not#people who are obsessed over amber but pay jill dust stfu challenge#and like jason gave us a type of killer we've literally never seen before#even if he's not in the main final group of killers but thats the point its something new#but crickets for him ig bc he's not a white softboi#and AGAIN it just feels even grosser now bc all the final girls (gender neutral) are non white people now#so to see so many people determined to fixate on the blandest white boy killer we've ever had is.... gross :)
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Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza hails impact of franchise cricket on lower-ranked nations
Players from lower-ranked nations have limited opportunities to learn from competing with top-tier teams but franchise cricket has helped them develop their skills by rubbing shoulders with elite cricketers, Zimbabwe’s T20 skipper Sikandar Raza has said. Zimbabwe received full ICC membership in 1992 but Ireland and Afghanistan, who joined the fold in 2017, have surged ahead in the white ball…
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Inside IPL Ticket Pricing: From Rs 52,938 to Rs 499 - Here's Why
Ever wondered how much an Indian Premier League (IPL) ticket could cost you? Brace yourself for surprises ranging from Rs 52,938 for prime seats at a Royal Challengers Bangalore game to a mere Rs 499 for an early bird ticket to catch the action with Lucknow Super Giants. The staggering difference reflects the dynamic strategies adopted by IPL franchises to optimize their gate collections in the face of high demand.
With the Indian cricket board granting franchises autonomy over ticket pricing and stands consistently packed with enthusiastic fans, franchise owners are capitalizing on the fervor surrounding marquee matchups. From surge pricing to dynamic rates, teams are leaving no stone unturned to make the most of every seat in the house.
Take Royal Challengers Bangalore, for instance. Despite a lackluster season, their loyal fanbase ensures high demand for tickets, allowing the franchise to command top rupee for entry. While the cheapest ticket in Bengaluru comes at a hefty Rs 2,300, premium seats witness even steeper spikes in rates closer to matchday.
Franchise executives justify these pricing strategies, citing market demand and the need to curb black market resale. In Chennai, for example, ticket prices range from Rs 1,700 to Rs 6,000, with adjustments made based on venue, timing, and the allure of star players like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, or Rohit Sharma.
Former BCCI GM Amrit Mathur sheds light on the market-driven nature of ticket pricing, drawing parallels with dynamic pricing models employed in other industries like airlines. He emphasizes that while gate revenue is significant, it's just one piece of the financial puzzle for IPL franchises, with broadcast deals and sponsorships also contributing substantially.
Indeed, the pricing of IPL tickets is a complex interplay of factors, including venue location, fan demographics, and the star power of players involved. As fans eagerly flock to stadiums to witness cricketing extravaganzas, IPL franchises continue to refine their ticketing strategies, ensuring that every seat is filled and every rupee counts in the pursuit of sporting glory.
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The fact that rise was so high on that poll is so funny to me. The surge in popularity of rise in 2022 was a revitalization of the tmnt community never before seen
#like when rise was coming out in 2018 i feel like it was crickets from the girls. nobody clicked nobody engaged. and then in 2022 everybody-#-decided to freak the fuck out about rise#and honestly i love it. i love seeing a revitalization of franchises ive been into since i was a kid. saw it with sonic saw it with tmnt#it rocks! theres so many of us here now!#jet jabbers
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