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It is good for Zimbabwe. If small teams are continually get this opportunity, they will do better. Just look at the Afghanistan cricket, they deserves praise today. The maturity they have shown in cricket has made the whole cricketing world splendid. If they can maintain this consistency, they will be able to improve their cricket in the upper level.
I am not sure whether it will be good for Zimbabwe, they need to find quality players and for getting exposure and experience playing against top level teams would benefit the talents, other than that there is no point in conducting these ODI series where the players hardly play the entire quota of overs let alone have a competitive match in any aspect.
Even for punters the odds are not that great since it is a one sided trashing.
I remember Zimbabwe playing against Bangladesh 10 or 12 years ago. At that time also, the Zimbabwe batsmen did not have any sponsor for their bat. And after all these times they still don’t have any sponsor. I know that they have a lot of problems going on. But if the money is put into the right hands, I think these things should have been taken care of by now.
Just look at the Bangladesh cricket team, they don’t even play very well but they have almost everything. I am not saying that the Zimbabwe team is much better compared to Bangladesh or Afghanistan. But I really don’t see any improvements in the last few years from Zimbabwe. And on the other hand, we can see Afghanistan basically does not have any stability right now doing very well in cricket. Zimbabwe should be able to utilize the money well to at least have a good future in cricket.