By John Ward

Another serious blow has battered Zimbabwe cricket. Dave Houghton, coach at the CFX Academy, has responded to the ongoing situation in the country by resigning his job, and by the end of April he will have immigrated to England to take up a job there with television companies. [More]

BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Gada
Patrick Gada, Academy student in 1999, is one of the most promising young all-rounders in Zimbabwe. He is highly rated for his attitude and self-discipline. [More]

Ryan King
Ryan King was one of the few 2000 Academy students to have had first-class experience before the start of the 1999/2000 season, having opened the innings for Matabeleland in a Logan Cup match the previous season. [More]

Clement Mahachi
Unaccountably, all Zimbabwe’s black players to come through have been right-handers. Until Clement Mahachi, that is. [More]

Conan Brewer
Conan Brewer is an unusual player with ambition in that he has no burning desire to play Test cricket and has a clear preference for the one-day game. [More]

Allan Mwayenga
Allan Mwayenga, left-arm seamer at the CFX Academy, has followed a slightly unusual course to first-class cricket. [More]

NEWS

Manicaland report
by Nigel Fleming
Australia pulling out of their short tour to Zimbabwe this month will have focused the minds of Zimbabwean cricket officials. The murder of Norton farmer Terry Ford just 30 miles from Test ground Harare Sports Club no doubt swung the decision. Like Pakistan before them, Zimbabwe will struggle to attract international cricketers until stability is restored. [More]

LETTERS

TRIBUTE TO CAMPBELL

I wrote a little something, it’s about a certain ADR Campbell. Here it is.

Alistair Campbell is man out of all time. To look at his statistics would be to look at another man. His average belies the batsman that he is. After all, were all cricket to be done on a statistical basis ADR Campbell would have been dropped, and never recalled, after approximately 1994, but this is where the ‘Lies, Damned lies and statistics’ effect comes into its element. On his day never has Zimbabwe produced a more devastating batsman (except Davy Houghton or Graeme Hick). The details of his individual innings can be found elsewhere, but as for the man, his record shows that we need not be a Bradman, we need not the statistics to prove that we are a batsman of international quality. We are all but human.

John Meffen (country not stated) [More Letters]