By John Ward

Lost with honour. Perhaps that was the best we could realistically hope for in India, and by winning two of the one-day matches, twice taking the lead in the series, our team did better than anybody reasonably expected. Against a team representing over 1000 million people with home advantage, it was a superb effort. [More]

BIOGRAPHY

Everton Matambanadzo
... was an example of Zimbabwe’s ability to take promising young cricketers almost out of nowhere, and pitch them into international cricket, with success. Strictly speaking, he did not come from nowhere, as he had been regarded as a promising player for several seasons, but certainly at the end of the 1995/96 season nobody thought his international debut was imminent. [More]

Arnold Rushambwa
... is another young black Zimbabwean cricketer who is the first of his family to play the sport. His interest was first aroused at Mbizi Primary School in Highfields, a black township of Harare, when Stephen Mangongo introduced the game to the boys at the school. [More]

Vusi Sibanda
... comes from a sporting family but, like most other young black players in Zimbabwe, he has no family background in cricket. “I am the only one who plays cricket,” he says, although he has an older brother who is a good football player in Bulawayo. [More]

LETTERS

GIVING THEIR NAMES TO THE GAME
This is regarding your article 'Doug Marillier: birth of a legend' (23 February 2001). You have mentioned a couple of cases of cricketers giving their names to aspects of the game. Apart from Bosanquet and Carmody, there was Vinoo Mankad, 'mankading' being the act of running out a non-striker who has backed up too far. (Mankad ran Australia's Bill Brown out in this manner in 1947-48, after having given him a warning once before.) Unlike the other two, Mankad turned out to be an all-time great who played for a considerable time, and let us hope that Doug Marillier ends up being a great all-rounder like him. That scoop shot of his is unimaginable, isn't it? And they say he played it to match-winning effect in one of the matches in India.
S. Kishore (California, USA)

NEWS

Third ODI: ..an Indian win at Guwahati
by Trishna Bose
Guwahati, situated in the north-eastern state of Assam, played host for the final one-day international match between India and Zimbabwe. With both teams tied at two-all, this was in effect the final. [More]

OGs win another League title
by Larry Moyo
Old Georgians shrugged off Mutare Sports Club’s dominance of club cricket this season to win the Castle Lager National First League knockout final by 12 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method at Harare Sports Club on Sunday 17 March. [More]

Manicaland report
by Nigel Fleming
Mutare fell 13 runs short of their rearranged target last Sunday against Old Georgians to lose the league cup final. It was a disappointing end to the league season and a toss captain Neil Ferreira probably regrets winning. [More]

Matabeleland report
by Derrick Townshend
The selectors have announced their side for the match against CFX Academy at Country Club in Harare this coming weekend. The twelve players making up the team are: [More]

STATISTICS

India v Zimbabwe - One Day International records: [ODI Records]

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

The Flower brothers in the
field at Guwahati
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