By John Ward

So Mashonaland have won the Logan Cup again, for the second season in a row winning all five matches. They were fortunate, though, to be able to fight back and beat Manicaland after following on, thanks to the most remarkable of Craig Evans’ batting feats this season. [More]

INTERVIEW

Craig Evans
Tall, burly all-rounder Craig Evans has had a chequered career for Zimbabwe. He played in two unsuccessful Test matches and 49 one-day internationals for Zimbabwe, the last 2½ years ago, with just one fifty and 19 wickets to his credit, and many wrote him off as a talented but undisciplined player who had wasted his ability. [More]

BIOGRAPHY

Sherezad Shah
Sherezad Shah has an excellent cricketing pedigree, as his uncle is former Test all-rounder Ali Shah (proper name Omarshah), who still plays club cricket himself and remains Sherezad’s mentor. [More]

Brighton Watambwa
Brighton Watambwa is one of Zimbabwe’s young black pace bowlers who has improved steadily until he broke through into the Test team during 2001/02. This followed a real impact in the Board XI matches in the UCBSA Bowl Competition during the previous season. Tall and gangling, he generates a good pace and has developed his skills to the point where he is now able to trouble the top batsmen. [More]

Ryan Butterworth
Ryan Butterworth, now playing for Mashonaland, was one of the leading students at the CFX Academy for 2001 and the only one to score a century in the Logan Cup that season. Although he was never selected for one of the national age-group teams at cricket, his performances for Old Hararians in the national first league club championship probably won him a place at the Academy. [More]

Neil Ferreira
Many promising young cricketers in Zimbabwe enjoy the blessing of coming from strong cricketing families, and former Zimbabwe Cricket Academy student Neil Ferreira is one of those. Given every encouragement without undue pushing by his family, he enjoys an enviable background, but players such as he still have to make the decision themselves to strive for the heights. This is what Neil is doing. [More]