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Didn’t have these earlier in the week, but they’ve finally come in.
Takashinga 1 v Takashinga 2 at Takashinga SC
Uprising v Mabvuku at Alexandra SC
Alexandra SC v Old Hararians SC at Old Hararians
Old Malvernians v Royals at Prince Edward HS
Harare SC v Millenium at Harare SC

At least one person’s taking the optimistic view of Zim’s hopes in the Champions Trophy next month. Speaking to The Independent, Utseya claimed that beating the West Indies and Bangaldesh should be achievable targets:
“We have a good chance of beating West Indies and Bangladesh as well. When we played West Indies this year […]

Buried in a report on this week’s strategic workshops for provincial managers (not the most exciting of reading) is news that Zim 10 cricketing provinces have been mandated to centrally contract a number of professional players, who will be used in development work as well as playing:
It was also announced at the meeting that the […]

Taibu has denied comments attributed to him in a recent article in The Times, where he’s reported as saying he hoped to qualify to play for South Africa. Speaking to the Sunday Mail, Taibu put the record straight:
“I have not spoken to any journalist either in England at the little town where I was […]

Now that the South Africa series is out of the way (thankfully, some may say), time for a look at the various statistics to see how Zimbabwe have progressed since the last time the two teams met in SA, which was the 3-match series in early 2005. Zim started that series with a much-weakened […]

Zimbabwe’s circkets leave for India today, ahead of the Champions Trophy qualifying round. Speaking to The Herald, coach Kevin Curran has stated that Zim need to be batting consistently in the 250-270 region if they’re to have any chance of progressing to the main stage of the tournament:
“It’s obviously a tough challenge given that […]

Harare’s leagues have been running for two weeks now, but Bulawayo’s are just getting underway. There’ll be a full programme of matches in League 2 this weekend, with the four League One teams (Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Athletic Club, Emakhandeni and a provincial Development side) taking part in a Twenty20 competition at Bulawayo Athletic […]

I’m a bit sceptical of anyone posting the results for this one, but the annual Super 8 inter-schools tournament - a primary school-level competition - gets underway at Alexandra Park Primary School this weekend. A ZC-sponsored event, it’s getting a but more publicity than usual this year as ZC try to highlight their development […]

Results for Week 2 (23/24 September 2006)
Old Hararians SC (169) bt Royals (124) by 45 runs
Takashinga 1 (259) bt Mabvuku (183) by 76 runs
Alexandra SC bt Milennium by 105 runs
Takashinga 2 (277) bt Glenshire (176) by 101 runs
Uprising v Harare SC: result not yet known
The Old Hararians game saw Mark Vermeulen’s return to domestic cricket […]

Africa University picked up the inaugral Inter-Varsity Twenty20 title after last weekend’s tournament at Lomagundi College, after convincing wins over Chinhoyi UT and Midlands State. Their final match against UZ was abandoned due to bad light. Sadly, neither the ZC website nor The Herald’s report on the tourney include a complete list of […]