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Fri, 20/04/2007 - 04:53 — admin

From CricInfo's Beyond the Test World blog, looking at the end-of-day-one score from Kenya Select's Logan Cup match against Westerns:

Kenya’s slightly below-par performance can partially be explained by the fact that they only arrived in Bulawayo on Wednesday and have been in the country for less than 48 hours. It will, inevitably, take them time to acclimitise.

Get your excuses here (for the record, Kenya were bowled out for 218 in their first innings). It's snarky little comments like that, that make me hope Westerns wrap this one up with minimal problems...
CricInfo BTTW - Mishra spares Kenyans' blushes

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Fri, 20/04/2007 - 14:02 — Nick Deverell (not verified)

Any idea where I could get hold of a scorecard for this match?

Fri, 20/04/2007 - 14:16 — maehara (not verified)

Scorecards and Zimbabwean cricket don't seem to go too well together - they're damn near impossible to get. Headline scores from day one were:
Kenya Select 218 (Mishra 89, Obanda 33, Ouma 32; Mupariwa 4/27, Dabengwa 4/45)
Westerns 12/0 at close of play; Kenya Select lead by 206 runs.

zimcricket.org will usually have daily updates, but as they're hosted in Harare, Zimbabwe's dodgy internet connection means it's not always possible to reach the site...

Sat, 21/04/2007 - 04:20 — Carnival (not verified)

The Zimbabwe board are a shambles - has anyone seen scorecards for the Faithwear? The website they run is slow on a good day but has been unaccessible more often than not over the last month. They cant even supply cards for the Logan Cup which is supposed to be a first class tournament. Anywhere else in the world this would be regarded as a disgrace, but because it s the corrupt Zimbabwe board, the authorities look the other way. Rant over

Sat, 21/04/2007 - 13:26 — maehara (not verified)

Westerns v Kenya Select scorecard here.

End of day 2: Kenya Select 218 & 158, Westerns 201 & 154/6. Westerns required 21 to win. Day 3 card not available yet, but probably safe to assume Westerns should have won it...

Sun, 22/04/2007 - 22:48 — Carnival (not verified)

Zim Cricket's website has been done for several days and as you say, when it is up it is slower than a snail. Is this a deliberate policy to prevent anyone finding out what a mess things are or is it just because they are useless?

Mon, 23/04/2007 - 00:26 — maehara (not verified)

Is this a deliberate policy to prevent anyone finding out what a mess things are or is it just because they are useless?

Well, since the ZC website never has too much in the way of useful information on it anyway, I doubt it's a deliberate attempt to hide anything. It's more their style to just not say anything, and plugging what they do do on the site helps maintain the image of "business as usual", so I'd be more inclined to believe it's a genuine technical problem.

The site seems to be hosted & operated for them by a web design company in Harare, and they've left it unavailable on one or two occasions in the past. It seems to have gone down Friday evening, so I'd be willing to put a few dollars down that it'll reappear again sometime today, now that the weekend's over.