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Westerns (201 & 154/6) beat Kenya Select (218 & 158) by 4 wickets.
Centrals beat Northerns by 7 wickets.
Easterns beat Southerns by 183 runs.

A good win for Westerns over Kenya Select - some had expected the Kenyans to be too strong for any of the Zimbabwean teams, so I’ll admit to taking a certain amount of satisfaction out of that result. It has to be remembered that, outside of the Intercontinental Cup, Kenya have very little experience at the longer form of the game, so this is as much a learning experience for them as it is for the less experienced Zimbabwean players. The scorecard for this match is below the cut.

In the other matches (no scorecards currently available - sorry), career-best figures of 6/20 by Ed Rainsford during Northerns’ second innings led Centrals to a convincing win in Kwekwe, overturning Northerns’ first-innings lead. In Mutare, tons from Stuart Matsikenyeri and Stephen Nyamuzinga saw Easterns home.

ZC being ZC, there’s no published points table for the Logan Cup at the moment, but by my reckoning it should look something like this:

                Pl  W L D
 1 Westerns      2  2 0 0
 2 Easterns      2  1 0 1
 3 Centrals      2  1 1 0
 4 Northerns     2  0 1 1
=5 Southerns     1  0 1 0
=5 Kenya Select  1  0 1 0

Please bear in mind that’s an entirely unofficial ranking table.

Kenya Select 1st innings
MA Ouma 	c Coventry b Mupariwa 		32
DO Obuya 	c Williams b Mupariwa 		0
CO Obuya 	c & b Dabengwa 			24
AO Suji 	run out (Mpofu) 		2
T Mishra 	c Coventry b Kusano 		89
A Obanda 	c Mabuza b Dabengwa 		33
RR Patel 	c Williams b Dabengwa 		4
N Odhiambo 	c Dabengwa b Mupariwa 		15
HA Varaiya 	b Mupariwa 			8
RL Bhudia 	b Dabengwa 			6
AS Luseno 	not out 			0
	    Extras 	(lb 2, w 1, nb 2) 	5
	    Total 	(all out; 83.4 overs) 	218

Fall of wickets: 1-6 (DO Obuya, 1.5 ov), 2-50 (CO Obuya, 17.1 ov),
3-60 (Suji, 21.4 ov), 4-60 (Ouma, 22.2 ov), 5-174 (Obanda, 62.4 ov),
6-189 (Mishra, 76.5 ov), 7-189 (Patel, 77.3 ov),
8-211 (Odhiambo, 82.2 ov), 9-218 (Bhudia, 82.6 ov),
10-218 (Varaiya, 83.4 ov)

Bowling 	O 	M 	R 	W 	Econ
CB Mpofu 	12 	4 	24 	0 	2.00
T Mupariwa 	15.4 	6 	27 	4 	1.72 	(1w)
S Kusano 	12 	2 	44 	1 	3.66 	(1nb)
KM Dabengwa 	25 	9 	45 	4 	1.80
J Nyumbu 	12 	2 	47 	0 	3.91
SC Williams 	7 	2 	29 	0 	4.14 	(1nb)

Westerns 1st innings
T Hove 		c Ouma b Odhiambo 		10
F Takarusenga 	c Ouma b Suji 			16
B Mujuru 	c Patel b Odhiambo 		7
SC Williams 	st Ouma b Varaiya 		59
CK Coventry 	c Suji b Luseno 		7
MM Mabuza 	lbw b Varaiya 			30
KM Dabengwa 	c Mishra b Varaiya 		13
T Mupariwa 	lbw b CO Obuya 			10
CB Mpofu 	not out 			11
S Kusano 	lbw b CO Obuya 			12
J Nyumbu 	lbw b CO Obuya 			3
	    Extras 	(b 7, lb 6, w 4, nb 6) 	23
	    Total 	(all out; 74.4 overs) 	201

Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Hove, 16.4 ov), 2-38 (Mujuru, 20.6 ov),
3-45 (Takarusenga, 25.4 ov), 4-80 (Coventry, 32.3 ov),
5-128 (Williams, 49.1 ov), 6-149 (Dabengwa),
7-173 (Mabuza, 62.6 ov), 8-173 (Mupariwa, 64.1 ov),
9-191 (Kusano, 69.6 ov), 10-201 (Nyumbu, 74.4 ov)

Bowling 	O 	M 	R 	W 	Econ
N Odhiambo 	13 	4 	20 	2 	1.53 	(3nb)
AS Luseno 	12 	1 	46 	1 	3.83 	(2nb, 2w)
RL Bhudia 	9 	2 	16 	0 	1.77
HA Varaiya 	21 	9 	44 	3 	2.09
AO Suji 	4 	3 	4 	1 	1.00 	(1nb)
RR Patel 	4 	0 	13 	0 	3.25 	(1w)
CO Obuya 	11.4 	0 	45 	3 	3.85 	(1w)

Kenya Select 2nd innings 	R
DO Obuya 	c Coventry b Kusano 		20
A Obanda 	c Coventry b Kusano 		35
HA Varaiya 	c Mabuza b Dabengwa 		7
CO Obuya 	c Hove b Mpofu 			15
T Mishra 	lbw b Nyumbu 			37
MA Ouma 	c Nyumbu b Dabengwa 		0
AO Suji 	lbw b Dabengwa 			0
RR Patel 	b Mpofu 			8
N Odhiambo 	lbw b Dabengwa 			15
RL Bhudia 	b Mpofu 			20
AS Luseno 	not out 			0
	    Extras 	(w 1) 			1
	    Total 	(all out; 70.5 overs) 	158

Fall of wickets: 1-38 (DO Obuya, 14.1 ov), 2-46 (Varaiya, 17.5 ov),
3-69 (CO Obuya, 30.4 ov), 4-86 (Obanda, 38.5 ov), 5-91 (Ouma),
6-91 (Suji, 47.3 ov), 7-121 (Mishra, 62.6 ov),
8-124 (Patel, 64.3 ov), 9-150 (Odhiambo, 69.6 ov),
10-158 (Bhudia, 70.5 ov)

Bowling 	O 	M 	R 	W 	Econ
CB Mpofu 	15.5 	5 	35 	3 	2.21
T Mupariwa 	9 	1 	21 	0 	2.33
KM Dabengwa 	27 	11 	39 	4 	1.44
J Nyumbu 	8 	3 	28 	1 	3.50
S Kusano 	11 	2 	35 	2 	3.18 	

Westerns 2nd innings (target: 176 runs)
T Hove 		c Mishra b Varaiya 		8
CK Coventry 	b Odhiambo 			76
B Mujuru 	lbw b CO Obuya 			9
SC Williams 	b Varaiya 			6
MM Mabuza 	run out (Obanda) 		0
KM Dabengwa 	not out 			35
F Takarusenga 	c Ouma b CO Obuya 		7
T Mupariwa 	not out 			2
	    Extras 	(b 2, lb 3, nb 6) 	11
	    Total 	(6 wickets; 37.3 overs) 154

Did not bat: CB Mpofu, S Kusano, J Nyumbu

Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Hove, 6.3 ov), 2-66 (Mujuru, 14.6 ov),
3-81 (Williams, 19.3 ov), 4-81 (Mabuza, 20.3 ov),
5-124 (Coventry, 29.4 ov), 6-144 (Takarusenga, 37.2 ov)

Bowling 	O 	M 	R 	W 	Econ
N Odhiambo 	9 	2 	31 	1 	3.44 	(1nb)
AS Luseno 	4.3 	0 	28 	0 	6.22 	(4nb)
HA Varaiya 	6 	1 	34 	2 	5.66
RL Bhudia 	4 	0 	11 	0 	2.75
CO Obuya 	13 	2 	32 	2 	2.46 	(1w)
T Mishra 	1 	0 	13 	0 	13.00