After their first round home loss to Northerns Easterns bounced back in emphatic fashion to beat Southerns by an innings and seven runs at the Masvingo Sports Club.
Southerns won the toss and elected to bat, and were bowled out for 271 runs on the opening day on Thursday. Shingirai Masakadza and Philemon Kadzitye were the pick of the Easterns bowlers, ripping through the Southerns top and middle order to end with three wickets each. Richmond Mutumbami and Robertson Chinyengetere offered Southerns’ only resistance as each scored 50 runs and they combined well in a partnership for the fourth wicket that produced 75 runs from 126 balls.
The second day’s play was dominated by a double century by Stuart Matsikenyeri as Easterns made 387 runs before they were dismissed by a bowling attack that was led by Tafadzwa Kamungozi who ended with figures of 7/104. Matsikenyeri’s 201, the first double century of the 2007/8 Logan Cup tournament, came off 226 balls. His innings also had two significant partnerships: one for 97 runs which was for the seventh wicket with Steven Nyamuzinga (52) and the other for the tenth with Shingirai Masakadza (27), which produced 100 runs.
No such batting was displayed by Southerns in their second innings as the highest knock was just 26 from Patient Charumbira and the next, 21 from Chamunorwa Chibhabha. Prosper Utseya took 4/25 for Easterns, with the younger Masakadza showing his value by picking up 2/25, but Southerns’ final score of 109 wasn’t quite enough to make Easterns bat again. Scoredcard below the cut.
Southerns 271 (Mutumbami 50, Chinyengetere 50, Kadzitye 3/26) & 109 (Charumbira 26, Utseya 4/25), Easterns 387 (Matsikenyeri 201, Kamungozi 7/104). Easterns win by an innings and 7 runs.
Southerns 1st innings
T Machiri b Masakadza 46
M Chiturumani lbw b Kadziche 1
CJ Chibhabha c Maruma b Kadziche 13
J Chinyengetere lbw b Kadziche 0
R Mutumbami b Utseya 50
R Chinyengetere b Masakadza 50
NB Mahwire lbw b Masakadza 8
P Charumbira c Maruma b Masakadza 38
T Kamungozi st Mutizwa b Utseya 20
H Matanga b Mujaji 16
B Vitori not out 10
Extras (lb 7, w 2, nb 10) 19
Total (all out; 83 overs) 271
Bowling O M R W Econ
S Masakadza 13 0 49 4 3.76
P Utseya 22 4 62 2 2.81
S Matsika 3 1 9 0 3.00
P Kadziche 10.3 4 26 3 2.47
S Mujaji 7 1 31 1 4.42
T Maruma 13 3 35 0 2.69
SK Nyamuzinga 7.3 1 27 0 3.60
S Matsikenyeri 7 1 25 0 3.57
Easterns 1st innings
TMK Mawoyo c Mutumbami b Vitori 10
J Marumisa lbw b Chibhabha 35
F Mutizwa c Machiri b Vitori 0
S Matsikenyeri c Chibhabha b Kamungozi 201
T Maruma c Mahwire b Kamungozi 25
P Utseya c Mahwire b Kamungozi 6
S Matsika c Mahwire b Kamungozi 3
SK Nyamuzinga c R Chinyengetere b Kamungozi 52
S Mujaji b Kamungozi 0
S Masakadza not out 27
P Kadziche c Mutumbami b Kamungozi 6
Extras (b 4, lb 9, w 3, nb 6) 22
Total (all out; 96 overs) 387
Bowling O M R W Econ
P Charumbira 14 3 53 0 3.78
H Matanga 11 1 55 0 5.00
T Kamungozi 33 10 104 7 3.15
NB Mahwire 14 2 55 0 3.92
B Vitori 9 0 37 2 4.11
CJ Chibhabha 13 0 58 1 4.46
T Machiri 2 0 12 0 6.00
Southerns 2nd innings
T Machiri lbw b Masakadza 0
M Chiturumani c Mutizwa b Masakadza 7
CJ Chibhabha c Matsikenyeri b Mujaji 21
J Chinyengetere b Kadziche 6
P Charumbira b Utseya 26
R Chinyengetere run out 0
NB Mahwire c Marumisa b Utseya 4
R Mutumbami not out 21
T Kamungozi b Utseya 0
H Matanga c Maruma b Utseya 14
B Vitori lbw b Maruma 1
Extras (b 4, lb 4, w 1) 9
Total (all out; 39.2 overs) 109
Bowling O M R W Econ
S Masakadza 8 2 25 2 3.12
P Kadziche 6 2 17 1 2.83
S Mujaji 6 2 12 1 2.00
S Matsika 1 0 1 0 1.00
P Utseya 11 2 25 4 2.27
T Maruma 7.2 2 21 1 2.86
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