Zimbabwe

News Zimbabwe captain was pleased as his young side held its nerve and won the second T20I against Bangladesh Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza lauded his young side for keeping its cool and sealing a 23-run win over Bangladesh in the second T20I. It was the hosts’ first win of the tour after going down in

Preview The hosts were swept 3-0 in the preceding ODI series Big Picture The opening T20I against Zimbabwe will be Bangladesh’s first of potentially 16 matches in their lead-up to the T20 World Cup in October-November, including matches against Australia, New Zealand and England. In the injury-enforced absence of Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s batting line-up will

Report Zimbabwe brought in Ryan Burl and Donald Tiripano in place of Richard Ngarava and Tinashe Kamunhukamwe Toss Bangladesh chose to bowl vs Zimbabwe Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal decided to field first in the third ODI against Zimbabwe in Harare. It’s the first time that Iqbal has won the toss in the series. The visitors

Preview Brendan Taylor to lead, with Zimbabwe set to make a slew of changes Big Picture The one-off Test in Harare wasn’t part of the World Test Championship, neither are the T20Is at the end of the tour of any particular consequence. But these three ODIs carry much more significance for both sides. They are

News He bowled 23 wicketless overs of offspin during the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Harare Zimbabwe’s offspinning-allrounder Roy Kaia has been reported with a suspect bowling action during the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Harare. Kaia bowled a combined 23 overs across two innings without picking up a wicket. With bat, he bagged a

News “When we get into such good positions, we have to get them by the throat and we have to finish them off” Donald Tiripano has said that he is ready to take up the challenge of batting higher up the order, after he frustrated Bangladesh with a 144-ball 52 coming in at No.5 in

News The Zimbabwe duo had recently come into contact with family members who tested positive for Covid Zimbabwe are likely to miss out on the services of Sean Williams and Craig Ervine for the one-off Test against Bangladesh that starts on Wednesday in Harare. Both players have gone into self-isolation after coming in contact with

News The 30-year old seamer last played for Zimbabwe in November 2020 but has been an active participant in domestic cricket this year Tendai Chatara, the Zimbabwe fast bowler who has been absent from the Test arena for nearly three years, has found his way back into the team for the one-off match against Bangladesh

News Jarvis, who last played a Test in January 2020, battled a trio of illnesses earlier this year Zimbabwe fast bowler Kyle Jarvis has announced his retirement from all cricket, after a year of illness and injury. Having made his international debut in 2009, he has played 13 Tests, 49 ODIs and 22 T20Is, picking

Pakistan 374 for 6 (Fawad 108*, Butt 91, Abid 60) lead Zimbabwe 176 by 198 runs This might not have been the best advert for Test cricket, but it is precisely days like these Fawad Alam has come to relish. With Pakistan needing to press home an advantage following an under-par Zimbabwe first-innings total, the

Report Allrounder Luke Jongwe makes his debut for Zimbabwe in the second Test Toss Pakistan opt to bowl vs Zimbabwe Pakistan have won the toss and elected to bat in the second Test against Zimbabwe in Harare. The visitors will look to make amends for the last time they played a series in Zimbabwe, when

News Former Zimbabwe captain and coach may face a separate investigation by his country’s prosecuting authority Heath Streak, the former Zimbabwe captain and coach who received an eight-year ban from the ICC for breaching the anti-corruption code, has “apologised” and taken “full responsibility” for his actions but asserts he was not involved in any attempts

Luke Jongwe picked up nine wickets in the three T20Is against Pakistan © AFP/Getty Images Zimbabwe have named five uncapped players – Luke Jongwe, Richard Ngarava, Roy Kaia, Milton Shumba and Tanaka Chivanga – in their 16-man squad for the series of two Tests against Pakistan, the first of which starts in Harare on April

News Full Members outside the WTC have been pushing for a more formalised “second division” for the WTC An enhanced structure for more multi-day cricket for Full Members outside the World Test Championship (WTC) and Associates could be a possibility in the next cricket calendar. Though the discussions, which took place last week at the

News Allrounder feared he had cancer until tests came back negative, but his recovery is still expected to take several weeks Sikandar Raza will be out of action for an indefinite period after suffering an infection on his bone marrow, which was suspected to be cancerous at one stage. Following surgery on April 2 to

Big picture Pakistan’s southern Africa adventure has moved to Zimbabwe, where they will play three T20Is and two Tests, seemingly under less pressure than they were across the border. Zimbabwe have not qualified for the T20 World Cup, neither are they part of the World Test Championship. They are, as Pakistan’s head coach Misbah-ul-Haq put

News Brendan Taylor and Craig Ervine return, but Sikandar Raza misses out because of injury Sean Williams will continue to lead Zimbabwe’s T20I side in their upcoming three-match series at home in Harare against Pakistan in the continued absence of their regular white-ball captain Chamu Chibhabha, who has been sidelined with a thigh injury since

News Agarwal was also the corruptor who had contacted Shakib Al Hasan ‘Mr X’, who gave Heath Streak two bitcoins while also presenting the former Zimbabwe captain with an expensive phone for his wife, is understood to be Indian businessman Deepak Agarwal, who was banned last year until 2022 by the ICC for breaching various

Heath Streak and Deepak Agarwal started chatting on the pretext of organising a T20 league in Zimbabwe, in September 2017. Streak, the iconic former Zimbabwe captain, was the head coach of the national team at the time, and Agarwal, simply a Delhi-based businessman. Agarwal wasn’t yet banned (for two years) by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit

News Streak is understood to have facilitated approaches by a corruptor to people within teams he was coach at Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has been banned for eight years after being charged with – and admitting to – five breaches of the ICC’s anti-corruption code, including accepting a payment in bitcoins from a potential

Report Zimbabwe make three changes: Madhevere, Tiripano and Mavuta out; Masakadza, Shumba and Akram in Toss Afghanistan opt to bat vs Zimbabwe Afghanistan have won the toss and elected for first strike – batting first for the third game in a row, though they had been inserted in the first game – in the final

Report Zimbabwe have also fielded the same XI that lost the first game by 48 runs Afghanistan have named an unchanged playing XI and opted for first strike after winning the toss in the second T20I against Zimbabwe – who also fielded the same XI as in the first game – in Abu Dhabi on

Big Picture Cricket is a confidence game. Afghanistan, searching for a spark in the first Test in which they were ambushed in less than two days, found it a week later in the second Test. And they’ve carried that forward into their favourite format, the T20s, breaking little sweat in seeing off Zimbabwe in the

Report Five of the Afghanistan players, including Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Gulbadin Naib, landed late in the UAE Toss Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bowl vs Afghanistan Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams called correctly at the toss and decided to put Afghanistan in to bat in the first T20I in Abu Dhabi. Tarisai Musakanda

Preview Sean Williams’ side will also want to prove a point, given they won’t feature in this year’s T20 World Cup Big picture After a hard-fought Test series where the honours were shared, the focus in Abu Dhabi shifts to the three T20Is that Afghanistan and Zimbabwe will play within the span of four days.

News Zimbabwe captain praises the fight his team showed even though they lost the second Test to Afghanistan Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams lauded the way his side fought back in their second innings of the second Test against Afghanistan even though they lost the match on the fifth evening, thus missing out on a series

Report He bagged his 10th wicket of the match to send back Tiripano five short of a maiden Test hundred Lunch Zimbabwe 287 and 329 for 8 (Williams 137*, Tiripano 95, Rashid 6-127) lead Afghanistan 545 for 4 dec by 72 runs For 70.4 overs, Sean Williams and Donald Tiripano had made Zimbabwe dream. Exactly

Report Zimbabwe are 168 runs behind and have already lost both opening batsmen, on a surface that is now taking significant turn Lunch Zimbabwe 287 (Raza 85*, Rashid 4-138) & 90 for 2 (Musakanda 9*, Williams 35*) trail Afghanistan 545 for 4 (Hashmatullah 200*, Jamal 55*) by 168 runs Afghanistan are eight wickets away from

Report Prince Masvaure’s career-best 65 ushered Zimbabwe through most of the morning session Lunch Zimbabwe 145/2 (Musakanda 23*, Williams 8*) trail Afghanistan 545 for 4 (Shahidi 200*, Jamal 55*) by 400 runs Prince Masvaure‘s career-best 65 ushered Zimbabwe through most of the morning session but his dismissal in the third over before lunch gave Afghanistan

Report With nothing in the pitch for seam or spin, the duo continued to grind Zimbabwe’s attack down Afghanistan 388 for 3 (Afghan 137*, Shahidi 127*) v Zimbabwe Afghanistan racked up their highest Test score, amassing more than the 342 they scored against Bangladesh in September 2019, on the second day of the second Test