Perkins-Tino Bare

By Perkins-Tino Bare Zimbabwe will be looking to unleash Cephas Zhuwawo and Solomon Mire in the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers as they employ an aggressive approach with the bat. The pair are set to enforce the top-order which has of late hasn’t performed.   Speaking at a Press briefing, Graeme Cremer revealed that the two are set to be right up the top order and then Brendan Taylor will be set to enforce the experience as the two are essentially hard hitters. Sean Williams is set to have a screw removed from his finger on Thursday before the tournament and he is set to join the team at the group stages.   The team looks fairly balanced at the top as we have managed to get hard hitters with Cephas Zhuwawo and Solomon Mire. The s has been one thing that has been really letting the team down which has been an ineffective top order which then just puts too much pressure on the middle order setting it up for a classical Chevron collapse.   Cremer also added th

By Perkins-Tino Bare   Ryan Burl and Tarisai Musakunda were dropped from the Zimbabwe Cricket squad as Sean Williams and Cephas Zhuwawo will replace the two in the current squad which was blown away by Afghanistan 4-1 in their 5 match ODI series which was played in the UAE.   The pair were dropped after a string of bad performances especially from Ryan Burl who had previous scores of 2,11,0 and 10 with the bat whilst he only managed to grab a wicket in the 4 matches that he played.   Tarisai Musakunda was equally missing from action as he failed to grab a wicket from the two matches that he played in the series. Cephas Zhuwawo had been calling for an inclusion into the team with his performances on the pitch in the domestic league with his best being his double century 265 he scored for the Eagles against Rhinos in a Logan Cup match. He then went on to stamp his name in the Chevrons squad in the series against lowly ranked Kenya staging a show with the bat a

By Perkins-Tino Bare The Chevrons lost by six wickets to Afghanistan as they were bowled out for 154 and slumped 1-2 in their 5 match ODI series against Afghanistan.   Zimbabwe got off to a bad start as they lost Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor and Solomon Mire all for 44 bringing the Chevrons to 44-3 in the 7th over. Sikandar Raza and Craig Ervine stabilised the fall of wickets for a while as they took the Chevrons to 117 but by then Rashid Khan had already done the damage to the team losing their last 6 wickets for just 29 runs.   The Chevrons could only get to 154 all out which turned out to be a small task for Afghanistan to reach in just 27.3 overs. The collapse of the lower end batting line up just once again piles on the pressure to guys like Malcolm Waller and Ryan Burl to prove their worth in the team. This will definitely increase the calls of Cephas Zhuwawo in the team to either replace Ryan Burl or Malcolm waller who haven’t been performing of late