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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...

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 ...

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 performin...

Rising Stars Dominate Chevrons Line-Up For Tri-Series in Bangladesh By Perkins-Tino Bare The Zimbabwe Cricket team is set to leave for Bangladesh tomorrow with three Rising Stars Academy call-ups making the all the noise. The Chevrons are set to feature in a tri-series pitting Bangladesh and Sri Lanka starting on the 15 th in Mirpur Bangladesh. The three are 19 year old Ryan Murray, 20 year old Brian Mavuta who makes his debut and also 21 year old blessing Muzarabani who earned his place after a decen outing with the Proteas in which he was able to maintain speeds of 140km/h with the pink ball down in South Africa. He will be looking to build on that reputation he has started to build for himself as a genuine seamer. Brian Mavuta is reveling at the call-up for the selectors have sort of decided build the team to be centered around the Rising Stars academy with Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis looking to add more experience to a squad that in essence still has a lot to learn...

By Perkins-Tino Bare It was expected that the Chevrons would lose to the Proteas but noone would`ve imagined that they`d lose by an innings and 120 runs inside 2 days. The Chevrons were blown away in such a maner that the match only lasted 907 balls and discours has been more on how we can close the gap between the top tier nations and the lower ranked nations in the name of Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan. 'It seemed they were justbetter than us. We were blown away by their seamers. they didn`t let up, they hit their areas consistently, there was just enough in the wicket and we didn`t adjust to that" said the Chevrons captain Graeme Cremer in a post-match interview. He later added "We knew it was going to be tough, but maybe not this tough. We know we have a long way to go, especially in Test Cricket and in conditions which are not flat . when   it`s seaming around and bouncing and turning - we need to get used to that . The Chevron`s coach Heath Streak hi...

By Perkins-Tino Bare The Zimbabwe Cricket team was involved in two back to back Test matches against South Africa A and New Zealand over the holidays and yes you guessed it they lost both of them handing the series to New Zealand in a spectacular manner. Prior to that they had warmed themselves up with a date with our neighbours as they took on South Africa A in two unoffical tests with the visitors romping on to victory in the second 4-Day match played out in Bulawayo whilst they could only manage a draw in the first match played at Harare Sports Club going on to lose the series. How Do You Play Test Cricket Now looking from the matches that the Chevrons lost, that is against New Zealand out in Bulawayo. The Chevs still need to get the basics correct first on how to approach a test match because from the look of things the lads had no clue on how exactly to approach the game let alone be competitive on the field of play. This was evident especiall...

By Perkins-Tino Bare Zimbabwe Cricket yesterday announced major changes as it sacked coach Dav Whatmore with Makhaya Ntini taking over on an interim basis whille Lance Klusener was appointed as the batting coach. Tatenda Taibu was selected as the new convener of selectors taking over from Kenyon Ziehl who had also just been appointed. Hamilton Masakadza was also stripped of the captain`s armband in all three formats of the game and Graeme Cremer takes over from him.  In a statement which was released by Zimbabwe Cricket, the decisions came after a board meeting which was reviewing the dismal campaign of the Chevrons at the World Cup T20 when we bowed out as the preliminary stages losing out on our place to Afghanistan. “The Zimbabwe Cricket board has made some changes following its review of the technical reports on the senior men’s performance at the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 tournament, which was hosted by India earlier this year,” reads ZC’s statement. “Head coach, Davenell What...