South Africa A Tour of Zimbabwe

 South Africa A seized the series however, as they have done throughout the series, Zimbabwe held their own.

Wellington Masakadza got 4 wickets in the match to end with 6 in the series but could not help South Africa A from.reaching 287 - the highest total of the series.

In the chase, Zimbabwe were let down by their batsmen 5 of the 6 opening batsmen out for 11 runs or fewer. From 85-5,  they would have been pleased to have got to 251 but they left too much for their lower order.

Andile Phelukwayo got 143 runs across the three games to claim the most runs across the three games.

5 T20s start on Monday. 

South Africa A tour of Zimbabwe

 South Africa A have had an inauspicious start to their tour of Zimbabwe despite some decent individual performances. Despite a score of 87 from all rounder Andile Phelukwayo and a score of 273, Zimbabwe managed to chase down the total with relative ease despite the match finishing with Zim needing 7 runs in 2 and a half overs.

Today South Africa scored less than they did in their first ODI (266) but had Zimbabwe 4 down for 93 before the rain set in. Reeza Hendricks was the biggest scorer with 102 off 107.

Wickets have been shared fairly evenly for both teams but Lizaad Williams' 4-48 is the best combined across the two games.

The deciding ODI is on Friday before 5 T20s. 

Capricorn Women's Tri-Series 2022 Wrap Up

As perhaps has been expected, Zimbabwe have dominated this competition; winning all their matches including a comprehensive victory by 7 wickets with 65 balls remaining in today’s final against Namibia. On the other end of the scale, Uganda went winless throughout the competition.

 

Despite this lack of team success, Uganda’s Janet Mbabazi was the highest wicket taker with 11 wickets. Zimbabwe’s Chipo Mugeri-Tirpiano fell away after her first two scores of 80 and 46 but still ended up top of the batters with 172 runs across 5 games. An impressive feat considering she sat out 2 games.

Capricorn Women's Tri-Series 2022

 This looks likely to be a low scoring tournament. 

Namibia limped to 90-9 in their twenty with Evelyn Anyipo gutting their top order in a killer 4th over that read W . W . W . 

Anyipo was let down by her batters though, as they fell short by 12 runs in the chase. Only three batters got into double figures. 

In the afternoon matches Zimbabwe had to fight for their win against Uganda. Zim put on just 100 thanks to Concy Aweko's 3-10; the best figures of the tournament so far. Zimbabwe's total would have looked even bleaker if it weren't for Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano who again top scored with 46. She is the tournament's highest run scorer. 

Tomorrow is a rest day with games resuming on Saturday. 

 

Capricorn Women's Tri-Series 2022

 Been a bit quiet on the women's cricket front of late but the wait is finally over as Zimbabwe, Namibia and Uganda play out the Capricorn Women's Tri-Series over the next week.

The opening game provided something of a shock as 11th ranked Zimbabwe were turned over by 21st placed Namibia; theoretically the lowest placed team of the three.

It was the Zimbabweans strike rates that let them down with only Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano scoring at greater than a run a ball. She scored 62% of the team's 130 runs in the twenty overs. Namibia did not find the chase a cake walk but paced their innings better to reach the total with 3 balls left in it.

Namibia play Uganda tomorrow. 

Nepal Pro Club Championship Wrap Up

 The Cricket Association of Rupandehi are the Pro Club champions of Nepal as they beat Malaysia XI by 7 wickets with 6 balls remaining. 

Malaysia did not make it easy for them as they registered 140-6 in the first innings - the highest total of the tournament. Despite the stern target, Rupandehi made light work of the chase largely thanks to opener Prajjwol Thapa who got 71 off 61 and left the arena with his team needing just 7 more runs for victory. 

Rohit Paudel had a good tournament for Nepal Army Club with 190 - however exactly half of those runs came from one match against the Armed Police. 

Rupandehi's Basir Ahamad got 2 wickets in the final to take his tally to 10 for the tournament. Notable mention needs to go to Sachin K Singh who got figures of 4-1-20-6 in his one game for Push Sports Delhi against Nepal Police Club and never played again. The man knew he had peaked. 

Nepal Pro Club Championship Update

 Before tomorrow's showpiece final, it was time to to sort out the chaff from the slightly better chaff with the 5th and 3rd place playoffs. 

The 5th placed play off was a total crushing of Push Sports Delhi by the Armed Police Force. The Police's Bhuvan Karki must feel like he's walking on the moon thanks to figures of 4-23 as PSD were all out for 62. Other than their opener, the highest score achieved was 6 by their number 11. 

The 3rd place playoff was more of a battle, but still a bowlers affair. Uttar Pradesh put on 139-8 - the joint highest total of the tournament. This was backed up by an all round performance with the ball; however Vipin Chandra (one of two bowlers to get 3-16) gets my player of the match award as he also contributed 11 with the bat. Nepal Army Club will have to settle for fourth this year.