Brighton Zhawi Zimbabwe Cricket Senior women’s team captain Mary-Anne Musonda is one of the 40 women selected for the ICC 100% Cricket Future Leaders Programme and she took time to share her grand plans in an interview with BRIGHTON ZHAWI. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q. Zimbabwe Cricket women’s captain and one of ICC’s […]
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Brighton Zhawi They have been called ‘harmless Rhinos,’ ‘chokers’, ‘pretenders’ and all sorts of names associated with a struggling and inconsistent team. The nicknames and disses were a result of their empty cabinet and consistent near-misses. It must have been a ‘here we go again’ feeling when Rhinos were swept away to finish the T20 […]
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Brighton Zhawi There was palpable excitement when the name Tadiwa Marumani was included in the Zimbabwe T20 squad to face Pakistan in April. A new inclusion in any squad naturally draws attention especially if it’s the short format of the game. For Marumani the question was what had the national selectors seen in this 19-year-old […]
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Donald Tiripano was left heartbroken for falling short on a maiden Test hundred when he was dismissed on 95 in the second Test of the recent series against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi. The 33-year-old is set to make a cricket comeback in the Logan Cup after Zimbabwe Cricket offered them a break following the Afghanistan […]
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Brighton Zhawi In this week’s edition of The Third Man Brighton Zhawi (BZ) caught up with a cricket nuffie who is brilliant with the pen. Recently Liam Brickhill (LB) wrote an emotional Zimbabwe Cricket story that got many talking. Read on as Brighton chats with Brickhill, a kind fellow who has written for Espn Cricinfo […]
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The stump mics picked Skandar Raza calling seamer Victor Nyauchi “Mufakose Honda Fit’, during Afghanistan’s innings. But to many Byauchi is simply ‘Vicky Jojo or Jola’. To captain Sean Williams, he is a ‘special player who brings a lot’ to the team. But what is not in doubt is that Nyauchi has won many hearts […]
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I wasn’t really surprised when West Indies all-rounder Rovman Powell said he would name his child ‘Harare’. I am back again, your Third Man. Remember I am on my imaginary tour to Australia for some interviews. But as you may know a flight to Aussie is long and as we deal with turbulence and unusual […]
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The Third Man • Not good enough as a player, but brilliant as coach• The man from Glen View has big dreams for Rwanda Cricket• He believes women’s cricket in Africa is the right direction From a volunteer to a top coach, is how you can write his story or you could take another angle, […]
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