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Zimbabwe Cricket World Cup squad set for warm up matches
14 Jan 2011 at 10:42hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe national cricket team has lined up a warm-up match against neighbours and long-time sparring partners South Africa ahead of the 2011 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup next month.
Zimbabwe had also lined up another warm-up match against Ireland in Dubai where they were to hold a week long intensive training camp, but were forced to make changes after the ICC paired them with the same opponents in one of their two official warm-up matches that will be played in India.
Team manager Lovemore Banda said they were looking for another opponent to replace Ireland for the Dubai warm up match, giving the selectors an opportunity to make their final experiments ahead of their first match against Australia on February 21.
The 15-member World Cup squad, announced on Wednesday, will leave the country on February 2 for Dubai after the completion on the Met-Bank Pro-40 series whose final will be played on January 28 at the Harare Sports Club.
In Dubai, Zimbabwe will be looking to utilise the ICC High Performance Centre as they fine-tune for the global showcase to be jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
They will link-up with legendary and former West Indies batsman Brian Lara who was roped in to help the batsmen who struggled in their last tour of Bangladesh.
After the exclusion of Hamilton Masakadza and Chamu Chibhabha who usually open the bat with Brendan Taylor, the technical team will try middle order batsman Charles Coventry as an opener.
Matabeleland Tuskers' Sean Williams also makes a return to the squad having missed out on the Bangladesh tour through injury.
SquadElton Chigumbura (captain), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Sean Ervine, Gregory Lamb, Shingirai Masakadza, Christopher Mpofu, Raymond Price, Edward Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya and Sean Williams.
Zimbabwe had also lined up another warm-up match against Ireland in Dubai where they were to hold a week long intensive training camp, but were forced to make changes after the ICC paired them with the same opponents in one of their two official warm-up matches that will be played in India.
Team manager Lovemore Banda said they were looking for another opponent to replace Ireland for the Dubai warm up match, giving the selectors an opportunity to make their final experiments ahead of their first match against Australia on February 21.
The 15-member World Cup squad, announced on Wednesday, will leave the country on February 2 for Dubai after the completion on the Met-Bank Pro-40 series whose final will be played on January 28 at the Harare Sports Club.
In Dubai, Zimbabwe will be looking to utilise the ICC High Performance Centre as they fine-tune for the global showcase to be jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
They will link-up with legendary and former West Indies batsman Brian Lara who was roped in to help the batsmen who struggled in their last tour of Bangladesh.
After the exclusion of Hamilton Masakadza and Chamu Chibhabha who usually open the bat with Brendan Taylor, the technical team will try middle order batsman Charles Coventry as an opener.
Matabeleland Tuskers' Sean Williams also makes a return to the squad having missed out on the Bangladesh tour through injury.
SquadElton Chigumbura (captain), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Sean Ervine, Gregory Lamb, Shingirai Masakadza, Christopher Mpofu, Raymond Price, Edward Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya and Sean Williams.
Source - Byo24News
