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[Match Thread] Pro50 & Logan Cup: Tuskers v Mountaineers

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aydee wrote:Pettini, who rarely plays in 4-day cricket for Essex anymore, showing up the standard as well. Good thing that he is playing, so the youngsters get an idea of the standard that they should be aspiring to as FC cricketers.


He has been a fixture in the Essex side for years though and i would says plays most of the FC stuff but wouldn't disagree with saying that he is best known as a OD player (Plays for Saffron Walden CC who i used to play for a few years ago :))
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zimfan1 wrote:

aydee wrote:Pettini, who rarely plays in 4-day cricket for Essex anymore, showing up the standard as well. Good thing that he is playing, so the youngsters get an idea of the standard that they should be aspiring to as FC cricketers.


He has been a fixture in the Essex side for years though and i would says plays most of the FC stuff but wouldn't disagree with saying that he is best known as a OD player (Plays for Saffron Walden CC who i used to play for a few years ago :))


Before today he had only 8 tons in a decade plus career. At least 1 of which was for the Mountaineers. He's not a poor player, by any stretch, but as you say best known as an OD player.
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Captain is Tawanda Mupariwa with Dabengwa vice.

Bruce is not related to Vusi. Meth is likely going back to Canada.

A dull performance by Tuskers and 5-7 dropped catches means they deserve a whooping! Luckily rain is forecast :D
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A big drop down to earth for the Tuskers then from 2010/11 and 12. They were the side to beat to say the least! No Duffin, Meth, Querl, Streak, Coventry, Ewing or Mpofu. Big big big player drain at that particular Franchise hey!
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With so many players out of the game and the national team already in camp it's not surprising to see the standard drop alarmingly. If ZC was healthy all around, half the players on the field today in both matches would play for their franchises' B team.

I hope Pettini will guide Sauramba to his maiden ton tomorrow. The young fella averaged over forty in FC cricket in 2013 and should be an automatic starter for the Mountaineers in any format! And he must take the gloves instead of Mutizwa!
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Don't forget the Irvines.

I think we'll do just fine considering. Our batting depth is great and the guys seem to learn more now than with the experienced players from last years.
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jimmylesaint wrote:Don't forget the Irvines.


... and some of the decent overseas players: Ali, Shafayat, Horton
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Golly, this could be a big innings.
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Tuskers looking down the barrel here.
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Tuskers batting looks very thin as well this could be a big defeat ......

Although the Mountaineers are missing a few bowlers ......

Looking for Chari and Mujuru to make some runs as Chari has big wraps and Mujuru has a decent record .....

Interested to see how Bruce Sibanda goes .....
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Ming wrote:Young Masakadza finishes with bowling stats of 8 wickets for 89 runs, and scores a decent 33 runs in his innings. Am I right in saying that his bowling represents one of the best FC debuts in Zimbabwean cricket history?


Dylon Higgins and Glenn Querl come to mind when it comes to dream debut for bowlers. What was the first match of LTGM like? I remember something impressive very early there too.

By the way, anyone know where is LTGM is right now? Still injured?
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Ming wrote:Young Masakadza finishes with bowling stats of 8 wickets for 89 runs, and scores a decent 33 runs in his innings. Am I right in saying that his bowling represents one of the best FC debuts in Zimbabwean cricket history?


What was the first match of LTGM like? I remember something impressive very early there too.


I think you remember his second coming, when he took 9 wickets in the match on his debut for the Eagles. On his FC debut a few years earlier he went wicketless: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Score ... 14559.html
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jaybro wrote:Possible star of the future ???? Let's hope so ......

I'm confused why he isn't at the 18's WC if he is so good ???


He s from Bulawayo, enough said :)


Careful there..., you might just call HHM back to the forums :D
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foreignfield wrote:I think you remember his second coming, when he took 9 wickets in the match on his debut for the Eagles. On his FC debut a few years earlier he went wicketless: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Score ... 14559.html


Oh yes, I forgot about that untimely early debut robbing him of a more illustrious one years later :)
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