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First-round matches are due to kick off on Thursday (17th) - current uncertainty in Zim doesn't appear to be affecting the cricket yet. Matches are:
Easterns v Northerns at Mutare Sports Club
Centrals v Westerns at Kwekwe Sports Club
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Don't be surprised if there's another hold up...
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The official ZC website has just put up a very smart looking page for the Logan Cup.

http://www.zimcricket.org/logancup/

I highly doubt it will be updated sufficiently regularly, but it does look promising...
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aydee wrote:The official ZC website has just put up a very smart looking page for the Logan Cup.

http://www.zimcricket.org/logancup/

I highly doubt it will be updated sufficiently regularly, but it does look promising...


ZC has an overstaffed media department , and yet its one of the worst ever amongts all full member nations.
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End of the 3rd day...

And no news of the matches, if they are even happening that is...
They happened alright...
Northerns beat Easterns by 65 runs.
Centrals beat Westerns by 7 wickets.
Both matches ended on day three. No details from ZC yet, but CricInfo have a few details here.
I've tried to decipher Cricinfo's scarce details, this is what I have come up with:


Logan Cup
Northerns vs Easterns
Nthns (?/???, B Taylor 62, S Masakadza 3/??, S Mujaji 3/?? & ?/???, T Maruma 7/82) def. Estns (?/???, H Masakadza 60, J Marumisa 52, R Price 4/12 & 10/154, R Price 5/39, G Cremer 3/42)

Logan Cup
Centrals vs Westerns
Ctrls (?/??? & 3/???) def. Wstns (10/187, T Ngulube 111 & ?/???)


Worth mentioning that (reported on Cricinfo) a lot of players want to travel to England to play club cricket, but aren't being permitted to. Regis Chakabva and Friday Kasteni are in Australia at the Centre of Excellence, which is great news (but bad news for Northerns who are without both Chakabva and Taibu who is in India not playing cricket).
its good to see that easterns are finally getting beaten :) It should be a close tournment and i think easterns are going to loose their title to Northerns because on paper they are the stronger side. ZC still havent relesed any scorecards which isnt suprising :roll:
Brendan Taylor, Ray Price and Graeme Cremer alone should be enough to win the title for Northerns.

What I will be interested to see is which players will make comebacks. Last year it was Charles Coventry who made an unexpected appearance. It would be nice to see Gavin Ewing return this year. He returned to Zimbabwe about a week or two ago.
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I don't know anything about Tafafdzwa Ngulube. Fair play to him, the only century of the first round in a low scoring game, and still a teenager.
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brmtaylor.com admin wrote:Taibu who is in India not playing cricket


Yes, this is very big loss for both budding Zimbabwean cricketers, who would have gained a lot by interacting with him, and Taibu himself. Nobody is gaining anything, and I don't see Taibu getting a game for Kolkata.
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Well, Taibu's gaining a healthy paycheck. Can't see sitting in the pavilion doing anything to help his playing, though.
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aydee wrote:I don't know anything about Tafafdzwa Ngulube. Fair play to him, the only century of the first round in a low scoring game, and still a teenager.


From late 2007:


Tafadzwa Ngulube

Teams: Bulawayo Athletic Club

A wicket-keeper batsman, his career highlight would be being selected for Matabeleland in the 2006 Faithwear Cup. In 2007, he played club cricket for Bulawayo Athletic Club in the National League.


So he is a relative unknown as you say. He's considered to be one of the up and coming batsmen for Westerns, and with Coventry gone (??) is basically an automatic selection as the first choice wicket keeper - as he was for BAC. A century on his First Class debut is certainly promising, and he seems to be one to keep an eye on.
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Having price back will definetly help a lot of the budding young zimbo bowlers who can learn a lot from the man!! Also we have Brent and duffin playing for southerns who have not yet played!! There are a few classy players about still..To have novices playing against novices makes no sense to me so its good to have some of the Big players still playing in the logan cup
The standards from what i can see look a little better this year with Price and most of the national side playing I think this is going to be a good contest as the sides look fairly evenly matched. it will also be interesting to see if any up and coming players shine and give themselves a chance in the national side. I just hope ZC release the scorecards for the matches 😂 .... theres no chance!
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ZC HAVE released the scorecards and they are on the cricinfo page under logan cup
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jimbo wrote:ZC HAVE released the scorecards and they are on the cricinfo page under logan cup


There's hope for them yet. :)

I was expecting them to turn up this time after the T20 cards were made available fairly quickly. Glad to see they didn't take too long to appear...
Its interesting that the 2 teams that were in the finals of last years logan cup (Easterns and westerns) have been beaten in their first games. i think this years is going to be an interesting tournment and i predict Northerns to win it.
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Northerns v Westerns, Day One

Northerns 234/2 (Tichana 85*, Chigumbura 93*; Mpofu 1/39, Nyumbu 1/41)

Westerns yet to bat.
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where did you get the score from i cant find it anywhere
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