It has been 12 years since Charles Coventry equalled the then record for the highest individual score in men’s ODIs, with an unbeaten 194 (his only ODI century) against Bangladesh at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. This innings remains the highest score in an ODI defeat as well as the highest for Zimbabwe. On […]
Read More Record Book – Highest ODI scores for ZimbabweTwenty years ago, on 29th July 2001, Zimbabwe’s Hamilton Masakazda created history by becoming the youngest batsman to score a hundred on Test debut. Masakadza was only 17 years and 352 days old when he achieved the feat against the West Indies at Harare (just over a month later, Mohammad Ashraful of Bangladesh became the […]
Read More Record Book – Highest scores on Test debut for ZimbabweHaving revisited the fortunes of Associate nations at the first two World Cups in 1975 and 1979 in Part 1 of this five-part series, we move ahead to the next three editions – held in England in 1983, in India and Pakistan in 1987-88, and in Australia and New Zealand in 1991-92. The decade […]
Read More Specials – Associate nations at the World Cup, Part 2Over the course of history, there have been many talented men and women who have represented their nation in cricket as well as another sport. While most of them played international football or rugby in addition to cricket, a select few were good enough to play field hockey as well. In this post, […]
Read More Test cricketers who played international field hockey
The Cricket Cauldron 