The Masvingo Sports Club is a cricket venue with first-class status in Masvingo . It was the home ground to one of Zimbabwe 's provincial cricket sides, Southern Rocks , until the team's disbandment after the 2013–14 season. The ground has hosted several first class, List A and Twenty20 matches.
14-530: In 2012–13 at the Masvingo Sports Club, Mountaineers dismissed Southern Rocks for 58, leaving themselves a target of 64 for victory, but Southern Rocks in turn dismissed Mountaineers for 26 to win by 37 runs. Two players share the ground record score of 217: Brendan Taylor scored 217 for Mid West Rhinos against Southern Rocks in 2009–10, and Dan Housego scored 217 not out for Mountaineers against Southern Rocks in 2013–14. This article about
28-603: A Zimbabwean sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mountaineers cricket team The Mountaineers is one of five cricket Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are a first-class cricket team, based in the Manicaland and Mashonaland East area. They play their home matches at Mutare Sports Club in Mutare . Following the decline of the standards of cricket in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Cricket decided to use
42-513: A brilliant fightback by Shingirai Masakadza (41*) and Prosper Utseya (30*) in an unbeaten partnership and the winning runs were scored in style by Masakadza with a lofted six off Malcolm Waller . Rhinos captain Vusi Sibanda had tried nine bowlers, but nothing could break the partnership. Despite the fact, that the Mountaineers emerged victorious in this tournament, they were pretty shaky in
56-520: A new set of teams for all the first-class, List A and Twenty20 formats of the domestic game. A total of 5 franchises were named, and the Mountaineers team was based in Manicaland. On their debut in this tournament, Mountaineers finished in third place in the group, with three wins from twelve games. Their debut first-class match against Mashonaland Eagles was a draw, thanks mainly to captain Hamilton Masakadza 's century. Their first first-class win
70-411: A strong domestic player, He was dropped as he did not show enough potential on his first two matches. He made his Test debut against Bangladesh on 4 August 2011. He has been known for his 163* against Pakistan in a lone test match on 2 September 2011. Mawoyo made his test debut against Bangladesh on 4 August 2011. He scored 43 & 35 on debut. On 2 September at Bulawayo, Mawoyo carried his bat through
84-525: Is a Zimbabwean cricket commentator and former cricketer . He formerly played for the Mountaineers in the Zimbabwean Domestic Competition. He began his commentatory career as an occasional cricket commentator in the domestic cricket matches which were held in Zimbabwe and in other cricket series including the Sri Lankan cricket team's tour to Bangladesh in 2017-18 after being dropped out from
98-632: The County Championship , and is supposed to have a long time contract with Mountaineers. For the 2011-12 season, Mountaineers signed overseas players such as Australian star fast bowler, Dirk Nannes , former Black Caps all-rounder Chris Harris , English wicket-keeper Phil Mustard , and Ned Eckersley . Apart from that, former Zimbabwean seamer Gary Brent replaced Donald as coach. Players with international caps are listed in bold . Source: ESPNCricinfo Champion Tino Mawoyo Tinotenda Mbiri Kanayi Mawoyo (born 8 January 1986)
112-607: The Southern Rocks by seven wickets to enter the final. Players who starred for Mountaineers in that match included Hamilton Masakadza (44*), Tino Mawoyo (40), Stuart Matsikenyeri (36), and Shingirai Masakadza (3-20). In the final against the Rhinos, Mountaineers restricted the opposition to a lowly first-innings score of 144, with captain Prosper Utseya taking 3-24. In return, Mountaineers themselves slipped down to 66-7, before
126-848: The final, and put the aforementioned disaster behind them to score a massive nine-wicket win and upset, with the victory mostly possible due to Hamilton Masakadza (64*) and Tatenda Taibu (37*). When the country was debuting in the 2009-10 Logan Cup, the team consisted of Zimbabwean international and domestic players. Key players at that time included Hamilton Masakadza (Captain), Timycen Maruma , Johnson Marumisa , Shingirai Masakadza , Stuart Matsikenyeri , Tino Mawoyo , Natsai Mushangwe , Njabulo Ncube (who later went on to join his home province Matabeleland Tuskers), Tatenda Taibu (who later on joined Southern Rocks), and Prosper Utseya . The Mountaineers made their first major overseas signing when they signed up South African all-rounder Greg Smith . The following season, there were many improvements in
140-434: The group stage. They had 3 wins from 5 games, while counterparts Mashonaland Eagles (the group-toppers), had a better record than them, with 4 wins from 5 games. The Eagles were more dominant, as was proved by the 82-run downing given to them by Eagles bowler Ray Price who took figures of 5 for 12 off just 17 deliveries and took his 5th wicket as Natsai Mushangwe was stumped and the match ended. Mountaineers got better in
154-523: The national team. Mawoyo led the Zimbabwean Under-19 cricket team in six Under-19 One Day Internationals in 2003/4 and the U-19 World Cup the same season. Mawoyo led Zimbabwe during the 2003–2004 U-19 World cup. He was not in form, averaging just 20 with a highest score of 32 not out. He was called up for a Zimbabwe A match against Bangladesh in 2006. He made his ODI debut against Bangladesh
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#1733085851706168-850: The same year. He scored just 10 and 14, so He was not included in the Zimbabwean World Cup Squad the next year. Mawoyo was once appointed Zimbabwe A captain but was stripped of captaincy following inappropriate behaviour by the team which was at Bulawayo camp. He still remained a good batsman in Zimbabwe, being the Highest Run Scorer in the Metbank one-day competition with 424 runs averaging 60.57. He now plays club cricket in England as an overseas player for Wickford Cricket Club in Essex. He made his ODI debut against Bangladesh in 2006. In spite of being
182-459: The squads. Former South African great fast bowler Allan Donald was named as the franchise's head coach, while players like South Africa's Jonathan Beukes , Sean Ervine , and more prominently, former South African great all-rounder Lance Klusener , who playing in 171 ODIs, had an average of 41.10 at an impressive strike-rate of 89.91, Other signings include Liam Dawson , who scored, aged 21, scored 908 runs for Hampshire County Cricket Club , in
196-410: Was against Southern Rocks, whom they crushed by eight wickets. For their third-place finish, Mountaineers could not contest the final. The Mountaineers had a brilliant tournament, winning the championship by defeating Mid West Rhinos in the final by three wickets. They underlined their dominance in the tournament, by finishing top of the pool with 6 wins from 8 games. In the semi-final, they thrashed
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