Zimbabwe Cricket Photo Quiz

[samedwards]

Her face resembles that of Sachin Tendulkar. Is it him?

[Conant]

Phew..., what a lass.

[CrimsonAvenger]

Her face resembles that of Sachin Tendulkar. Is it him?

Thats a seriously good educated guess if it was one! Tendulkar it is, and the young lady is Sara, his daughter. Tendulkar's only test wickets against Zim were those of Carlisle and Streak. He also took the wickets of Grant and Andrew Flower, and Alistair Campbell in ODIs. In fact, he has taken Andy's wicket thrice if I am not mistaken.

So, my trick to hide the obvious runs part and ask about wickets did not make much difference

Scores:

CrimsonAvenger: 36
zimfan1: 31
foreignfield : 28
eugene : 26
Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic) : 22
PSR, brmtaylor.com admin: 15
Train Driver: 12
andrewn9: 11
Ming: 10
sloandog: 9
andy24: 8
alan132, aydee: 7
dylan, samedwards: 6
maehara, mdm, cock: 5
Rayzer, Detective RDS, totoro: 4
baiju029, gargamel, Jemisi: 3
Conant, hhm, Flower power, Horo, PieChucker, Tom91, Zimfanatic69: 2
zimdan, Boundary, betterdays, jamthala, auszim, pearl, takleg, ZIMFAN, TheCricketStoreZim, TheBradDevil, zimlover: 1

[foreignfield]

Thanks for that article about Percy Mansell's older brother, Crimson. And Tendulkar's daughter, my ...

325. Well, from the dizzying heights of the Little Master to the depths of cricketing obscurity. You won't find this gentleman's profile on Cricinfo and his only cricketing claim to fame are a couple of Logan Cup matches when it wasn't yet a FC competition. He is better known for his work with the pen, and I have to confess, I only need an excuse to talk about a book of his I'm reading just now ... Who is he?

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[CrimsonAvenger]

Wow! Douglas Rogers played cricket? I tried finding that out sometime back but in vain. Is he related to Barney by any chance? How is "The Last Resort"? Worth a good read?

[foreignfield]

Wow! Douglas Rogers played cricket? I tried finding that out sometime back but in vain. Is he related to Barney by any chance? How is "The Last Resort"? Worth a good read?

Well, that was quick, Crimson. Yes, it is the travel writer Douglas Rogers whose book "The Last Resort" is indeed a good read. I'm about halfway through it and it's full of dry humour and some great stories around his parents' attempts to hang onto their game farm/backpacker lodge near Mutare.

I was born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, (then Umtali, Rhodesia) on November, 11, 1968. I attended Chancellor Junior School, Mutare Boys High, and Prince Edward, a state boarding school in Harare, where my father sent me because they were good at cricket. In 1987 and 1988 I played league cricket in England, and provincial cricket in Zimbabwe.

http://www.douglasrogers.org/about.html

Scores:

CrimsonAvenger: 37
zimfan1: 31
foreignfield : 28
eugene : 26
Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic) : 22
PSR, brmtaylor.com admin: 15
Train Driver: 12
andrewn9: 11
Ming: 10
sloandog: 9
andy24: 8
alan132, aydee: 7
dylan, samedwards: 6
maehara, mdm, cock: 5
Rayzer, Detective RDS, totoro: 4
baiju029, gargamel, Jemisi: 3
Conant, hhm, Flower power, Horo, PieChucker, Tom91, Zimfanatic69: 2
zimdan, Boundary, betterdays, jamthala, auszim, pearl, takleg, ZIMFAN, TheCricketStoreZim, TheBradDevil, zimlover: 1

[foreignfield]

No mention in the book yet of Barney Rogers ...

Douglas Rogers obviously played for Manicaland. Here's an extract from an interview in the New Yorker:

Zimbabweans laugh at things because otherwise they would have to shoot themselves. Some overly earnest people have criticized the book as supposedly making light of such a serious situation, but I’ve not heard this from any Zimbabwean who has read it and lives there. My sister had a book party for me in Harare last week and there was an old cricket teammate of mine there, Kenyon Ziehl, who was quite literally in the process of losing his farm that week after a nine-year battle. He came up to me, huge grin on his face, and said the only reason he stays in Zimbabwe is because the place is so absurdly funny, and that it made him feel alive just being there.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b ... ogers.html

In the book he also recalls flying home from England where he had played club cricket with

a friend who was a good left-handed batsman and wicket keeper, althugh, in truth, I considered myself much better than him. But what do I know? His name was Andy Flower ...

Cricket literally sets the tone for the whole book. In the very first chapter Douglas phones his parents from Berlin where he had just learned about the killing of the first white farmer on April 16th 2000. When he asked his mother if they were allright, she answered:

"It's terrible", she said.
I pictured her and my father barricaded in the house, a mob rattling their gates.
"What's happening? Mom, what's happening?"
"We've already lost four wickets."
"Four what?"
"Four wickeets, darling. Not going very well at all. It's ninety-one for four ..."

I'm not sure he didn't make that up. We played Pakistan the day before, though: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66252.html

If you can get a hand on a copy, it's definitely worth a read!

[foreignfield]

Forgot to ask, has anyone else here read it?

[CrimsonAvenger]

In the book he also recalls flying home from England where he had played club cricket with

a friend who was a good left-handed batsman and wicket keeper, althugh, in truth, I considered myself much better than him. But what do I know? His name was Andy Flower ...

[Jemisi]

That game is a good reminder of how bad we often were even in the golden era. Johnson, Goodwin, Flowers, Streak and the rest and we got spanked by 6 wickets with 7 overs to spare.