Zim U13 & U15: Ekurhuleni Cricket Festival, Benoni, SA

[maehara]

Zimbabwe's U13 and U15 sides are heading to South Africa to take part in the Ekurhuleni Cricket Festival, to be held in Benoni between June 30th & July 5th. In the Under 13 age group, Zimbabwe will play against the Botswana Development and Invitational teams and a side from Swaziland. In the Under 15 section, Zimbabwe will face Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia and South African provincial sides Griqualand West, North West, South Gauteng and the Ekurhuleni team. The sides will play each other on a roundrobin basis, with 30-over matches in the morning and Twenty20 ties in the afternoon except on the final day when they will play 40-over fixtures.

The Zim teams taking part have been named as:
Under 13: Clive Chitumba, Stuart du Preez, Ryan Higgins, Luke Jongwe, Farai Kabike, Tinashe Kamunhukamwe, Patrick Mambo, Thabani Moyo, Jack Myers, Tafadzwa Potsekai, Campbell Saul, James Suddens and Daniel Wells. (Coach: Shepherd Makunura; Manager: Moses Chitare.)
Under 15: Matthew Bentley, James Bruce, Joy Chitate, Reason Deka, Hieronymo Kabvundura, Gordon Lindsay, Vuyisile Maphala, Isaac Mapimha, Luke Masasire, Tinashe Mungoshi, Tarisai Musakanda, Joseph Musorosekwa, Boyd Rouse, Michael Scruby and Peacemore Zimwa. (Coach: Clement Mahachi; Manager: Brian Rouse.)

I'm not hugely hopeful of much publicity being given to the results of these matches (it's under the auspices of Eastern Cricket Union, who don't appear to have a website, and the ACA, whose website makes no mention of the tourney), but I'll post what I can track down.

[maehara]

Good outing by the two age-group sides for this tourney. The U13's won 7 of their 9 matches - no results, sadly - while the U15's were unbeaten. Here are the results:

30-over matches
Zimbabwe 148/8, EJCCA 123 all out. Zimbabwe won by 25 runs
Zimbabwe 176/5, Easterns 143/6. Zimbabwe won by 33 runs
EJCCA 187, Zimbabwe 188/7. Zimbabwe won by 3 runs
Namibia 148, Zimbabwe 150/8. Zimbabwe won by 2 wickets

Twenty20 matches
Zambia 51 all out, Zimbabwe 52/1. Zimbabwe won by 9 wickets
Northerns 98/6, Zimbabwe 100/1. Zimbabwe won by 9 wickets
SE Gauteng 88, Zimbabwe 89/7. Zimbabwe won by 3 wickets
Griqualand West 128/9, Zimbabwe 131/5. Zimbabwe won by 5 wickets
Zimbabwe 187, Easterns 167. Zimbabwe won by 20 runs.