Right, I'd like to know who you guys think are the brightest prospects for our cricketing future, both batting and bowling.
You can choose 3 batters, three spinners, and three fast bowlers. (Younger cricketers, i.e not the guys who have been playing for a long perioid of time).
So here are my top nine future stars:
Batting:
Malcolm Waller: has had another great first class season, and should be solidly in the Zimbabwe A side.
PJ Moor: I know he's stil very young, and hasn't set the first class circuit alight, but I've personally seen him play, and of what i saw i was very impressed. He hits the ball very hard and has great hands. Give him four/five years, and he'll be a great option for test cricket.
Stephen Marrilliar: Although he's not particularly young, he's still a great prospect for opening the batting. He's got the ability to stay in and grind down the opposition, scoring runs freely in the process. He's had a very good first class season, one to look out for.
Spinners:
I'm not too sure, Mushangwe is a great legspinning prospect, but I'm not 100% up to date with our young spinners. Perhaps you guys could help me out there.
Fast Bowlers:
Tendai Chitara:Fast, tall, fit, and still only 19. Enough said. What a star he's going to be.
Kyle Jarvis: Again, tall, young, fit, fast, and handsome. Great prospect to partner Chris Mpofu in the long run for sure. Slightly quicker than Chitara (able to bowl 90mph), but needs to keep himself fit.
Ian Nicholson: again, a very good prospect. Has the ability to swing the ball away at pace, and generally bowls full, something the others bowlers can take note of.
He seems to have dropped off the scene though. Probably Shingi Masakadza is the most promising pacer right now but far too expensive, in my opinion, to be a realistic prospect in the short term. We can't afford to play guys that consistently go at 10 an over. But after a few years in the Zimbabwe A team sprinkled with a few ODI's here and there I think he's going to turn into something special. He looks pretty lively when he's bowling back of a length around 140km, he's the only quick who seems capable of it. He needs to tighten up his control (from memory he bowls too full, too regularly), not sure if it's an action problem or the pressure of international cricket - something that Streak will need to work closely with him on.
