The Zimbabwe Under-19 cricket team left for South Africa Sunday to compete at the Cubs Week tournament before locking horns with the hosts’ Under 19 team in five limited overs matches and two Pro20 matches.
Zimbabwe left with a squad of 15 players and a five-men technical team led by head coach Chris Harris and his assistant Walter Chawaguta for the tour which will take place until January 23.
New Zealander Harris and his youngsters are scheduled to take part at the Cubs Week tournament in Cape Town which starts today and ends on Friday.
Cricket South Africa Under-19 Franchise Cubs Week will feature the Nashua Titans, Chevrolet Knights, Nashua Dolphins, Cape Cobras and the Highveld Lions.
Namibia Under-19 are also expected to take part at the tournament.
After the Cubs Week tournament, the Zimbabwe team will then move to Johannesburg where they are expected to meet their South African counterparts in five limited overs matches and two Pro20 matches.
Zimbabwe’s team manager Levy Hombarume said the team had prepared well for the tournament.
“The preparations for the tour went on very well and the youngsters had an opportunity to play some practice matches against the Mashonaland Eagles ‘B’ side.
“They won two of the three matches played at the Country Club and Harris had expressed satisfaction at the level of preparedness,” said Hombarume.
God to see that the boys will play 5 ODI's and 2 t20's as well as the Cubs week. Will mean we will be able to see who are the cream of the crop of this new batch of under 19's
Zimbabwe under 19 lose by one wicket to Titans under 19
Zimbabwe 149
C.Price 29 K.Bowie 18*
Titans 150 for 9
C.Price 3 for 15 off 7.3 overs
K.Bowie 2 for 16 off 5 overs
L.Nherera 2 for 33 off 9 overs
Zimbabwe under 19 lose by 67 runs to Cobras under 19
Cobras 257 for 9
Unfortunately Cobras top batman dropped on 32 and went on to make 136 not out
R.Kaia 3 for 48 off 10 overs
Zimbabwe 190 all out
Choughan 45 ( off 97 balls)
R.Kaia 30 off 42
Whats wrong with our under 19 .we used to be world beaters and seeing us go down to SA franchise teams is a dissapointment .\it only goes to show how low standards had gone in Zim .I hope the standards will pick up soon.
Unless Zim U19, play a lot of matches they cannot get any better. We need to have game time to know on which level we are on. After these dismall games, we know where we are, at the bottom. We back on the drawing board and see how we going to improve especially more Franchise funding for development of junior cricket.
