like i told you guys before about ervine

[kingviv]

the guy is not going to the world cup tino mawoyo will be going,i don't have the link YET but ervine decided awhile back that he was going to stay with hampshire all along mr campbell was trying to lure him back thats why they had named him in the squad before the deadline..

[shumbat]

onthe Hampshire website it has been confirmed that he is leaving, to pursue his international career with Zim.

[CrimsonAvenger]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadi ... Id=5764336

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Allrounder Sean Ervine pulled out of Zimbabwe's squad for personal reasons on Wednesday, dealing the team's World Cup hopes a major blow.

Ervine quit English County side Hampshire two weeks ago to play for Zimbabwe for the first time in seven years, but he intended to return to Britain. His younger brother Craig remained in the World Cup squad.

Sean Ervine was replaced by Tinotenda Mawoyo, an opening batsman and wicketkeeper who received two one-day international caps against Bangladesh in 2006.

Zimbabwe head selector Alistair Campbell said he was saddened by Ervine's withdrawal.

"Zimbabwe Cricket was very excited about Sean coming back into the setup. However, he may not have realized that international cricket is a lot harder than he remembers," Campbell said in a statement.

"He has lived a very comfortable life in county cricket for the last six years and obviously decided at the last minute he might not be up to the challenges of international cricket after all."

The 28-year-old Ervine played five tests and 42 one-dayers from 2001-04, until he was involved in a players' dispute with national cricket administrators and left the country.

Mawoyo, 25, captained Zimbabwe Under-19s at the 2003 Youth World Cup in Bangladesh, and was stripped of the Zimbabwe A captaincy for disciplinary reasons in 2007.

He has been enjoying good first-class form of late, and was named as a non-travelling reserve for the World Cup.

Zimbabwe opens against defending champion Australia on Feb. 21 at Ahmedabad, and was in Group A beside New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada and Kenya.

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Zimbabwe: Elton Chigumbura (captain), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Greg Lamb, Shingi Masakadza, Tinotenda Mawoyo, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price, Ed Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya, Sean Williams.

[brmtaylor.com admin]

That's a massive blow.

Besides Mawoyo, I think there's one person who might not be too disappointed with this news - Greg Lamb. All of a sudden a spot in the middle order has opened up for someone who can also bowl a few overs, and he's that man.

[jimbo]

What a blow
My side now is

1. taylor
2. Coventry
3. Williams
4. Taibu
5. Craig Ervine
6. Greg lamb
7. E Chigumbura
8. utseya
9. Cremer
10. Price
11. Mpofu

Should Coventry fail we have a ready made opener in mawayo to open with taylor

[Conant]

What a cunt

[jimbo]

What a cunt

I woudnt have put it in those terms but yes just what I was thinking

[kingviv]

yep he is one i said before we didn't need him what have we got from him now...it sounds like campbell is dissapointed aswell,waste of time that n not good for the squad

[maehara]

What a cunt

I woudnt have put it in those terms but yes just what I was thinking

Under the circumstances, I'll allow that. I did say about believing nothing until he was on the field in a Zim shirt...

I've had a press release from ZC confirming this, by the way...
http://sandbox.zimcricketnews.com/node/2536

[danny]

very very painful to heat