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cricket_22001
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LC partnerships

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Whilst compiling the appearances list, I realised the highest partnerships for each wicket in LC was missing.
And if my research is correct, we had a milestone passed with a new 7th wicket partnership being recorded when Southern Rocks played the Tuskers this current season. So the partnerships are:

1st- 314 Ferreira/Sims Midlands v Mountaineers 02/03
2nd- 342 P Horton/ Ewing Matebeleland Tuskers v Southern Rocks 10/11
3rd - 352 M Pettini/Mutombodzi Mashonaland Eagles v MWR 14/15
4th- 330 Viljoen/Evans Mashonaland v Matebeleland 99/00
5th- 287x D. Housego/Mutizwa Mountaineers v Southern Rocks 13/14
6th- 224 Mupamba/Tiripano Mountaineers v MWR 17/18
7th- 204 Mutumbami/ R. Kaia Southern Rocks v Matebeleland Tuskers 21/22
8th- 237 Blignaut/Hondo Mashonaland v Manicaland 03/04
9th- 141 S Masakadza/Utseya Mountaineers v southern Rocks 09/10
10th- 201 Jongwe/Musoko Southern Rocks v Mountaineers 13/14

I'm pretty sure these are the records. Please amend or update if you know of any mistakes. When researching this stuff, one finds name changes to teams exist & therefore, a whole new entity is created. It can get confusing.
For example, Matebeleland played from 93/94 till 05/06.
Then it was Westerns from 06/07 to 08/09
Then franchise cricket came & Matebeleland Tuskers was formed from 09/10-15/16
Then is was Bulawayo Metropolitan Tuskers from 16/17 to 17/18.
And finally Tuskers from 18/19-21/22.
So a bloke like Dabengwa played for Matebeleland, Westerns, Matebeleland Tuskers & Bulawayo Metropolitan Tuskers & probably never changed his residential address. This exists for all teams except the Southern Rocks who have always been known as such.
So, rightly or wrongly, my records are the original province name from 93/94-05/06. "Compass" names pre franchise cricket from 06/07-08/09. Then the franchise names.
I do have to research the early records when teams such as Mashonaland A & Mashonaland Country Districts existed.
But I'll leave you with this for now.

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Remember most of these partnerships, and some we have followed here on the forums through match thread. That 8th wicket partnership though, looks interesting. Could you please share the details and breakup of who scored how much in that one? Must have been a massacre worth watching live :)

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Here's the first innings of that match.Mashonaland on the ropes till that partnership.
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Manicaland v Mashonaland

Logan Cup 2003/04
Venue Mutare Sports Club, Mutare on 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th September 2003 (4-day match)
Balls per over 6
Toss Mashonaland won the toss and decided to field
Result Match drawn
Points Manicaland 13 (Batting 4, Bowling 3); Mashonaland 13 (Batting 4, Bowling 3)
Umpires KC Barbour, D Maphosa
Close of play day 1 Manicaland (1) 333/6 (Gripper 160*, Rinke 11*; 98 overs)
Close of play day 2 Mashonaland (1) 186/5 (Evans 50*, Blignaut 54*; 51 overs)
Close of play day 3 Manicaland (2) 113/3 (Matsikenyeri 10*, Rogers 9*; 38 overs)
Manicaland first innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
*+NR Ferreira c Taibu b Mwayenga 8 47 64 - -
TR Gripper c Ebrahim b Taylor 234 371 492 37 -
RW Sims c Evans b Hondo 23 43 65 3 -
S Matsikenyeri c Taibu b Flower 27 44 62 3 1
BG Rogers c Taibu b Flower 25 66 58 5 -
KJ Taibu lbw b Flower 0 3 2 - -
GB Brent b Blignaut 36 81 96 6 -
HP Rinke b Taylor 27 76 108 6 -
IM Chinyoka lbw b Ruswa 45 109 112 5 -
P Utseya lbw b Butterworth 27 44 43 4 -
NB Mahwire not out 19 27 30 4 -
Extras (4 b, 3 lb, 37 nb, 8 w) 52
Total (all out, 146.5 overs) 523
Fall of wickets:
1-36 (Ferreira), 2-101 (Sims), 3-154 (Matsikenyeri), 4-207 (Rogers), 5-207 (Taibu), 6-289 (Brent), 7-397 (Rinke), 8-446 (Gripper), 9-489 (Utseya), 10-523 (Chinyoka)
Mashonaland bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Blignaut 19 1 97 1 1 25
Hondo 27 7 89 1 1 2
Mwayenga 18 4 51 1 - 6
Butterworth 5 0 28 1 2 -
Ruswa 20.5 1 109 1 2 4
Flower 28 5 61 3 - -
Evans 1.3 0 2 0 2 -
Carlisle 13.3 2 43 0 - -
Taylor 14 1 36 2 - -
Mashonaland first innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
BRM Taylor c Gripper b Brent 11 30 31 2 -
RE Butterworth b Brent 4 7 12 1 -
SV Carlisle c Gripper b Rinke 41 65 78 6 -
*+T Taibu c Rinke b Chinyoka 12 36 55 2 -
CN Evans run out (Matsikenyeri) 50 88 122 10 -
DD Ebrahim b Chinyoka 0 3 9 - -
AM Blignaut c Sims b Gripper 194 282 317 36 2
TP Ruswa c Sims b Mahwire 10 7 9 1 -
DT Hondo not out 85 121 217 15 -
W Mwayenga c Sims b Matsikenyeri 5 11 10 1 -
GW Flower absent
Extras (12 b, 12 lb, 7 nb, 5 w) 36
Total (all out, 108.4 overs) 448
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Butterworth), 2-26 (Taylor), 3-70 (Taibu), 4-78 (Carlisle), 5-83 (Ebrahim), 6-190 (Evans), 7-202 (Ruswa), 8-439 (Blignaut), 9-448 (Mwayenga)
Manicaland bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Mahwire 24 3 111 1 - -
Brent 26 4 111 2 - -
Rinke 14 2 49 1 - -
Chinyoka 8 1 42 2 - -
Gripper 21 7 43 1 - -
Utseya 3 0 10 0 - -
Sims 8 1 28 0 - -
Matsikenyeri 4.4 1 30 1 - -

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Thanks for that scorecard.

Pretty remarkable innings by Gripper as well, ended by BT's very occasional off-spin.

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^ Haha wow, very rare. He did bowl a bit back in the day! I can't remember him turning his arm over for at least the last decade or so though.

Props to anyone who remembers him taking 3/54 in this game; https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/zim ... -scorecard

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Thanks for that scorecard, cricket_22001!

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