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Zimbabwe Lady Chevrons will this weekend resume their preparations for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Africa 2023 as they host South African emerging side in six T20 matches starting this Sunday.
The six matches, which are scheduled and equally spread between Harare Sports Club and Takashinga, will act as the final preparations for the national side in their quest to secure two spots at ICC T20 global qualifiers scheduled for next year.
The series comes barely a fortnight after the Lady Chevrons returned form a three-week training camp in India.
The matches will see the Lady Chevrons playing the South Africa Emerging side at Harare Sports Club on November 19, 20 and 22 before shifting to Takashinga Sports Club for the remaining fixtures scheduled for November 24, 26 and 27. Lady Chevrons coach, Gary Brent revealed that the five-match series against South Africa Emerging side will present an opportunity for his technical team to work on the tactical side of the team. “We are now moving away from the technical stuff and we are now working on combinations on where people can bat bowl and field and its I more on the tactical side as opposed to the technical side.
“We are looking forward to the series and see where we can fine tune ahead of the qualifiers,” said Brent.
Brent added that the series has come at the right time after his charges had used the three-week training camp in India to work on how to approach spin bowlers.
“We have returned from India where we held a training and it really went well.
“The camp was meant for development and certainly did that as the girls have developed their way of playing spin and it was a huge success on that front.
“We have prepared well and now we go into the South Africa Emerging side series which gives us more preparation time on the e much needed game time,” said the Lady Chevrons.
He remains optimistic of his side securing one of the two spots of the global qualifiers.
“Looking at the qualifiers we are just looking forward to executing our game plan and we have quite a good solid game plan that we have used for a couple of years now and will fine tune for the qualifiers and we remain confident of qualifying,” said Brent.
Online Reporter