adminTHE Zimbabwe Development squad started the second week of preparations yesterday for the forthcoming home series against Sri Lanka Development.
Douglas Hondo is coaching the side assisted by MidWest Rhinos coach Adam Chifo, with two members of the senior men’s national squad support staff — fitness trainer Sean Bell and physiotherapist Anesu Mupotaringa — also working with them.
Zimbabwe wicket-keeper Peter Joseph Moor will captain the side that includes senior players such as top-order batsman Brian Chari, all-rounder Luke Jongwe and bowlers Neville Madziva and Wellington Masakadza.
As befitting a development side, there are players such as Stephen Chimhamhiwa, Dylan Hondo, Tinashe Kamunhukamwe, Charles Kunje, Nyasha Mayavo, Carl Mumba and Mkhululi Nyathi who have shown their potential at provincial level in either the first class or limited overs formats, whom the national selectors now want to see performing at the next level.
They are benefiting from being in camp not just with the senior players, but also those on the fringe of senior national representation such as Joylord Gumbie, Kevin Kasuza, Tarisai Musakanda, Victor Nyauchi, Kudzai Sauramba and Nathan Waller.
The Zimbabwe Development side will play a four-day match against Sri Lanka Development at Harare Sports Club starting on Sunday and then three one-day matches on the 3rd, 5th and 7th of September.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe Cricket board member Charles Godfrey Maunze has died.
He was 70.
The veteran educationist and cricket administrator died on Sunday upon arrival at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare where his family had taken him for an X-ray.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren.
A former president of the respected National Association of Secondary School Heads (NASH), Maunze first served as a member of ZC’s interim board in 2006 before he was elected to the substantive ZC board in 2007.
Since then he served on the board until his retirement on health grounds in 2013.
Mourners are gathered at the Maunze family home at 14 Gelcon Avenue, Greendale, Harare.
Funeral arrangements will be announced in due course.
Zimbabwe Development Squad
George Banda, Brian Chari, Herbert Chikomba, Stephen Chimhamhiwa, Gary Chirimuuta, Joylord Gumbie, Dylan Hondo, Luke Jongwe, Tinashe Kamunhukamwe, Kevin Kasuza, Charles Kunje, Neville Madziva, Tendai Maruma, W, Carl Mumba, Tarisai Musakanda, Peter Joseph Moor (Captain), Mkhululi Nyathi, Victor Nyauchi, Kudzai Sauramba, Nathan Waller. — zimcricket.
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