adminMatabeleland Tuskers to restrict hosts Southern Rocks to 148 runs on the first day of their Logan Cup match at Masvingo Sports Club yesterday.
Querl was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 6-38 from 17.5 overs, which included 10 maidens.
In response Tuskers were 111/3 at stumps and were trailing by 37 runs with seven wickets in hand.
Opener Terrence Duffin (62) made a good start in the chase and Tuskers, who lost three wickets, are set to resume their innings with Craig Ervine (11) and Adam Wheater (3) at the crease. But Tuskers will owe it to their bowlers, Querl and Keegan Meth, who took three wickets from 17 overs.
Tuskers had a disciplined performance with the ball after winning the toss and sending the hosts in to bat first.
Querl struck early when he removed Erick Chauluka (14) with 27 runs on the board.
Querl, who was a member of the Under-19 squad for 2005 Afro-Asia Cup and the 2006 Youth World Cup, was playing his maiden first class match in the domestic league.
The home team never got going as they lost regular wickets to leave captain and top scorer Alester Maregwede, who had got in at number six, stranded on 50 runs after 51.5 overs.
Querl, who finished with 2/46 in the one wicket defeat to the same opponents in a Coca-Cola Pro50 match at the weekend, had an impressive start to his first class career in the domestic league. The 23-year old had been playing List A matches for the Unicorns in England before coming to Tuskers.
Querl played for Harrow in early July 2006, but by the end of that month he had found a place in the Essex second XI, with whom he spent the 2007 season.
He played for Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire the next season, and although there were questions about his bowling action at the time, he was subsequently cleared and he secured his MCC place in 2009.
In 2010 Querl represented the Unicorns, a team of non-contracted cricketers which played in the CB40 league, with moderate success and in June he was part of the MCC side – captained by Sourav Ganguly and
including Brian Lara – that played a Twenty20 game against the touring Pakistan team at Lord’s.
In Kwekwe, Solomon Mire (94) came short of a first class century but another half-century from Gary Ballance (83) lifted MidWest Rhinos to 286/9 at stumps.
Eagles bowlers Lazarus Manatsa and Tino Mutombodzi shared seven wickets between them while Innocent Chinyoka and Sikander Raza finished the day with one each.
Manatsa took 4/24 and Mutombodzi had 3/64 from 21 overs, including the most prized scalps of Ballance and Mire.
Online Reporter