Sibanda back in national team

Senior Sports Reporter
TOP order batsman Vusumuzi Sibanda is back in the senior national cricket team after being included in the tour to Bangladesh.  Sibanda leaves the country for Bangladesh tomorrow where Zimbabwe is scheduled to play the Tigers in four Twenty20 Internationals starting Friday. The 32-year-old has not played an international match for Zimbabwe since the second One Day against India at Harare Sports Club in July 2015. From there, selectors dropped him with another seasoned batsman Hamilton Masakadza for fresh talent.
However, the Zimbabwe batsmen struggled in the 3-2 defeat to Afghanistan in a five-match ODI series which concluded in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates last Wednesday. Also leaving for Bangladesh are all rounder Sean Williams and left arm seamer Brian Vitori.
Williams was dropped from the team which made the trip to UAE due to bursitis in the groin while Vitori last played an international match in July last year against India in the second ODI staged at Harare Sports Club.
Zimbabwe Cricket media and communications manager Lovemore Banda last Friday revealed that from the 15 players who made the trip to UAE, two were finding their way home when the team heads to Bangladesh. These are pace bowler Tinashe Panyangara, who has been sidelined by back injury, and top order batsman Craig Ervine, down with a respiratory ailment.
Zimbabwe are playing the four T20Is against Bangladesh as their fine tune for the International Cricket Council World Twenty20 set for India from 8 March through to 3 April. At the tournament, Zimbabwe have to first play in the qualifier against Scotland, Afghanistan and Hong Kong in order to book their place in second round of the competition.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe A are set to head off to India on Thursday where they are due to meet Afghanistan A in two four day games and three 50 over matches.