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Brandon Moyo
Sports Reporter
JUST a day before they meet in a crunch 2024 International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup encounter, the future stars of Zimbabwe and Australia took time off the field to conduct a coaching clinic in Kimberly, South Africa yesterday.
The Young Chevrons and Australia conducted the coaching clinic with young children at the Kimberly Oval, the venue for today’s World Cup clash.
The match is scheduled to start at 10am.
Yesterday’s initiative is part of the ICC Cricket for Good programme.
Cricket for Good was created as the ICC’s global community outreach programme aimed at leveraging the vast power, and reach of cricket, to positively impact the lives of children and families worldwide.
It will, however, be a tricky encounter for the Zimbabwean youngsters who will be hoping to bounce back to winning ways after a bad start to their campaign.
The Young Chevrons lost their opening match of the World Cup against Sri Lanka by 39 runs (D/L Method) on Sunday.
Australia beat Namibia by four wickets and are sitting second in the group behind Sri Lanka, who routed Namibia for their second win.
The Young Chevrons are in third place separated by net-run rate from Namibia.
Zimbabwe’s bowlers were outstanding in the first match with Kohl Eksteen, the skipper Matthew Schonken and Newman Nyamhuri impressing.
There will be a bit of pressure on the Young Chevrons’ batting unit to do well despite the wickets in the tournament thus far proving a nightmare for batters.
Low scores have been recorded in most of the matches.
Campbell Macmillan, Ronak Patel, Ryan Kamwemba, Panashe Taruvinga and Schonken will have to be at the top of their game to give Zimbabwe a chance.
Australia Under-19 have won four of their five meetings against Zimbabwe.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter