LOGAN CUP: Mountaineers thrash Tuskers, Rocks-Rhinos match ends in draw

Mountaineers – 187 and 320 all out in 93.4 overs (Dion Myers 156, Donald Tiripano 51, Spencer Magodo 30; Mamoon Riaz 4/93, Tinotenda Maposa 2/41, Ernest Masuku 2/45)

Tuskers – 210 and 121-9 in 42 overs (Tanu Makoni 41, Aliakbar Hamid 38, Brian Chari 10; Salman Mirza 3/46, Tendai Chatara 2/22, Brian Bennett 1/5)

Mountaineers gained by 176 runs

It took precisely two overs for Mountaineers to assert a 176-run victory over Tuskers of their Logan Cup match at Harare Sports activities Membership on Saturday morning.

Tuskers, who wanted to attain 298 to win, had been 115 for seven wickets in a single day.

Within the first over on the fourth and last day, Ernest Masuku hit a 4, however Salman Mirza trapped him leg earlier than for that rating along with his last supply.

Within the second over, Hamid Ali scored two off Tendai Chatara, earlier than he too was out the identical approach to the ultimate supply.

Awad Naqvi, injured within the first innings, was declared unfit to bat, and so the match ended at this level, with Tuskers all out for 121.

Mirza was probably the most profitable bowler with three wickets for 46 runs.

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Southern Rocks – 458 and 324-4 declared in 69.5 overs (Johnathan Campbell 139, Roy Kaia 80*, Eddie Byrom 43; Muhammad Adil 3/93, Mike Chinouya 1/36)

Rhinos – 448 and 160-6 in 52.1 overs (Prince Masvaure 67*, Nyasha Mayavo 41, Antum Naqvi 30; Jalat Khan 4/66, Eddie Byrom 1/0, Roy Kaia 1/19)

Match drawn

A combating innings of 67 not out by Prince Masvaure saved Rhinos from doable defeat to Southern Rocks within the Logan Cup match at Previous Hararians Sports activities Membership on Saturday.

Rocks started the ultimate day on 166 for 2 wickets, a lead of 176, with Johnathan Campbell on 63 and Richmond Mutumbami on 30.

They wished to make runs shortly for a declaration in superb batting situations, within the hope of bowling out Rhinos of their second innings.

Mutumbami was quickly out for 35, however Roy Kaia returned to the crease after retiring harm on Friday. He and Campbell received after the bowlers in a fourth-wicket partnership that added 145 to the rating.

Campbell achieved the uncommon feat of scoring two centuries in a first-class match.

He was not dismissed till he had scored 139, off 176 balls with two sixes and 12 fours

Campbell due to this fact scored a complete of 333 runs within the match. Solely Andy Flower, in a Check match towards South Africa, and Sean Ervine have ever exceeded that determine for any Zimbabwean group in a first-class match.

Harmless Kaia, the Rocks captain, declared the innings closed on his dismissal, setting Rhinos 335 to win.

A tremendous opening spell of bowling by Jalat Khan raised Rocks’ hopes of forcing a shock victory – he eliminated Ben Curran, Shiny Matsiwe and Remembrance Nyathi for simply two runs amongst them.

Masvaure nonetheless got here to the rescue with a decided innings, helped for some time by Nyasha Mayavo who hit up 41 off 41 balls.

Antum Naqvi, who retired harm for some time, scored 30, whereas Victor Chirwa performed a noble defensive innings, seeing off 33 balls for 9 runs.

Play went on till effectively after six o’clock, however the pair remained immovable, with Masvaure nonetheless there on the shut with 59, together with 11 fours. He confronted 157 balls and batted for 4 hours and 19 minutes.

Khan, the person who precipitated the scare within the first place, completed with 4 wickets for 66 runs.

2023/24 LOGAN CUP POINTS TABLE

How factors are awarded:

• Win – 10 factors

• Tie – 6 factors

• Draw/washout – 5 factors

• Win by an innings – 2 factors

Bowling Factors:

• 3 wickets – 1 level

• 5 wickets – 1 level

• 7 wickets – 1 level

• 9 wickets – 1 level

(Complete bowling factors permitted – 4)

Batting factors:

• 200 group runs – 1 level

• 250 group runs – 1 level

• 300 group runs – 1 level

• 350 group runs – 1 level

(Complete batting factors permitted – 4)