The Kwekwe first team had a home game against Old Georgians on Sunday 4 November.

The visitors batted first and scored 274 for six in their allotted 50 overs. Gus MacKay was the highest scorer with 57 runs, followed by Lance Malloch-Brown with 48 runs. Best of the six Kwekwe bowlers who were used was Dave Houghton who took two for 30 in six overs, John Vaughan-Davies 2/49 and Pete Albasini 2/50 in their allotted 10 overs.

Kwekwe then batted after lunch and were all out for 243 runs in their allotted 50 overs. Best bat for Kwekwe was John Vaughan-Davies with a score of 60 runs. Best bowlers for Old Georgians were Gus Mackay who took five for 27 and S Seager who took three for 40 in their allotted 10 overs.

Two old stalwarts of Kwekwe cricket, namely Ken Connelly and Pete Albasini, were taken out of retirement for this game due to the loss of our younger national players.

As you can see by the scores, it was a very close game that could have gone either way and as news of the close finish spread throughout Kwekwe quite a crowd of faithful supporters gathered at the Sports Club who cheered every run that was scored and also every boundary that was hit. Old Georgians came out on top of this close encounter winners by 31 runs.

The cricketers here in Kwekwe are very glad and grateful to have a coach like Dave Houghton who is willing to come and coach the team every Friday that we have a home game. These coaching sessions are well attended and they also include a rigorous fielding practice that is compulsory for all the players in the first and second teams on a Saturday afternoon.

The Kwekwe second team travelled to Bulawayo to play against Queens second team.

Kwekwe batted first and was all out for 309. The best batsman for Kwekwe was J. Friend with 49 runs, followed by T. Savoury with 44 runs. Best bowler for Queens was M. Strydom who took three for 55 in his allotted ten overs.

Queens then batted after lunch and were 137 all out in 31 overs. Best bat for Queens was Compram with a score of 44 runs and best bowler for Kwekwe was M. Pretorius with 4/31 in nine overs. Kwekwe won by 172 runs.

Kwekwe Queens had a home game and unfortunately lost. Details of the scorecard were not available at the time of writing. Once again I have nothing to report from Gweru.

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