Wisden overview
A gangling paceman and a genuine swinger of the ball, Brighton Watambwa was introduced to cricket by his primary-school headmaster Iain Campbell, father of team-mate Alistair. Like so many other Zimbabwean Test cricketers, Watambwa went on to attend Harare's Falcon College, before fine-tuning his technique at Dennis Lillee's MRF Pace Foundation in Madras. Watambwa made a promising start to his Test career - in four successive matches against Bangladesh and India he took 13 wickets at 27 each - but his spindly legs couldn't take the strain, and in the last of those games, the series-levelling victory over India at Harare, he tore his hamstring. Knee and muscle injuries kept him out of cricket for a while, but in February 2002 he was recalled to the squad to face India. Andrew Miller

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