Officials outlined the programme in Epworth, Harare, where the organization donated equipment to Domboramwari Secondary School and Zinyengere Primary School last Thursday. The schools have subsequently introduced cricket as part of their traditional sporting calendars.
ZC training manager, Levy Hombarume, said he was confident the schools would produce same calibre of players that are representing the country at the ongoing International Cricket Council World Cup in Asia.
It has always been ZCs policy to spread the game to all parts of Zimbabwe. Epworth is unexplored territory and I hope that it, like Highfields, it will produce a good crop of cricketers just like Tatenda Taibu and Elton Chigumbura who are now representing the country in the current ICC Cricket World Cup. Zimbabwe is building up the blocks at all levels to increase our player base, nothing can stop Epworth from producing world class players and their stories will be spoken off globally just as Chigumbura and Taibus have been told, he said in an interview in Harare.
He said the equipment donated to both schools was sufficient for at least two years of cricket. In a bid to capitalize on the initial interest in promoting cricket in Epworth, ZCs coaching programmes, which have been running for over a decade, will ensure that teachers have the adequate information and skills to spread cricket at grass roots level, he added.
ZC has various training and coaching programs running at different levels with the ultimate goal of feeding into the countries player base and pool of professionals involved in the sports. Cricket is fast growing in Zimbabwe, which has coincided with plans by the cricket association to return the team to Test cricket, following the resignation of senior players owing to differences with the countrys cricket mother body. A high number these have returned in playing and coaching capacity much to the improvement of the game.
Post published in: Zimbabwe Sports News