Bulawayo Athletic Club
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Bulawayo Athletic Club is a cricket
club that competes in Zimbabwe
's National League competition. It is also the name given to the club's ground. It can hold over 12,000 spectators.
The ground has hosted a single Test match
against New Zealand
in November 1992. It was thus the second venue in Zimbabwe to host a Test match. A One Day International was played there just prior to the Test.
The Test match was hit by poor weather, poor attendances and a poor wicket
. Along with these factors, the local cricket administrators believed that nearby Queens Sports Club
had better potential as an international venue. Therefore, when Test cricket was next played in Bulawayo
, it was at that venue instead.
The ground was affected by fire, causing damages of up to USD$400,000, in mid 2007.
According to brmtaylor.com, its 2007-08 squad is as follows:
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
club that competes in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
's National League competition. It is also the name given to the club's ground. It can hold over 12,000 spectators.
The ground has hosted a single Test match
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
against New Zealand
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
in November 1992. It was thus the second venue in Zimbabwe to host a Test match. A One Day International was played there just prior to the Test.
The Test match was hit by poor weather, poor attendances and a poor wicket
Wicket
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...
. Along with these factors, the local cricket administrators believed that nearby Queens Sports Club
Queens Sports Club
Queens Sports Club is a multi-purpose stadium in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It is used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium holds 13,000. The club is one of two homegrounds for the Matabeleland Cricket Team, which up until recently was captained by the Zimbabwean international opening pace bowler...
had better potential as an international venue. Therefore, when Test cricket was next played in Bulawayo
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
, it was at that venue instead.
The ground was affected by fire, causing damages of up to USD$400,000, in mid 2007.
According to brmtaylor.com, its 2007-08 squad is as follows:
Bulawayo Athletic Club -
Matthew Williams, Tawanda Mupariwa, Tafadzwa Ngulube, John Nyumbu, Freedom Takarusenga, Tinashe Hove, Bonaparte Mujuru, Tafadzwa Madhiri, Mbekezeli Mabuza, Brian Mukondiwa