Administrator(s) | Zimbabwe Cricket |
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Cricket format | Twenty20 |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knockout |
Champions | Mashonaland Eagles (1st title) |
Participants | 5 |
Matches played | 14 |
Player of the series | Ryan Butterworth (Mashonaland Eagles) |
Most runs | 233 – Nick Compton (Mashonaland Eagles) |
Most wickets | 33 – Graeme Cremer (Mid West Rhinos) 33 – Chamu Chibhabha (Southern Rocks) |
The 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was a Twenty20 cricket competition held in Zimbabwe from 13 – 21 November 2010. [1] It was won by the Mashonaland Eagles, who defeated the Mid West Rhinos in the final by one run. [2]
Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. At the professional level, it was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition in England and Wales. In a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three current forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being at the highest international or domestic level. A typical Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 90 minutes and an official 10 minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previously-existing forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television.
Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.
The Mashonaland Eagles is one of five cricket Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are based in the Harare Metropolitan and Mashonaland Central area and play both first-class and limited overs cricket. They play their home matches at Harare Sports Club in Harare.
The Eagles finished the group stage of the competition as the top team, losing only one match of the four-match round-robin. [3] They then edged past the Tuskers in the first semi-final, winning a low-scoring match with their final pair of batsmen, passing their opponent's total of 70 with just nine balls remaining. [4] They met the Rhinos in the final, where thanks to 74 runs from Nick Compton, a late unbeaten 39 runs off 17 balls from Andrew Hall, and economical bowling from Ray Price, they won by just one run. [2] Compton finished the competition as the leading run-scorer, amassing 233 runs from his six matches, at an average of 38.83. [5] Graeme Cremer and Chamu Chibhabha of the Southern Rocks and Mashonaland Eagles respectively claimed the most wickets, taking 11 each. [6]
A round-robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants are eliminated after a certain number of losses.
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The competition also saw the return of Brian Lara to professional cricket after a two-year absence. [7] Lara was described by international contemporary Kumar Sangakkara as "one of the greatest batsmen the world has seen", [8] shortly after the West Indian's retirement from cricket. However, in early 2010 he had negotiations with Surrey to play Twenty20 cricket for them in the 2010 Friends Provident t20. When the talks fell through, Lara insisted that he still wanted to return to play Twenty20 cricket, a format which he hadn't played during his career. [9] On 5 November, it was announced that he would join the Southern Rocks to play in the Stanbic Bank 20 Series. [10] On his debut for the Rocks, and his first-ever Twenty20 match, [7] he scored a half-century, top-scoring for the Rocks with 65. [11] He added 34 runs in his next two innings, but then left the competition, citing "commitments elsewhere". [12]
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Team | Pld | W | L | T | N/R | Pts | Net R/R |
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Mashonaland Eagles | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.739 |
Mid West Rhinos | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −0.287 |
Southern Rocks | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.313 |
Matabeleland Tuskers | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −0.243 |
Mountaineers | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.563 |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||
20 November – Harare | |||||||
Matabeleland Tuskers | 70 (19.2 ov) | ||||||
Mashonaland Eagles | 74/9 (18.3 ov) | ||||||
21 November – Harare | |||||||
Mashonaland Eagles | 167/7 (20 ov) | ||||||
Mid West Rhinos | 166/6 (20 ov) | ||||||
Third place | |||||||
20 November – Harare | 21 November – Harare | ||||||
Southern Rocks | 151/8 (20 ov) | Southern Rocks | 154/8 (20 ov) | ||||
Mid West Rhinos | 152/2 (18.3 ov) | Matabeleland Tuskers | 158/1 (18.2 ov) |
20 November Scorecard |
Matabeleland Tuskers 70 (19.2 overs) | v | Mashonaland Eagles 74/9 (18.3 overs) |
20 November Scorecard |
Southern Rocks 151/8 (20 overs) | v | Mid West Rhinos 152/2 (18.3 overs) |
20 November Scorecard |
Southern Rocks 154/8 (20 overs) | v | Matabeleland Tuskers 158/1 (18.2 overs) |
20 November Scorecard |
Mashonaland Eagles 167/7 (20 overs) | v | Mid West Rhinos 166/6 (20 overs) |
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