Streak to captain Zimbabwe in 2002-2003 season

All-rounder Heath Streak will captain the Zimbabwe cricket team during the 2002-2003 season.

It is the second stint as skipper for the 28-year old.

No deputy for Streak has been announced, with the Zimbabwe Cricket Union expressing confidence that he will be ably supported by several senior players in the squad and the experienced coaching duo of Geoff Marsh and Kevin Curran.

The first tournament for the new captain, rated the fourth-best bowler in the world seven years ago, is the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka next month.

The other 13-members of the squad for the biennial tournament are: Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Dion Ebrahim, Andy and Grant Flower, Travis Friend, Douglas Hondo, Stuart Irvine, Douglas Marillier, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Henry Olonga, Tatenda Taibu and Guy Whittall.

Babu Meman is the team manager, Amato Machikicho physiotherapist and Malcolm Jarvis fitness trainer.

Zimbabwe will join the other nine Test-playing nations plus Kenya and Holland in the tournament, which runs from the 12th to the 30th of next month.

Previously a knockout event involving eleven teams, the tournament will now have four pools of three teams each.

Each side will play two pool games, followed by semi-finals betweens the pool winners.