Zimbabwe cricket was reduced to anarchy for 15 minutes last Sunday at Mutare Sports Club by cricketers from the Harare team Takashinga

Zimbabwe cricket was reduced to anarchy for 15 minutes last Sunday at Mutare Sports Club by cricketers from the Harare team Takashinga

Schools cricket has resumed in the province after the Christmas break

Manicaland needed a total of just 30 overs to destroy MacDonald Club of Bulawayo by ten wickets last Sunday at Alexandra Club, Harare

Last weekend both Manicaland sides had byes, allowing for a resumption of the long-delayed 30-over local-league cricket

Manicaland seconds came down to earth last Sunday with a six-wicket thrashing from Kwekwe Sports Club (Midlands) at Mutare Sports Club

The Christmas break gives an opportunity to find out what four Manicaland cricketers did overseas during last year's off-season

Manicaland's cricketers advanced closer to the top of the table with a crushing eight-wicket win over league leaders Kwekwe Sports Club at Mutare Sports Club last Sunday

Manicaland secured three easy victories in Mutare last weekend

Manicaland cricket slipped to its lowest point of the season last Sunday when they lost to a mediocre Alexandra Sports Club side by two wickets at Mutare Sports Club

Manicaland was back to winning ways in Harare last weekend with both teams registering emphatic wins

Manicaland suffered their first defeat of the season at Mutare Sports Club last Sunday when they lost to Harare Sports Club by 21 runs

Victories for both league sides last weekend have given Manicaland their best start in several years

The new-look Manicaland team travelled to Old Hararians last Sunday to open the 2001/2 national league program

Last weekend saw two closely fought 30-over local league finals at Mutare Sports Club - the Easterns Districts final and the Oliver Jordan Cup

As serious cricket has yet to get underway in Manicaland, all eyes in recent weeks have been on the dismal performances of the national side in their ODI series against South Africa and England

With Manicaland's first-league season due to start in the next few weeks, most of the young coaching professionals have returned from their U.K

In a welcome show of interest after a two-year lull, domestic cricket returned to Mutare a fortnight ago with the start of a new 30-over knockout competition

Whilst all eyes were on the action in the First Test in Harare a fortnight ago, Manicaland's own season got under way at Mutare Sports Club with the annual Casuals Junior Cricket festival

Makoni's cricketers have had mixed fortunes in recent weeks in the Lilthurbridge Cup