Northerns and Westerns win through to final
Northerns and Westerns won through to the final of Zimbabwe's domestic Twenty20 competition
Cricinfo staff
18-May-2009
Northerns and Westerns won through to the final of Zimbabwe's domestic Twenty20 competition. The two teams only won three of their six matches but finished well clear of third-placed Centrals; Easterns, who only last week won the Logan Cup, finished bottom of the pile.
Westerns, who finished bottom in the Logan Cup without a win, had Mark Vermeulen to thank for their reversal of fortune. Returning after a troubled few years when it seemed he would never play at a representative level again, he was by a long margin the leading run-scorer, with 289 runs at 48.16.
He also scored one of only two hundreds - 108 in a remarkable tied game against Centrals - with the other coming from Northerns' Elton Chigumbura.
| Team | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Pts | Net RR | For | Against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northerns | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | +0.890 | 811/115.0 | 724/117.3 |
| Westerns | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | +0.393 | 908/118.4 | 871/120.0 |
| Centrals | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | -0.538 | 886/118.2 | 963/120.0 |
| Easterns | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.727 | 790/120.0 | 837/114.3 |
| Result Date | Team | Pts | Team | Pts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2009 | Westerns | 4 | Easterns | ||||
| Northerns | 5 | Easterns | 0 | Match | |||
| Centrals |