Mukuhlani remains Mashonaland chairman

The troubled Mashonaland Cricket Association held a lively annual general meeting on Friday evening, which finally ended after a gruelling five hours.

Tavengwa Mukuhlani, a member of the Zimbabwe cricket board, sailed through as chairman under a constitutional provision which allowed him to continue for a second year at the helm of Zimbabwe's biggest cricket stakeholder.

The meeting was held without the complete audited financial report, which raised emotional opposition from some administrators. Mukuhlani explained that the auditors would release the full audited accounts soon, attributing the delay to the squabbles which threatened to paralyse cricket operations in the province until his board was retained by the same clubs who had previously passed a vote of no confidence in them.

Peter Chingoka, the Zimbabwe Cricket chairman, was present but remained was quite throughout, while sacked national team coach Phil Simmons left midway through the meeting.