Dear Forumites(Manicaland Developement Plan)

[gargamel]

I live in Chimanimani and i am so happy you have begun this initiative. The timing is just perfect with our province is now cash rich we might even get one of the diamond or the green fuels plant and associated companies to sponsor the Mountaineers and the junior grass roots cricket . The challenge that you will face is getting infrastructure such as grounds and nets key in development. Another challenge is competing with traditional sports that have a hectic following such as soccer.

[Jemisi]

I like the idea of 100 overs in a day. That will toughen them up.

[ricket]

Dear Forumites

At the current moment I am drafting a development plan for development of Cricket in Manicaland .
This is a chance that you and I can make a positive and a significant change in the players that are going
to come through the Zimbabwe channel in 5-10 years time .
I hope you can input positive ideas that can be useful
eg structures , sponsorships , scholarships etc

The province is subdivided into seven districts, Buhera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Makoni, Mutare in the center, including the city Mutare, Mutasa and Nyanga in the northeast of the province.
The total population is estimated to be at 1.6million

Schools in Manicaland

In general, in Manicaland, there is a school within a 5 km radius. The number of both primary and secondary schools scattered across the province. Distribution of schools by district is shown in the table below.

District Primary Secondary
Buhera 140 55
Chimanimani 68 24
Chipinge 125 40
Makoni 170 60
Mutare 172 67
Mutasa 72 27
Nyanga 75 25
Total 822 298

Tertiary Institutions
Africa University
Mutare Teachers College
Marymount Teachers College
Mutare Polytechnic
Mutare Provincial Hospital Nursing School
Bonda Mission Nursing School
Chpinge College of Horticulture
Mt Selinda Nursing
Magamba Training Institute .

We have a Minister of Education that is behind Cricket , Senator Coltard at the top .
If you have more to contribute please inbox or psend a private message to me .

ideal scenario would be that you get all schools constituting a cricket team.they be playing in competition in district level at both primary and secondary level then top two schools at each district to be involved in a competition in the manicaland province.there you can identify best talents and get them to say mountaineers age group teams.sponsors be key in these tournaments .if you somehow can urge govt to make this competition necessary and with the help of some little sponsors you can achieve that .you can have lot of kids in your province playing beautiful sport.