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The Harare South Country Club is a country club to the south of
Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
. Its facilities include a
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course and a
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ground. The cricket ground has played host to first-class and List A one-day matches. It first hosted first-class cricket in 1987, when Zimbabwe B played Pakistan B. Following Zimbabwe's elevation to
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in 1992, matches in the Logan Cup gained first-class status, with both Mashonaland Country Districts and
Mashonaland Mashonaland is a region in northern Zimbabwe. Currently, Mashonaland is divided into four provinces, * Mashonaland West * Mashonaland Central * Mashonaland East * Harare The Zimbabwean capital of Harare, a province unto itself, lies entirely ...
using the ground for home matches; the ground also played host to List A matches for both Mashonaland Country Districts and Zimbabwe Country Districts, in addition to hosting three matches in the 2000 ICC Emerging Nations Tournament. First-class cricket has not been played there since 1997 and List A cricket has not been played there since 2001.


Records


First-class

*Highest team total: 600 for 6
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v Mashonaland Country Districts, 1994–95 * Lowest team total: 123 all out by Mashonaland Country Districts v
Matabeleland Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi r ...
, 1994–95 *Highest individual innings: 202 by Aravinda de Silva for Sri Lankans v Mashonaland Country Districts, 1994–95 *Best bowling in an innings: 7-75 by Paul Strang for Mashonaland Country Districts v Mashonaland Under-24s, 1994–95 *Best bowling in a match: 9-141 by
Bryan Strang Bryan Colin Strang (born 9 June 1972) is a former Zimbabwe national cricket team, Zimbabwean international cricketer who played in 26 Test cricket, Test matches and 49 One Day Internationals between 1995 and 2001. His older brother Paul Strang ...
for Mashonaland Country Districts v
Mashonaland Mashonaland is a region in northern Zimbabwe. Currently, Mashonaland is divided into four provinces, * Mashonaland West * Mashonaland Central * Mashonaland East * Harare The Zimbabwean capital of Harare, a province unto itself, lies entirely ...
, 1995–96


List A

*Highest team total: 354 for 6 by
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v Zimbabwe Country Districts, 1995–96 *Lowest team total: 167 all out by
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, 1999–00 *Highest individual innings: 235 by
Brian McMillan Brian Mervin McMillan (born 22 December 1963) played 38 Test matches and 78 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1991 to 1998. He was rated by many as the best all-rounder in the world in the mid-1990s, and won South African Cricket ...
for South Africa v Zimbabwe Country Districts, 1995–96 *Best bowling in an innings: 5-26 by Dick Kramer for Netherlands v Denmark, 1999–00


See also

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List of cricket grounds in Zimbabwe This is a list of cricket grounds in Zimbabwe. The grounds included in this list have held first-class, List-A and Twenty20 matches. Additionally, some of the first-class and List-A matches have come in the form of Test matches and One Day Int ...


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