Pommie Mbangwa

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Pommie Mbangwa
Zimbabwe
Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	15	29
Runs scored	34	34
Batting average	2.00	4.85
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	8	11
Balls bowled	2596	1369
Wickets	32	11
Bowling average	31.43	103.63
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	3/23	2/24
Catches/stumpings	2/-	3/-
As of 11 February 2006 Source: Cricinfo

Mpumelelo Mbangwa (born 26 June 1976 in Plumtree) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played 15 Tests and 29 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. After finally being dropped from the international side after the 2002 Champions Trophy, he took up work as a cricket commentator for television, and he has remained in that line of work since. He is also known under his nickname Pommie.

Given a qualification of 20 innings, Mbangwa has the lowest batting average of all Test cricketers. However, as of 2006, he is one of nine Zimbabweans to have taken 30 Test wickets, and of those only Heath Streak and David Brain took them at a lower average.

[edit] References

• Pommie's new playground, by Haydn Gill, published on Cricinfo on 3 May 2006

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