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Place of Birth: Plumtree, Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
About Pommie Mbangwa
- Mpumelelo "Pommie" Mbangwa (born 26 June 1976) is a Zimbabwean cricket commentator and former cricketer.
- A right-arm fast bowler, he played 15 Test matches and 29 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe between 1996 and 2002.
- After 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. His nickname "Pommie" arises from his pseudo-accent that he claims to have picked up during his brief studies in England.
- However, his formative school years were undertaken in Zimbabwe, a fact that his intonation and pronunciation of certain words and phrases betray. Given a qualification of twenty innings, Mbangwa has the lowest batting average (2.00) of all Test cricketers.
- However, as of 2008, 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. Mbangwa's rise to prominence was all the more remarkable as he had no family background in cricket.
- A little short of the top pace, he was primarily a line-and-length bowler, using both seam and swing, with the away-swinger his stock ball.
- He spent a year at school in England, and in 1996 he went to Madras for coaching by Dennis Lillee; on his return he was offered a place in the Plascon Academy in South Africa, which he attended from April to September 1996.
- A surprise choice for the Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan in 1996-97, he made his Test debut after the first choice bowlers were injured but made the most of his opportunity, taking the vital wickets of Ijaz Ahmed and Wasim Akram.
- But thereafter he struggled to maintain consistency, and his lack of pace meant that he was easy picking for international batsmen.
- He drifted in and out of the side, before disappearing from the international scene.
- In 2001 he started television commentary, where his quiet thoughtful views were well received, and in 2005 he ended a brief foray into coaching by committing full-time to his TV career.
- He was one of international cricket's genuine No.
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