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| Full name | Mpumelelo Mbangwa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 June 1976 (age 44) Plumtree, Rhodesia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Pommie, Vuvuzela | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 33) | 24 October 1996 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 19 September 2000 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 48) | 1 November 1996 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 18 September 2002 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1996–2004 | Matabeleland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[citation needed]Given a qualification of twenty innings, Mbangwa has the lowest batting average (2.00) of all Test cricketers.[1] 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. 11s.
References[edit]
- ^Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. p. 87. ISBN978-1-84607-880-4.
Sources[edit]
- Pommie's new playground, by Haydn Gill, published on Cricinfo on 3 May 2006
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Paddy and Murphy Went to London
After walking in the city centre for few minutes, Paddy turns to Murphy with a look of amazement on his face and says: 'Murphy, will you have a look at that shop over there. I thought that London was supposed to be expensive but that shop is as cheap as chips, so it is.'Murphy says: 'Paddy you're right so you are, will you have a look at that. Suits £5, Shirts £2 and Trousers £2. I think that we should buy a job lot and take them back to Ireland. We would make a tidy profit selling them in Dublin so we would.'
Paddy says in agreement: 'Murphy that is as good an idea as you'll ever have, but I'm pretty sure that you have to pay taxes and duty on things like that. The shopkeeper will never let us have them if he thinks that we're gonna export them and make our fortune, so he won't.'
Murphy thinks and says: 'Paddy, I've got idea! You can do the best English accent out of the pair of us. You go in there and do the talking and I'll just stand behind you and say nothing. He'll never guess we're Irish so he won't.'
'OK Murphy', agrees Paddy, 'I'll do the talking, you just stand there and look English.'
So the two visitors to our illustrious capital city go into the shop where Paddy is greeted politely by the owner. Paddy then proceeds to do his best Phil Mitchell impression; 'Awwwight Guvnor, I'll 'ave 20 of yer Whistle 'n Flutes, 20 Dickie Dirts and 20 pairs of strides. And if yer don't mind I'll be paying with the 380 Pictures of the Queen from my Sky Rocket.'
Upon hearing this request from Paddy, the owner smiles, takes a look at Murphy as well then asks Paddy 'You're Irish aren't you?'
Quite bemused, Paddy replies, 'Oh be'Jesus. Mary mother of Christ, if that isn't my best English accent. How in God's name did you know that we were Irish?'
The Owner replies ..... 'cos this is a Dry Cleaners'
A New Cure for Worms
A fellow walked into his doctor's office complaining that he thinks he might have a tapeworm. The doctor made a physical examination and listened to the symptoms, and concurred with the self-diagnosis.'I want you to come back tomorrow to start treatment. And bring a banana and a cookie with you.' said the doctor.
Despite the seemingly odd request, our hero complied and returned the next day with a banana and a cookie.
The doctor then said, 'Okay, now drop your pants and bend over. This is going to hurt a bit.'
Although stunned by the turn of events, the patient dropped his pants and bent over. The doctor peeled the banana and with one deft motion rammed it up the guy's ass. While the doctor consulted his watch, our hero danced around the room shouting at the doctor.
'Okay, one minute is up and we have to complete the second part of the treatment if you truly want to get rid of this tapeworm.' advised the doctor.
Despite the pain, the patient did want to be cured and so complied with the order to bend over again. Again, the doctor took the cookie and rammed it up the patient's ass.
'Okay, tomorrow I want to see you here at the same time, and bring another banana and a cookie.' said the doctor. The now humbled patient, with tears of pain in his eyes, nodded his head.
The next day, the same routine ensued. First the doctor rammed up a banana, waited exactly one minute, then rammed up the cookie. And the next day, and the next day and the next...
Every day up went a banana, waited one minute, then up went the cookie.
After one full week of treatment, the doctor finally said,
'Well, tomorrow is the LAST day of treatment. I want you to bring in a banana and a hammer.'
'Not a cookie?' asked the very frightened patient, trying to imagine what a hammer was going to feel like.
'Nope, a hammer.' confirmed the doctor.
On the last day, the doctor said, 'Okay, you know the routine'. So the man dropped his pants and bent over. UP went the banana, and the doctor looked at his watch and picked up the hammer.
One minute passed. Then two minutes. Three. Four minutes passed.
Finally, the worm's little head poked out of the patient's ass.
'WHERE'S MY COOKIE???'
**WHAM**
Password!!
A woman was helping her husband set up his computer, and at the appropriate point in the process, told him that he would now need to enter a password... Something he will use to log on.
The husband was in a rather amorous mood and figured he would try for the shock effect to bring this to his wife's attention. So, when the computer asked him to enter his password, he made it plainly obvious to his wife that he was keying in
P...
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His wife fell off her chair laughing when the computer replied:
***PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH***
Ear Ear
A young man moved into a new apartment by himself, and went to the lobby to put his name on his mailbox. While there, an attractive young lady came out of the apartment next to the mailboxes, wearing a robe.The boy smiled at the young woman, and she started a conversation with him.
As they talked, her robe slipped open, and it was obvious that she had nothing else on.
The poor kid broke into a sweat trying to maintain eye contact. After a few minutes, she placed her hand on his arm and said,
'Let’s go to my apartment, I hear someone coming'.
He followed her into her apartment; she closed the door and leaned against it, allowing her robe to fall off completely.
Now nude, she purred at him, 'What would you say is my best feature'?
Flustered and embarrassed, he finally squeaked, 'It’s got to be your ears'.
Astounded, and a little hurt she asked, 'My ears? Look at these breasts, they are full and 100% natural, I work out every day, my butt is firm and solid, look at my skin - no blemishes anywhere. How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears'?
Clearing his throat, he stammered, 'Outside, when you said you heard someone coming?
That was me'.
Distressed Widow from Scotland
When Big Peter McFlannel dies in Glasgow, his old widow wishes to tell all his friends at once, so she goes to the newspaper and says 'I'd like tae place an obituary fur ma late husband'The man at the desk says 'OK, how much money dae ye have?'
The old woman replies '£5' to which the man says 'You wont get many words for that but write something and we'll see if it's ok'.
So the old woman writes something and hands it over the counter and the man reads 'Peter McFlannel, fae Parkheid, deid'.
The clerk feels guilty at the abruptness of the statement and encourages the old woman to write a few more things. The old woman ponders and then adds a few more words and hands the paper over the counter again.
The clerk then reads 'Peter Reid, fae Parkheid deid. Ford Escort for sale'
The Scottish Student
A student at an English university, by name of Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye, who was living in the hall of residence in his first year there. After he had been there for a month, his mother came to visit, no doubt carrying reinforcements of oatmeal.'And how do you find the English students, Donald?'
she asked.'Mother,' he replied, 'they're such terrible noisy people! The one on that side keeps banging his head against the wall, and won't stop. The one on the other side screams and screams and screams away into the night!'
'Oh, Donald! How ever do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English neighbours?' 'Mother, I do nothing, I just ignore them! I just stay here quietly playing my bagpipes!'
Street Vendor and the Lawyer
A little old Jewish lady sold pretzels on a street corner for twenty-five cents each. Every day a young lawyer would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed her pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter but never take a pretzel.This went on for more than five years. The two of them never spoke. One day, as the lawyer passed the old lady’s stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel woman spoke to him.
'Sir, I appreciate your business. You are a good customer, but I have to tell you that the pretzel price has gone up to thirty-five cents.'
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A Jewish man moves into a Catholic neighbourhood. Every Friday The Catholics are driven crazy because, while they're morosely eating fish, the Jew is outside barbecuing steaks. So the Catholics work on the Jew to convert him to Catholicism.
Finally, after many threats and much pleading, the Catholics succeed. They take the Jew to a priest who sprinkles holy water on the Jew and says, 'Born a Jew, Raised a Jew, Now a Catholic'.The Catholics are ecstatic. No more delicious, but maddening smells every Friday evening. But the next Friday evening, the scent of barbecue wafts through the neighbourhood.
The Catholics all rush to the Jew's house to remind him of his new diet. They see him standing over the cooking steak.
He is sprinkling water on the meat and saying, 'Born a cow, Raised a cow, Now a fish'.
Smart Kid
Bill and Marla decided that the only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon quickie with their ten-year-old son in the apartment was to send him out on the balcony and tell him to report on all the neighborhood activities.The boy began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation. 'There's a car being towed from the parking lot,' he said. 'An ambulance just drove by.' A few moments passed.
'Looks like the Andersons have company,' he called out. 'Matt's riding a new bike, and the Coopers are having sex.'
Mom and Dad shot up in bed. 'How do you know that?' the startled father asked.
'Their kid is standing out on the balcony too,' his son replied.
Pommie in the Crapper
In the north of Australia is a place called Queensland which is very hot, humid and the pubs are rough.Anyway, this posh pommie bloke is traveling through Queensland in the middle of summer by bicycle and is caught in a huge tropical storm. He sees a sign which says there is a pub 18 miles up the road. So he rides his bike to the pub and when he finally gets there his appearance resembles that of a drowned rat.
Anyway, the locals hardly even look up from their beers as he walks in, dripping wet, and heads up to the bar and orders a scotch on ice. The barman gives him the worst scotch he has ever tasted but the pommie drinks it down and asks the barman where the dunny (toilet) is. The barman tells him it is outside.
So the pommie trudges outside into the rain and all he can see in the rain is two big piles of turds, one much bigger than the other. So the pommie walks over to the smaller pile, relieved that someone had the sense to start a new pile since the larger one was clearly unmanageable.
He has his pants around his ankles and is in the process of relieving himself when a gunshot rings out and a bullet smacks into the heap just beside his head.
Well the poor pommie turns around, in a somewhat vulnerable position, and sees this huge Aussie guy standing at the door of the pub with his still smoking gun in his hand.
'What..What is going on?' Stammers the poor pommie.
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