There is always a certain excitement whenever a young batsman with a lot of promise emerges into the scene. Such is the case with Luke Mafuwa Jongwe. Having made a name in junior teams more as a batsman than a bowler, Jongwe is yet to come to the party with the bat in national colours. His story sounds like a page ripped from a fairy-tale book. First of all, a stranger discovered his talent when he was playing street cricket in the dusty streets of Glen View in Harare, then his parents emphatically opposed the idea of their son playing cricket instead of concentrating on school work.
But such was the young man’s belief in his own ability that he wrote on his bedroom wall at 16 that he would play for the national team before he was 20 and the dream came to fruition. While cricket became the centre of his life as a young lad, big things began to unlock for him when he went for secondary school at Churchill High School. First, he made the Zimbabwe Under-14 team to tour Namibia and at the tender age of 16, he made it to the Zimbabwe Under-19 World Cup team.There is always a certain excitement whenever a young batsman with a lot of promise emerges into the scene. Such is the case with Luke Mafuwa Jongwe. Having made a name in junior teams more as a batsman than a bowler, Jongwe is yet to come to the party with the bat in national colours. His story sounds like a page ripped from a fairy-tale book. First of all, a stranger discovered his talent when he was playing street cricket in the dusty streets of Glen View in Harare, then his parents emphatically opposed the idea of their son playing cricket instead of concentrating on school work.
But such was the young man’s belief in his own ability that he wrote on his bedroom wall at 16 that he would play for the national team before he was 20 and the dream came to fruition. While cricket became the centre of his life as a young lad, big things began to unlock for him when he went for secondary school at Churchill High School. First, he made the Zimbabwe Under-14 team to tour Namibia and at the tender age of 16, he made it to the Zimbabwe Under-19 World Cup team.
