Mashonaland Eagles
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| Captain: |
 Elton Chigumbura
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| Coach: |
Grant Flower
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| Overseas player(s): |
 Ryan ten Doeschate Andrew Hall Peter Trego (T20 only) Rory Hamilton-Brown (T20 only) |
| Colors: | First-class: List A & T20: |
| Founded: | 2009 |
| Home ground: | Harare Sports Club, Harare |
| Capacity: | 10,000 |
| First-class debut: |
Mountaineers in 2009–10 at Harare Sports Club |
| Official website: | Mash Eagles |
The Mashonaland Eagles is one of five cricket Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are based in the Harare Metropolitan and Mashonaland Central area and play both first-class and limited overs cricket. They play their home matches at Harare Sports Club in Harare.
In the 2009–10 season, Zimbabwe Cricket following the decline of the standard of cricket, decided to use a new set of teams in all the first-class, List A and T20 domestic formats of the game. A total of 5 teams were named, and the Mashonaland Eagles franchise was based in Harare.
Coming into this tournament, Mash Eagles were the favourites. They performed according to expectations by winning the tournament, by drawing the Mid West Rhinos in the final (they finished winners in virtue of finishing top of the group pool, and also coming first in the group.
On 14 September, the Eagles made their first-class debut against the Mountaineers. It was also the tournament opener. The match was drawn.
They then drew with Mid West Rhinos, and then got their first-ever first-class victory when they crushed Southern Rocks by 234 runs. They then continued their campaign with a six-wicket victory over Matabeleland Tuskers and another six-wicket win over Mountaineers. Another six wicket victory followed over Mid West Rhinos, and then a draw was achieved against the Southern Rocks at Masvingo. This was followed by a crushing nine-wicket win over the Tuskers, which was followed by a draw with Mountaineers. Following another draw with Mid West Rhinos, the Eagles then crushed Southern Rocks by an innings and 19 runs. Following this, they suffered the first ever first-class loss, a seven-wicket defeat to the Tuskers. The final against Mid West Rhinos was drawn, but Eagles finished champions on virtue of finishing first in the group pool.
Mash Eagles began their Faithwear Metbank campaign with a 4-wicket loss to Mountaineers, but duly bounced back to finish third in the pool and qualify for the semi-finals. In the semi-final, they were defeated by the Mid West Rhinos by 2 wickets, thus getting eliminated.
Mash Eagles had an excellent start to their debut Twenty20 campaign as they beat Matabeleland Tuskers by 5 wickets at Harare. They continued their good form throughout the group matches, eventually finishing first in the pool with 17 points.
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