"I THINK I am about 6 foot 8, I think this height has worked nicely for me. Growing up I was watching tall bowlers you know. Morne Morkel (South Africa) was bowling really nicely. I know Mitchell Starc (Australia) was a left-hander and I just like his rhythm so I just picked something from them.
“I just try and focus on the way I do things; the likes of Heath Streak they really did well and we are here because of them, but at the same time I really just focus on me and the things I want to achieve in my career and hopefully I will do better than Heath Streak. So that’s just the dream right now,” he said.
The Zimbabwe team coach Dave Houghton has high regard for Muzarabani.
“Obviously he is special in a number of ways. He is big, he is tall and extracts an incredible bounce, but he is a magnificent cricketer. For a big tall man he is one of our better fielders. I know that he doesn’t let off and when he hits them they stay hit as well,” Houghton said of his top bowler.
Zimbabwe cricket legend Andy Flower, who is in the country to cover the World Cup qualifiers is a big admirer of Muzarabani and sees great exploits coming from the cricketer.
“I have worked with him at Multan Sultans (Pakistan Premier League) and also he was part of our squad in IPL (Lucknow Super Giants). Bounce is his point of difference, he also gets the new ball to shape out. He has developed a really good off spinner slower ball and I think he has got attributes to make him a world class cricketer,” Flower said.
Zimbabwe failed to qualify for the ICC Men’s World Cup for the second consecutive time in agonising fashion after they lost to Scotland by 31 runs in a do-or-die encounter on Tuesday last week at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.
Muzarabani had expressed his desire to take part at the World Cup set for India later this year but the dream is now up in smoke.
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“I would really like to play in India (at the World Cup) because when I was there practising with Andy Flower I felt the wicket there had something for me,” he had said.
Muzarabani is also known as Mabhunu, a nickname he was given by his peers after he hit a white man with a cricket ball when he was playing cricket as a junior.
