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Cricket in Zimbabwe has been through hard times in the past six years with the country coming very close to losing its Test status. After a time of voluntary exile from the Test arena Zimbabwe will play its first Test in four years against Bangladesh in May 2011. This weekend a nine-day domestic Twenty20 competition begins featuring some of the
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world's top stars including Brian Lara, Jason Gillespie and Ryan Sidebottom playing alongside Zimbabwe's finest young players. Steve Vickers (right) reports on the current state of cricket in Zimbabwe and looks forward to the Twenty20 competition with former South African all-rounder, Lance Klusener and Dave Houghton, former Zimbabwe captain and coach of on eof the five domestic teams.
Brazilian football star Lucio (left) has played over 90 times for his country. He helped Brazil win the 1992 World Cup and earlier this year was part of the Inter Milan side that won the UEFA Champions League. The 32-year-old central defender talks to us about playing his first game for his country, the role of captaincy and winning the 2009 Confederations Cup.


















The story of former South African cricket captain, Hansie Cronjé.
Really love hearing the stories and about sports and people that I don't know much about. Would love to hear a story on chaplains in sport. I think some cricket teams have them. Anyway, keep up the good work on a very enjoyable show.