Mpumelelo Mbangwa is a former Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

an cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er and currently, a cricket commentator. He played fifteen Tests

Test cricket

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 and twenty nine One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. After being dropped from the international side after the 2002 Champions Trophy

2002 ICC Champions Trophy

-Semifinals: -Finals: =*Ricky Ponting *Adam Gilchrist *Michael Bevan*Jason Gillespie*Nathan Hauritz*Matthew Hayden*Brett Lee*Darren Lehmann*Jimmy Maher...

, he took up work as a cricket commentator

Sportscaster

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 for television, and he has remained in that line of work since. He is also known under his nickname Pommie.

Given a qualification of twenty innings, Mbangwa has the lowest batting average (2.00) of all Test cricketers. However, , he is one of nine Zimbabweans to have taken 30 Test wickets, and of those only Heath Streak

Heath Streak

Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...

 and David Brain

David Brain

David Hayden Brain is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 9 Tests and 23 ODIs from 1992 to 1995....

took them at a lower average.