Brendan best in Zimbabwe
Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, was named the country's cricketer and batsman of the year at the annual awards ceremony in Harare on Monday. Left-arm fast bowler Brian Vitori won two awards while medium-pacer Keegan Meth was the bowler of the year.
Zimbabwe returned to Test cricket in 2011 after a six-year gap and hosted three teams -- Bangladesh, Pakistan and New Zealand -- with encouraging results. The standout player in those series was Taylor, who took over the captaincy in June and led Zimbabwe to victory in their Test comeback against Bangladesh.
Taylor scored two hundreds in three Tests this year and also became the first Zimbabwean to score back-to-back ODI centuries, against New Zealand in September. He averaged 49.53 in 17 ODIs so far in 2011.
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