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Bulawayo Athletics Club will be holding a dinner function on the 6th of February in honor of Tuskers and national team batsman Charles Coventry.

The cricket section chairman and one of the organizers, Mr Derrick Townsend told the Chronicle Sport that the club was honoring the world class batsman for the sterling performance he displayed for his country against Bangladesh in August 2009 when he scored a world equaling record 194 not out. He played these magnificent innings in the third One Day International of the Grameenphone Series which Zimbabwe eventually lost.

Mr Townsend said the club recognized the significant role Coventry had played to put the city of Bulawayo on the map. Bulawayo is where the series against Bangladesh was played and where Coventry was born and raised. "He has done the country and us (BAC) proud thus we decided to honor him and thank him for the contributions he has made," he said.

Coventry on this fateful day equaled the One Day Internationals highest score by an individual with Pakistan's great batsman Saeed Anwar. All over the world he has made an impression by this tremendous innings and has gone on to be nominated by the international media as the best ODI batsman award in the year 2009.
[Source: ZC]