Alester Maregwede played international cricket for Zimbabwe between 2003 and 2005 and is now playing club cricket in Australia where he took his side to its first title in 20 years and won a number of awards on the way. He spoke to zimcricketnews.com about his hopes of playing for Zimbabwe again, playing with Andy Flower and the new franchise system for domestic cricket in the country.

As a kid I played with Andy Flower for the same club, when I was actually the captain, and he passed on a lot of things to me that even now I still use. He also gave me a copy of a book, Mental Toughness in Sports, and what he followed in it is what got him to be the Number 1 batsman in the world. At 24 they said I was too old to be playing and they pushed me into coaching, I had to do 2 years of it and playing and proved that I was good enough to play,and still one of the fittest. I haven't given up playing for my country and I will be making a return - I have always wanted to return to international cricket when we start playing Test cricket again, Test Cricket is the Cricketers ultimate Test.

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