Former West Indies batsman Brian Lara and ex-England left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom have been signed Zimbabwean franchise Southern Rocks for the Stanbic Bank Twenty20 competition, which will start in Harare on November 13.
Both of the player are now retired from international cricket, so far the experts have been raising questions on Brain's Lara cricket as he had been out of the cricket since his retirement.
Lara, for many years regarded alongside Sachin Tendulkar as one of the best batsmen of his era.Lara had a stint with the unofficial Indian Cricket League in 2007-08,where he leads Mumbai Champs and has maintained ambitions of coming out of retirement to try his hand at Twenty20 - a format that hadn't taken off internationally when he retired.
Rocks chief executive Givemore Makoni told the Zimbabwe Independent."We have signed Sidebottom and we have also confirmed the Lara deal, so we are done with the acquisition of new personnel and we are just ready to get going,"
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