Hamilton Masakadza

Personal information

Full name

Hamilton Masakadza

Born

9 August 1983 (age 33)
Harare, Zimbabwe

Height

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium

Role

All-rounder

Relations

Shingirai Masakadza (brother)
Wellington Masakadza (brother)

International information

National side

Zimbabwe

Test debut (cap 53)

27 July 2001 v West Indies

Last Test

6 November 2016 v Sri Lanka

ODI debut (cap 65)

23 September 2001 v South Africa

Last ODI

15 June 2016 v India

ODI shirt no.

T20I debut (cap 6)

28 November 2006 v Bangladesh

Last T20I

22 June 2016 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2000–05

2001

2003–04

2007–09

2009–present

2013

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	T20I	FC
Matches	32	168	50	121
Runs scored	1,794	4,680	1,413	8,395
Batting average	28.93	28.71	29.43	41.15
100s/50s	4/6	4/30	0/10	21/38
Top score	158	178*	93*	208*
Balls bowled	1,128	1,802	72	3,710
Wickets	16	38	2	56
Bowling average	29.56	41.84	56.50	29.37
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	3/24	3/39	1/4	4/11
Catches/stumpings	22/–	65/–	16/–	99/–

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 November 2016

Hamilton Masakadza (born 9 August 1983) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was the captain of Zimbabwe until his sacking from the post, following the Zimbabwe Cricket board's review of the team's poor performance at the 2016 ICC World T20. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. His brothers, Shingirai Masakadza and Wellington Masakadza, also play for Zimbabwe; all three have played domestically for the Mountaineers. He is one of Zimbabwe's leading run scorers in international formats.

In February 2000, aged just 16 and still a schoolboy at Churchill School, Masakadza became the first black Zimbabwean to score a first-class century. He made his Test debut soon after, in July 2001, against the West Indies in Harare. In his team's second innings, he made 119, thus becoming - at the age of 17 years and 354 days - the youngest player to make a century on his Test debut. However, he only held this record for less than two months, before it was broken by Bangladesh's Mohammad Ashraful.

After briefly putting his professional cricket career on hold to study at the University of the Free State, Masakadza was recalled to the national team in late 2004 following the rebel crisis, and has maintained a regular presence since.

During the team's six-year exile from Test cricket (2005–2011), he increased his ability in One Day Internationals. His first century in this format came on 14 August 2009, against Bangladesh in Bulawayo, and in October 2009 he made scores of 156 and 178 not out in a home ODI series against Kenya - thus becoming the first Zimbabwean to make two scores of 150 or more in ODIs, and the first player from any country to make two such scores in the same series.He has the record for scoring the most number of runs in a 5 match ODI series(467)

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