Hamilton Masakadza

Full Name:	Hamilton Masakadza
Birth date:	August 9, 1983
Age:	38 years
Hometown:	Harare
City:	Harare
Birth Country:	Zimbabwe
Batting Style:	Right Hand Batsman
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium Bowler
Team :	Zimbabwe

Hamilton Masakadza is a player who has been the real backbone of the Zimbabwe cricket team since his debut. He was born in the year 1983 on 9thh of August. He is currently playing in the team as the batsman and was previously an opener in the first class cricket but came in the national team as a first down batsman. He made the record of becoming the youngest player to score a century which was later broken by Mohammad Ashraful. Hamilton made his test debut for Zimbabwe in the year 2001 against West Indies. It was this match where he gained his entire name as he played a 119 run innings which was a match saving one. The Zimbabwe team had already been under the trail after a poor 1st innings and Masakadza came in to score a century in the second innings and save the test.

His elite carrier in the world of cricket went through many tough challenges. After a world class debut hi took a gap from cricket to complete his studies. Later he returned to the world cricket and scored his debut ODI fifty against England. In the year 2006 according to the cricket pundits he was the best batsmen in the Zimbabwe team for the South Africa tour. His capabilities of scoring quick runs were always questioned and this is the reason why his presence in the ODI squad was questioned. After a lean patch he was dropped from the World Cup team in the year 2010. He came back strong in the team. In the year 2014 he became one of the most talented batsmen for the team in both tests and ODI format of the game.

Recent matches

Runs	Team	Opp	Match Date	Score
0	Zimbabwe	Ireland	2019-07-14	IT20
1	Zimbabwe	Ireland	2019-07-12	IT20
14, 25	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2018-11-11	TEST
52, 48	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2018-11-03	TEST
2	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2018-10-26	ODI
14	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2018-10-24	ODI
21	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2018-10-21	ODI
21	Zimbabwe	South Africa	2018-10-12	IT20
1	Zimbabwe	South Africa	2018-10-09	IT20
28	Zimbabwe	South Africa	2018-10-06	ODI

Statistictics by year

Batting Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Out	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BP	SR	100s	50s	0s	4s	6s	Ct
TEST	35	70	69	1	1942	158	28.14	4264	45.54	4	7	10	228	22	29
ODI	177	176	172	4	5267	178	30.62	7050	74.71	5	33	10	539	83	64
IT20	54	54	52	2	1266	93	24.35	1118	113.24	0	7	1	113	48	19

Bowling Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Overs	MO	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Eco	SR	Ext	BBI	BBM
TEST	35	23	193	49	486	16	30.38	2.51	72.4	3	3/24	3/24
ODI	177	78	288.2	4	1546	37	41.78	5.56	46.7	44	3/39	3/39
IT20	54	7	9	0	83	2	41.50	9.22	27.0	2	1/4	1/4

Awards

Player of the Match	Date
Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 4th T20 Match 2016	2016-01-22
Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 1st T20 Match 2016	2016-01-15
Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI Match 2016	2016-01-02
Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan 3rd ODI Match 2014	2014-07-22
Zimbabwe vs Pakistan 1st ODI Match 2013	2013-08-27

Man Of Series	Date
Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe ODI Series 2017	2017-07-10
Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe T20 Series 2016	2016-01-22
Zimbabwe vs Kenya ODI Series 2009 Schedule	2009-10-18

Last Series Played

Ireland vs Zimbabwe T20 Series 2019

Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe Test Series 2018

Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe ODI Series 2018

South Africa vs Zimbabwe T20 Series 2018

South Africa vs Zimbabwe ODI Series 2018

Team Squad
Tanaka Lance Chivanga	Craig Ervine
Richmond Mutumbami	Donald Tiripano
Brandon Mavuta	Regis Chakabva
Victor Nyauchi	Tendai Chatara
Milton Shumba	Brad Evans