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Hamilton Masakadza

Hamilton Masakadza (born August 9, 1983 in Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm leg-break bowler. In February 2000 he became the first black Zimbabwean to score a first-class century. Soon after, in July 2001 he became the youngest player to make a century on his Test debut. His innings of 119 was made against the West Indies in Harare and helped his side draw the match. Still at high school, he was aged just 17 years and 254 days at the time. He only held this record until August however when Mohammad Ashraful took it from him. His career since has been often interrupted by his studies but he has managed a further 14 Tests. He went into the record books again against the West Indies in December 2007, this time in an ODI. His opening partnership of 167 with Vusi Sibanda was a national record, with Masakadza making 80 of those runs. His maiden ODI century against a Test-playing nation came on 14 August 2009, eight years after his Test century, when he scored 102 off 112 balls against Bangladesh batting at Number three. Biography written by RISHABH W.Q.A.I.O.M OWNER

Hamilton Masakadza (born August 9, 1983 in Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm leg-break bowler.

In February 2000 he became the first black Zimbabwean to score a first-class century. Soon after, in July 2001 he became the youngest player to make a century on his Test debut. His innings of 119 was made against the West Indies in Harare and helped his side draw the match. Still at high school, he was aged just 17 years and 254 days at the time. He only held this record until August however when Mohammad Ashraful took it from him. His career since has been often interrupted by his studies but he has managed a further 14 Tests.

He went into the record books again against the West Indies in December 2007, this time in an ODI. His opening partnership of 167 with Vusi Sibanda was a national record, with Masakadza making 80 of those runs. His maiden ODI century against a Test-playing nation came on 14 August 2009, eight years after his Test century, when he scored 102 off 112 balls against Bangladesh batting at Number three.

Biography written by RISHABH W.Q.A.I.O.M OWNER

Batting & Fielding Averages


	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	15	30	1	785	119	27.06	1786	43.95	1	3	107	4	8
ODIs	68	68	3	1551	87	23.86	2191	70.78	0	12	165	12	27
T20Is	7	7	0	258	79	36.85	190	135.78	0	2	25	9	3
First-class	64	113	3	4004	142	36.40			8	23			50
List A	116	116	7	3054	103*	28.01			1	23			52
Twenty20	24	23	5	721	101*	40.05	575	125.39	1	5	58	24	8

Bowling Averages


	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
Tests	15	4	126	39	2	1/9	1/9	19.50	1.85	63.0	0
ODIs	68	26	649	589	17	3/39	3/39	34.64	5.44	38.1	0
T20Is	7	2	18	25	1	1/9	1/9	25.00	8.33	18.0	0
First-class	64		2295	1034	32	4/11		32.31	2.70	71.7
List A	116		1309	1053	39	4/36	4/36	27.00	4.82	33.5	1
Twenty20	24	12	204	196	13	2/6	2/6	15.07	5.76	15.6	0

Type	Time (GMT)	Runs	Wickets	Catches	Stumpings
International	2009-11-10 12:20	0	0	1	0	5
International	2009-11-08 07:50	11	0	0	0	11
International	2009-11-08 07:45	0	0	0	0	0
International	2009-11-07 23:50	0	0	0	0	0
International	2009-11-05 02:20	10	0	0	0	10
International	2009-11-03 02:50	2	0	0	0	2
International	2009-11-02 23:50	0	0	0	0	0
Total	23	0	1	0	28