Hamilton Masakadza (Zimbabwe)

Full Name:	Hamilton Masakadza
Date of birth:	09 / 08 / 1983
Country:	Zimbabwe
Role:	Batsman
Batting style:	Right-hand
Bowling style:	Left arm wrist spin

Latest News

• 03/06/10 - Zimbabwe steamroll India in Harare
• 01/06/10 - Dilshan leads from the front in comfortable win
• 04/03/10 - Zim squeeze home by two runs
• 14/08/09 - Zimbabwe notch up tidy victory

Career summary

Hamilton Masakadza Zimbabwe

Born August 9, 1983, Harare

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

- Test debut Zimbabwe v West Indies at Harare - Jul 27-31, 2001

- ODI debut Zimbabwe v South Africa at Bulawayo - Sep 23, 2001

- Hamilton Masakadza was still a schoolboy at Churchill High School in Harare when he set the record - since beaten by Mohammad Ashraful - of being the youngest batsman ever to score a century on his Test debut, at 17 years and 254 days against West Indies in 2000-01

- Earlier in the year he had not only become the youngest Zimbabwean ever to score a first-class century, but also the first black player to do so

- A year later, though, he put his professional cricket career on hold as he began a three-year course at the University of the Free State

- The Streak crisis led to his early recall in the one-dayers against England where, unsurprisingly, he struggled before registering his maiden ODI fifty in the final game

- His return to the Test match team brought mixed results, but he was Zimbabwe's best batsman, technically, on their tour of South Africa, where he showed good application

- He declined a contract in early 2006, explaining that he preferred to concentrate on his studies in South Africa, but remained in the frame despite that

• Career Batting History
• Career Bowling History

Test Matches