India Capitals Player Profile

Hamilton

Masakadza

Batter

Matches

66

Runs

1662

Wickets

2

Born

August 9, 1983

T20I Debut

2006

Role

Batter

Batting Style

Right Handed

Bowling Style

Right-arm medium

Nationality

Zimbabwe

Biography

The right-handed batsman from Zimbabwe burst onto the international circuit and made a name for himself quite early in his career. Hamilton Masakadza was just 17 years and 254 days old when he scored a composed 119 against West Indies in 2000/01 on his Test debut, to become the then youngest batsman ever to score a century on Test debut. The record was then surpassed by Mohammad Ashraful but there is still no doubting the talent and capability of the man from Harare.

An opening batsman, Masakadza has always been an integral part of the Zimbabwean batting line-up and has batted the team to success on a few occasions. His cricketing career has seen many starts and stops due to his constant will to pursue his studies in South Africa. In fact, a year after his Test debut, he put his career on hold to pursue his education but he made sure that he was still available for the team when they needed him. His next break came in the year 2005 when he played an ODI series against England, where he struggled to find form before scoring his maiden ODI fifty in the last game of the series. Masakadza decided to take a break from cricket again and did not sign the national contract early in 2006 but still remained available for Zimbabwe.

The year 2009 turned out to be a big one for the Zimbabwean opener and in the home ODI series against Kenya that year, Masakadza notched up massive scores of 156 and 178 not out. Hamilton Masakadza has proven himself to be an important part of the Zimbabwe team and will certainly be the key to the revival of Zimbabwe cricket.

Statistics

BATTING & FIELDING
MAT
NO
RUNS
HS
AVERAGE
S/R
100S
50S
4S
6S
DUCKS
CT
ST
2019
8
0
146
71 v AFG
18.25
118.69
0
1
12
7
1
5
0
2018
8
0
103
29 v AFG
12.87
89.56
0
0
8
7
0
4
0
2016
12
1
411
93* v BAN
37.36
137.45
0
3
41
21
0
3
0
2015
7
0
169
43 v PAK
24.14
113.42
0
0
16
6
0
5
0
2014
3
0
66
43 v NED
22.00
100.00
0
0
6
1
0
1
0
2013
6
1
182
59 v BAN
36.40
110.97
0
2
17
3
0
-
-
2012
4
0
141
62 v NZ
35.25
119.49
0
2
10
7
0
-
-
2011
4
0
33
12 v PAK
8.25
110.00
0
0
3
1
0
1
0
2010
7
0
153
72 v SA
21.85
93.29
0
1
13
3
0
3
0
2008
4
0
169
79 v CAN
42.25
146.95
0
2
18
8
0
-
-
2007
2
0
54
27 v ENG
27.00
105.88
0
0
3
0
0
2
0
2006
1
0
35
35 v BAN
35.00
145.83
0
0
4
1
0
1
0
Overall
66
2
1662
93* v BAN
25.96
117.20
0
11
151
65
1
25
0
BOWLING
INN
BALLS
RUNS
WKTS
BBI
AVE
ECON
S/R
3W
5W
2014
2
18
31
0
0/11 v NED
-
10.33
-
0
0
2013
2
12
11
1
1/4 v BAN
11.00
5.50
12.00
0
0
2011
2
18
32
0
0/10 v NZ
-
10.66
-
0
0
2010
1
6
14
0
0/14 v SA
-
14.00
-
0
0
2008
1
12
16
0
0/16 v PAK
-
8.00
-
0
0
2007
1
6
9
1
1/9 v AUS
9.00
9.00
6.00
0
0
Overall
9
72
113
2
1/4 v BAN
56.50
9.41
36.00
0
0