Hamilton Masakadza’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Zimbabwean cricketer
Is Athlete
Cricketer
From Zimbabwe
Type Sports
Gender male
Birth

9 August 1983

Age 37 years
Star sign Leo

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.

Early career

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.

International career

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.

When Zimbabwe made its return to Test cricket in August 2011, playing a one-off match against Bangladesh in Harare, Masakadza made 104 in the first innings – thus making his second Test century ten years after his first. In 2015, he made his first appearance in the senior Cricket World Cup, having previously made two appearances in the Under-19 version (in 2000 and 2002).

As of November 2015, Masakadza is Zimbabwe’s sixth-highest Test run-scorer and fifth-highest ODI run-scorer. He is also the country’s leading Twenty20 International run-scorer, becoming the first Zimbabwean to reach 1,000 runs in this format on 29 September 2015.

In Zimbabwe’s tour of Bangladesh in January 2016, Masakadza set a world record for the most runs scored in a T20I bilateral series, with a total of 222 across four games.

Following India’s tour to Zimbabwe in June 2016, Masakadza became the first Zimbabwean cricketer to play in 50 Twenty20 International matches.

International centuries

Test centuries

Hamilton Masakadza’s Test centuries
# Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year Result
1 119 1  West Indies Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2001 Drawn
2 104 16  Bangladesh Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2011 Won
3 111* 23  Bangladesh Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2013 Lost
4 158 28  Bangladesh Khulna, Bangladesh Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium 2014 Lost

One Day International centuries

Hamilton Masakadza’s One Day International centuries
# Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year Result
1 102 69  Bangladesh Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club 2009 Won
2 156 72  Kenya Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2009 Won
3 178* 76  Kenya Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2009 Won
4 110 165  Afghanistan Sharjah, UAE Sharjah Cricket Stadium 2016 Lost

International Awards

Test Cricket

Man of the match awards

  • In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping
# Series Season Match Performance Result
1 2nd Test – West Indies in Zimbabwe Test Series 2001 1st Innings – 9 (23 balls, 1×4). 2nd Innings – 119 (316 balls, 12×4) . Drawn.

One-Day International Cricket

Player of the series awards

# Series Season Match Performance Result
1 Kenya in Zimbabwe 2009/10 467 runs, 3 wickets. (5 Matches)  Zimbabwe Won the series 4-1.

Man of the Match awards

S No Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1 Sri Lanka Harare Sports Club, Harare 24 November 2008 77 (71 balls, 7×4, 2×6) ; DNB  Sri Lanka won by 5 runs.
2 Kenya Harare Sports Club, Harare 12 October 2009 156 (151 balls, 11×4, 6×6) ; 1-0-7-0  Zimbabwe won by 91 runs.
3 Kenya Harare Sports Club, Harare 18 October 2009 178 (167 balls, 17×4, 4×6)  Zimbabwe won by 142 runs.
4 Pakistan Harare Sports Club, Harare 27 August 2013 2-0-17-0; 85 (104 balls, 9×4, 1×6)  Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets.
5 Afghanistan Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo 22 July 2014 84 (93 balls, 9×4, 2×6); 1-0-6-0  Afghanistan won by 2 wickets.
6 Afghanistan Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah 2 January 2016 83 (138 balls, 6×4, 3×6); DNB ; 2 ct.  Zimbabwe won by 117 runs.

Twenty20 International Cricket

Man of the match awards

# Series Date Opposition Match Performance Result
1 Quadrangular Series in Canada 13 October 2008 Canada 79 (52 balls, 8×4, 3×6); DNB  Zimbabwe won by 109 runs.
2 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe 11 May 2013 Bangladesh 59 (48 balls, 4×4, 1×6); 1-0-7-0  Zimbabwe won by 6 runs.
3 Walton T20 Cricket Series 15 January 2016 Bangladesh 79 (53 balls, 9×4, 2×6); DNB  Bangladesh won by 4 wickets.
4 Walton T20 Cricket Series 22 January 2016 Bangladesh 93* (58 balls, 8×4, 5×6); DNB  Zimbabwe won by 18 runs.

Player of the series awards

# Series Season Match Performance Result
1 Walton T20 Cricket Series 2015/16 222 runs (2×50) , 1 ct. (4 Matches) Series drawn 2-2.
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