Top 3 performances of Hamilton Masakadza in cricket

Hamilton Masakadza was born on August 9, 1983, in Harare. He made his international cricket debut in July 2001 in a Test match against the West Indies. Masakadza played 38 Test matches for Zimbabwe and scored 2223 runs at an average of 30.04. In ODIs, he made 5658 runs in 209 matches at an average of 27.73. He also featured in 66 T20Is for Zimbabwe and amassed 1662 runs at a strike rate of 117.20. He is among the six batters who have made over 5000 runs for Zimbabwe in ODIs. 

Let’s look at the top three performances of Hamilton Masakadza in cricket:

1. 178 vs Kenya, Harare, 2009

In October 2009, Kenya toured Zimbabwe to play a five-match ODI series. In the fifth match of the series, Masakadza made an unbeaten 178 runs off 167 deliveries. It was his second 150+ score in the series. It was the highest individual score by a Zimbabwean batter at that time.

2. 147 vs West Indies, Bulawayo, 2017

Masakadza scored a total of five centuries in his Test career. Two out of these centuries against the West Indies. His best against the West Indies came during the second Test of the two-match series in 2017. Masakadza opened the innings and made 147 runs off 240 deliveries. His innings helped Zimbabwe post a total of 326 runs in the first innings

3. 156 vs Kenya, Harare, 2009

In the 2009 ODI series against Kenya, Masakadza made 156 runs off 151 deliveries in the first game. He became the first batter to score 150+ runs twice in the same ODI series. He finished the series with 467 runs, which was the highest score by a batter in a five-match ODI series at that time. 

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