Chamunorwa Justice "Chamu" Chibhabha (born 9 September 1986) is a Zimbabwean
cricket
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er who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. In January 2020,
Zimbabwe Cricket
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named him as the captain of Zimbabwe's
One Day International
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(ODI) and
Twenty20 International
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(T20I) squads on an interim basis.
Domestic career
Chibhabha made his maiden
first-class century at Harare against Sri Lanka A. The match was drawn, and he made 40 and 103. In his previous first-class match, against South Africa Academy, he made 98 before being run out.
He was the leading wicket-taker for the
Mashonaland Eagles
The Mashonaland Eagles is one of five cricket Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are based in the Harare Metropolitan and Mashonaland Central area and play both first-class and limited overs cricket. They play their home matches at Harare Spo ...
in the
2018–19 Logan Cup
The 2018–19 Logan Cup was the 25th edition of the Logan Cup, a first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe, that started on 3 December 2018. The tournament featured four teams, instead of the five that took part in the previous edition, with th ...
, with sixteen dismissals in five matches. In December 2020, he was named as the captain of the
Eagles
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for the
2020–21 Logan Cup
The 2020–21 Logan Cup was the 27th edition of the Logan Cup, a first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe, which started on 9 December 2020. After originally scheduled to start on 3 December 2020, the tournament was moved back a week to allow ...
.
Personal life
His sister
Julia Chibhabha also plays international cricket for the Zimbabwe national women's team. She was captain for Zimbabwe's World Cup qualifiers in Pakistan in November 2007.
International career
Chibhabha made a
duck
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on international debut, against
New Zealand
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during the
2005–06 Videocon Tri–Series. Chibhabha has also played
first class matches for
Mashonaland
Mashonaland is a region in northern Zimbabwe.
Currently, Mashonaland is divided into four provinces,
* Mashonaland West
* Mashonaland Central
* Mashonaland East
* Harare
The Zimbabwean capital of Harare, a province unto itself, lies entirely ...
, and earned a recall to the national side in April 2006, when the team
toured West Indies. In the first ODI, he top scored with 55, but his six overs cost thirty runs, and Zimbabwe lost by five wickets.
Chibhabha showed excellent talent during the
Indian tour of Zimbabwe in 2015. He was the highest run scorer in the twenty20 series and Zimbabwe won their first Twenty20 International against India. He top scored in this match with 67 and earned man of the match and man of the series as well.
In July 2016 he was named in Zimbabwe's
Test
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Arts and entertainment
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* ''Test'' (2014 film), ...
squad for their
series against New Zealand.
On 28 July 2016 he made his Test debut for Zimbabwe against New Zealand.
He played in the most ODIs for Zimbabwe before making his Test debut.
He's also having the joint record for taking the most catches by a substitute fielder in a T20I innings, along with
Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Shashi Patel (born 7 May 1980) is a former New Zealand international cricketer. A right arm off spin bowler, he plays for Wellington in New Zealand and Warwickshire in England. He is also the spin bowling coach for the England cricket ...
,
Eoin Morgan
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,
Hashim Amla
Hashim Mahomed Amla OIS (born 31 March 1983) is a South African former international cricketer who played for South Africa in all three formats of the game. Amla holds the record for being the fastest ever to score 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 ...
,
Johnson Charles
Johnson Charles (born 14 January 1989) is a St Lucian international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. As a wicketkeeper-batsman, Charles started his ODI career against Australia in March 2012. His first T20I came against England in Septemb ...
and
Jonathan Carter.
In June 2018, he was named in a Board XI team for warm-up fixtures ahead of the
2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series
The 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament held from 1 to 8 July 2018 in Zimbabwe. It was a tri-nation series between Australia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, with all the matches played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) at the Har ...
.
Chibhabha was the last batsman, and the only Zimbabwe player, to be out
handled the ball
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in an international match, before that mode of dismissal was abolished in 2017.
Following an almost two-year absence from Test cricket, Zimbabwe would schedule
West Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2022–23 to be played in February 2023, and Chibhabha would be named in the squad, going on to play his first test in five and a half years in the 1st Test.
References
External links
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1986 births
Living people
Zimbabwean cricketers
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
Zimbabwe Twenty20 International cricketers
Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup
Mashonaland cricketers
Centrals cricketers
Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup
Zimbabwe Select XI cricketers