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; he is his favourite cricketer because Afridi is a flamboyant batter with a good ability to ball legbreak, similar to that of Mushangwe. While representing the Zimbabwe XI in a match, M’shangwe scored 7 runs before getting out. He didn't take any wickets, but did have a low economy rate. In the next match M’shangwe showed his all-round ability by scoring 11 runs for the final wicket and taking the wicket of Netherlands opener

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Early and domestic career

Mushangwe is a

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. Mushangwe is part of the emerging Zimbabwean players to help Zimbabwean Cricket improve and to aid its return to the Test Arena which Zimbabwe stopped playing in 2006 but will return to after the

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. Mushangwe also has the ability to bat in the lower order. He has a high score of 53, and his batting gives the selectors a certain amount of safeguard about the top order of the team. He was the leading wicket-taker in the

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, with seventeen dismissals in eight matches.

International career

He made his

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debut for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh on 3 November 2014. In June 2018, he was named in a Board XI team for warm-up fixtures ahead of the

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References

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