Samuel Walusimbi (born 1948) is a former
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er from Uganda. He played three
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
s (ODI) in the
1975 cricket World Cup
The 1975 Cricket World Cup (officially called the Prudential Cup '75) was the inaugural men's Cricket World Cup, and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket. Organised by the International Cricket Confer ...
, representing the
East Africa cricket team
The East Africa cricket team was a team representing the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and later Zambia. Their first game was against Rhodesia in 1951. East Africa appeared in the 1975 World Cup and the 1979, 1982 and 1986 ICC Trophi ...
. Walusimbi was one of the founding members of the Wanderers Cricket Club, the second-oldest cricket club in Uganda, won the top flight cricket league in Uganda in 1993, and was part of the Nomads cricket team that toured Kenya and Uganda in 2005. In 2007, he was the coach of the
Uganda national cricket team
The Uganda national cricket team, nicknamed the Cricket Cranes, is the men's team that represents Uganda in international cricket. The team is organised by the Uganda Cricket Association, which has been an ICC members, associate member of the ...
and in 2016 he was named the Nile Special-Uganda Sports Press Association Legendary award winner.
His son
Tendo Mbazzi also played international cricket for Uganda.
References
External links
Interview with Samuel Walusimbi
1948 births
Living people
East African cricketers
East Africa One Day International cricketers
Ugandan cricketers
Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup
Coaches of the Uganda national cricket team
East and Central Africa cricketers
Ugandan cricket coaches
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