Tarisai Musakanda (born 31 October 1994) is a Zimbabwean

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er who plays for the

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. He was part of Zimbabwe's squad for the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

Domestic career

He made his

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debut in 2014 and his first-class debut in the same year. In December 2018, during the opening round of the

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, Musakanda scored his maiden century in first-class cricket. In December 2020, he was named as the captain of the Rhinos for the

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International career

In October 2016 he was included in Zimbabwe's

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for their series against Sri Lanka. The following month he was included in Zimbabwe's

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(ODI) squad for the

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against Sri Lanka and the West Indies. He made his ODI debut in the final of the tri-series against Sri Lanka. In February 2017, he was named in an academy squad by

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to tour England later that year. He made his Test debut for Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka in their one-off Test in Colombo on 14 July 2017. In June 2018, he was named in a Zimbabwe Select team for warm-up fixtures ahead of the

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. Later the same month, he was named in a 22-man preliminary

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(T20I) squad for the tri-nation series. He made his T20I debut for Zimbabwe against

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on 1 July 2018, during the tri-series. In September 2018, he was named as the captain of Zimbabwe's squad for the

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tournament. He was the leading run-scorer for Zimbabwe in the tournament, with 182 runs in four matches.

Personal life

In February 2022, Musakanda was charged with

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after failing to report a road accident in which a pedestrian was killed. The pedestrian was later identified as

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, a Zimbabwean tennis player who went onto represent Zimbabwe at the

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