Masakadza the leading run scorer in 2009 ODI's

[Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic)]

I thought you were talking about overall records in tests. Yes, highest individual score is indeed attainable. I heard on BBC DH's- 200 in slow motion, and saw AF's 232 also. Once the match was saved, flower showed no interest of catching dave's record. All non- bowlers bowled in that innings and only Andy knows whether it was out of respect for houghton or the match being saved As the reason why he didnt push for 266

[StevenZim]

Hamilton Masakadza is the most exciting batter is world cricket. Can't wait till Zimbabwe are back in test cricket so he can tear attacks apart. I will certainly fly over to zimbabwe to see that

[tawac]

Masakadza has indeed come of age. He has put in a top notch performances of late. This is what he really needed if he was to be considered for bigger tasks like Captaincy. He is really throwing his name into the hat as well. Lets hope he keeps the runs coming. During the just ended Kenya Series I was particulary impressed by Bradon Taylor. He has really matured as a Cricketer and has a presence everytime he is out there on the middle. But his wicket keeping aint nothing to write home about.

[Conant]

Masakadza has indeed come of age. He has put in a top notch performances of late. This is what he really needed if he was to be considered for bigger tasks like Captaincy. He is really throwing his name into the hat as well. Lets hope he keeps the runs coming. During the just ended Kenya Series I was particulary impressed by Bradon Taylor. He has really matured as a Cricketer and has a presence everytime he is out there on the middle. But his wicket keeping aint nothing to write home about.

Which is why I don’t understand the debate on Tatenda Taibu, or indeed the wicket keeping. It’s such a vital position there is no reason to settle for second best, unless if your keeper is a terrible slouch with the bat.

[eugene]

Well done to Hamilton Masakadza for his performances this year. It is great to see him perform well, but I think we need to remember who he has scored his runs against before anointing him the saviour of Zimbabwean cricket. Racking up big runs against Kenya is one thing, but he now needs to push on and score big against the major test playing teams when given the opportunity. The amazing thing about Andy Flower was his ability to score big against anyone, at anytime, and even while the rest of the team was collapsing around him.

Let's Hamilton goes on to become one of our best.

[tawac]

Let's Hamilton goes on to become one of our best.

He has the makings of a great batsman. He had like a 3 year break from international cricket from the time he made that Hundred on his test debut. We all expecting him to continue but he choose to go to college. But now he has been playing at the top for a while. I believe cricket is an art and you reap the rewards as you continue to master the technic. I sure hope he along with the other guys will be the greats to lead us back to the test arena.

[tawac]

October 21, 2009

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Hamilton Masakadza's 178 in the fifth ODI against Kenya took him past Chris Gayle's record © Cricinfo Ltd



While most of the cricket community was taking a break from the demanding international schedule following the Champions Trophy in South Africa - and a smaller part of it is trying to keep pace with the Champions League in India - Zimbabwe and Kenya were playing a five-ODI series in Harare. Largely unnoticed, Zimbabwe won the rubber 4-1, but Hamilton Masakadza's contribution to the victory was spotted by a reader, Bhagyesh Shah, who wrote to tell us the Zimbabwe batsman's aggregate of 467 runs was the highest for a bilateral series of any length.


Masakadza began with 156 in the first game, scored 66, 44 and 23 in the next three, before ending the series with a career-best 178 not out. His 467 runs came at an average of 116.75 and he beat Chris Gayle's bilateral-series record of 455. Gayle set the benchmark in India during a seven-match series in 2002-03, played on some of the flattest tracks in recent memory. Out of the 14 team totals in the series, four were more than 300, and six others exceeded 270. Gayle scored three hundreds and a half-century, averaging 65, as West Indies won 4-3.


Most of the top bilateral-series aggregates have been scored in contests comprising five ODIs or more. The first entry for a shorter series (four matches or less) is Zaheer Abbas' 346 runs, in a four-ODI home series against India in 1982-83. He started poorly, with 10 in the first match, but ended it with a hat-trick of hundreds. However, Mohammad Yousuf - when he was known as Yousuf Youhana - scored 405 runs in four innings during a series in Zimbabwe in 2002-03. It was a five-ODI series, which Pakistan swept, but Yousuf didn't bat in the fourth game. He was dismissed only once and so his average for the series was 405 as well.

[Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic)]

Wonderful record. It deserves a new thread actually. Thanks tawac.
More than Gayle's record i am happy that youhana's record made in Byo is eclipsied.