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Full name | Alex Auma Obanda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Nairobi, Kenya | 25 December 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Opening Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut(cap 34) | 18 October 2007 v Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 30 January 2014 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 12) | 4 September 2007 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 29 August 2022 v Nepal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2011/12 | Southern Rocks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,5 July 2023 |
Alex Auma Obanda (born 25 December 1987) is a Kenyan cricketer who has played first-class cricket for Kenya Select.
When the side participated in the Logan Cup in 2007,Obanda made his first class debut and had a good series,making 296 runs at an average of 37 runs per innings. A right-handed batsman,Obanda scored a century in their draw against Centrals at Kwekwe. [1] He was the only Kenyan player to take part in the 2011–12 Stanbic Bank 20 Series,representing the Southern Rocks. [2] He played two matches without scoring a run. [3]
The World Twenty20 Qualifier was held in March 2012. Kenya failed to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 later that year,though Obanda scored 298 runs in 9 matches with two half-centuries and was Kenya's leading run-scorer in the tournament (seventh overall). [4] [5]
In January 2018,he was named in Kenya's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [6] In July 2018,Obanda scored the first century of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier tournament,when Kenya played Tanzania in the Eastern sub-region group. [7]
In September 2018,Obanda was named in Kenya's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. [8] He was the leading run-scorer for Kenya in the tournament,with 127 runs in four matches. [9] The following month,he was named in Kenya's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Oman. [10]
Obanda was included in Kenya's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [11] [12] In September 2019,he represented Kenya in the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [13] In October 2021,he was named in Kenya's squad for the Regional Final of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Rwanda. [14]
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