Brian Masaba

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Brian Masaba
Personal information
Born (1991-09-12) 12 September 1991 (age 32)
Kampala, Uganda
BattingRight-handed
Role Batsman
International information
National side
T20I debut(cap  14)23 May 2019 v  Ghana
Last T20I5 June 2024 v  Papua New Guinea
Source: Cricinfo, 25 December 2022

Brian Masaba (born 12 September 1991) is a Ugandan cricketer and the current captain of the Uganda cricket team. [1]

Career

He played for Uganda in the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. In April 2018, he was named Uganda's vice-captain for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four tournament in Malaysia. [2] [3]

In July 2018, he was part of Uganda's squad in the Eastern sub region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier tournament. [4] He was the vice-captain of Uganda's squad at the 2018 Africa T20 Cup and the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Oman. [5] [6] [7]

In May 2019, he was named in Uganda's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [8] [9] [10] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Ghana on 23 May 2019. [11] In July 2019, he was among the 25 players included in the Ugandan training squad, ahead of the Cricket World Cup Challenge League fixtures in Hong Kong. [12]

In November 2019, ahead of the 2019 Oman Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament, Masaba was made captain of the Uganda national cricket team. [13] [14] In November 2021, he was named as the captain of Uganda's squad for the Regional Final of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Rwanda. [15] In May 2022, he was named as the captain of Uganda's side for the 2022 Uganda Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament. [16]

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  11. ↑ "15th Match, ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Region Final at Kampala, May 23 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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  16. ↑ @CricketUganda (18 May 2022). "Our final 14 for the ICC Cricket Challenge League Tournament" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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