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| Born | 20 September 1990 Harare, Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut(cap 156) | 6 January 2024 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 8 January 2024 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2015/16 | Mountaineers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017/18– | Eagles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,25 May 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tapiwa Mufudza (born 20 September 1990) is a Zimbabwean cricketer.
Mufudza has been an off-spinner since he took up the game at Mbizi Primary School in Highfield,Harare. He played for the Takashinga Cricket Club in Harare before being recruited by Mountaineers. [1]
He played his first matches for Mountaineers in 2011–12,and established himself in the side in 2012–13,when he took 13 wickets at an average of 14.92 to lead the national first-class bowling averages. [2] In the Logan Cup match against Southern Rocks he scored 39 batting at number 10,then took 2 for 46 and 5 for 27 in a 116-run victory. [3] In the Zimbabwean T20 competition final against Mashonaland Eagles he opened the bowling and took 4 for 14. Mountaineers won the match and he won the man of the match award. [4]
He played for Cookham Dean in the Thames Valley Cricket League in 2014,taking 80 wickets at an average of 14.86 and making 499 runs at 27.72. [5]
In the Logan Cup in December 2014,Mufudza took 7 for 31 in the second innings against Mid West Rhinos,including the first six wickets to fall,to ensure victory for Mountaineers. [6] In January 2015 he played two 50-over matches for Zimbabwe A against Canada,taking two wickets for 56 runs in 20 overs. [7] Later that month,opening the bowling in a List A match against Mashonaland Eagles,he took 4 for 28. [8] In December 2020,Mufudza was selected to play for the Eagles in the 2020–21 Logan Cup. [9] [10]
In April 2021,he was named in Zimbabwe's squad for their Twenty20 International (T20I) series against Pakistan. [11] He played two One Day Internationals on Zimbabwe's tour of Sri Lanka in 2023–24,but did not take a wicket. [12]