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Personal Information

Full Name Tatenda Taibu
Born May 14, 1983 Harare
Age 41 Years, 7 Months, 10 Days
National Side Zimbabwe
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting - - -
Bowling - - -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
1 3 1 1

Career Information

Teams Played Zimbabwe, Africa XI, Namibia, Badureliya Sports Club, Mashonaland A, Mountaineers, Mashonaland, Northerns (Zim), Southern Rocks, Zimbabwe A, Zimbabwe Inv XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Zimbabwe Under-19
Career Span

Tatenda Taibu Profile

Tatenda Taibu Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
28 54 3 1546 153 v BAN 1 12 182 7 30.31 41.42 57 5
ODI
150 137 21 3393 107* v SA 2 22 235 32 29.25 67.58 114 33
World Cup
14 12 2 306 98 v CAN 0 3 24 1 30.60 69.07 7 3
T20I
17 15 6 259 45* v IND 0 0 19 2 28.77 100.77 6 5
IPL
3 3 0 31 15 v RCB 0 0 3 0 10.33 119.23 1 0

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
1 8 1 27 1 1/27 v SL 0 0 27.00 3.37 48.00
ODI
2 14 1 61 2 2/42 v SL 0 0 30.50 4.35 42.00
T20I
2 4 0 41 0 0/20 v ENG 0 0 - 10.25 -

Tatenda Taibu Profile

Tatenda Taibu’s talent with the gloves was evident from his schooling days when aged just 16, he was called up to Zimbabwe’s national team for a trip to England as a cover for Andy Flower, even before he had played first-class cricket.

An ODI debut followed in 2001 but in his initial ten ODI innings, Taibu was a disaster with the bat reaching double figures just once with four ducks during the same period. However, it was his impressive work behind the stumps coupled with selectors looking to reduce the enormous workload on Andy, which saw the glove man getting an extended run in the team. Their faith was repaid as the youngster showed first signs of his improved batting with a half century in a Test against Pakistan. But his work behind the stumps grabbed all eyeballs, as with his quick reflexes, acrobatic abilities and awareness of situations, Taibu had a knack of creating something from nothing. He soon became integral to the Zimbabwean team featuring in the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup and following Heath Streak’s shock resignation from captaincy in 2004, was handed the reins. He went on to have a disastrous outing as captain, leading a team replete with rookies and it signified one of the worst phases in Zimbabwean cricket. The pressure finally took its toll on the diminutive batsman who announced his resignation from captaincy and retired from cricket in 2005, only to return after a two-year hiatus.

A busy player, Taibu had a fetish for cross batted strokes and sweeps with a bulk of his runs coming in singles and twos. However, Zimbabwe’s underachieving nature over the years hasn’t helped him grow on the personal front. Aged 29, Taibu put an end to an international career that lasted 11 years, in which he became the youngest Test captain in the history of the game. The decision came as a surprise as just hours ago, he was named in Zimbabwe’s provisional squad for the 2012 World Twenty20.

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