William Takudzwa Mashinge | |
Fullname: | William Takudzwa Mashinge |
Birth Date: | 6 October 1996 |
Birth Place: | Marondera, Zimbabwe |
Nickname: | Hindias |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
Country: | Zimbabwe |
International: | true |
T20idebutdate: | 1 October |
T20idebutyear: | 2019 |
T20idebutagainst: | Nepal |
T20icap: | 57 |
Lastt20idate: | 3 October |
Lastt20iyear: | 2019 |
Lastt20iagainst: | Singapore |
Club1: | Mountaineers |
Year1: | 2016 |
Date: | 3 October 2019 |
Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1969/1969566/1969566.html CricketArchive |
William Takudzwa Mashinge (born 6 October 1996) is a Zimbabwean cricketer who has represented the Mountaineers in Zimbabwean domestic cricket. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm fast-medium and bats right-handed.
Mashinge was born in Marondera, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East Province.[1] He made his first-class debut in January 2016, aged 19, playing for the Mountaineers against the Mid West Rhinos in the Logan Cup.[2] Later in the year, Mashinge was selected in the Zimbabwe under-19s squad for the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh.[3] He played in all six of his team's matches, scoring 127 runs (the third-most for Zimbabwe) but taking just two wickets.[4] In the ninth-place play-off against Afghanistan, he top-scored for Zimbabwe with 66 runs from 92 balls.[5]
He made his Twenty20 debut for Zimbabwe against Free State in the 2016 Africa T20 Cup on 9 September 2016.[6] In February 2017, he was named in an academy squad by Zimbabwe Cricket to tour England later that year.[7] He made his List A debut for Mountaineers in the 2018–19 Pro50 Championship on 8 December 2018.[8]
In September 2019, he was named in Zimbabwe's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2019–20 Singapore Tri-Nation Series.[9] He made his T20I debut for Zimbabwe, against Nepal, in the Singapore Tri-Nation Series on 1 October 2019.[10]
In December 2020, he was selected to play for the Southern Rocks in the 2020–21 Logan Cup.[11] [12]