New Delhi: Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza has announced his retirement from the international cricket. Masakadza played the last match of his international career against Afghanistan. Playing brilliant innings in this match, he scored an unbeaten 71 off 42 balls. On the basis of his innings, he also gave his team a stunning victory by 7 wickets in this match. He departed from his 18-year cricket career with excellent innings and a resounding win.

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Hamilton played a stormy inning in the last match of his cricket career, scoring 71 off 42 balls for his team and hit four fours and five sixes in his innings. His strike rate was 169.05. His innings helped Zimbabwe beat Afghanistan by 7 wickets. In this match, Afghanistan scored 155 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the team of Zimbabwe won by scoring 156 runs for three wickets in 19.3 overs. Hamilton is the only player from Zimbabwe who has played more than 300 international cricket matches.

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At the same time, he is the first player from Zimbabwe to score more than 1000 runs for Zimbabwe in T20 cricket. Hamilton, 36, had scored 2223 runs in 38 Tests for his team at an average of 30.04. He has five centuries to his name in Tests and his best score is 158 runs. Masakadza scored five centuries in a total of 209 ODIs for Zimbabwe and also scored 5658 runs at an average of 27.73. His best innings in ODIs was an unbeaten 178 runs. He scored 1591 runs in 65 T20 matches. His best score was 93 runs.

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