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Mluleki Nkala

Zimbabwe

Full name Mluleki Luke Nkala

Born April 1, 1981, Bulawayo

Current age 30 years 315 days

Major teams Zimbabwe, Matabeleland

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	10	15	2	187	47	14.38	452	41.37	0	0	23	1	4
ODIs	50	35	5	324	47	10.80	526	61.59	0	0	22	4	6
T20Is	1	1	0	1	1	1.00	3	33.33	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	51	81	9	1889	168	26.23			2	11			23
List A	89	62	12	697	54*	13.94			0	2			19
Twenty20	3	2	0	1	1	0.50	7	14.28	0	0	0	0	1

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	10	15	1452	727	11	3/82	5/104	66.09	3.00	132.0	0	0	0
ODIs	50	46	1582	1570	22	3/12	3/12	71.36	5.95	71.9	0	0	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	51		6107	3448	84	4/33		41.04	3.38	72.7		0	0
List A	89		2923	2681	66	4/24	4/24	40.62	5.50	44.2	2	0	0
Twenty20	3	2	18	20	0	-	-	-	6.66	-	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Zimbabwe at Nottingham, Jun 1-5, 2000 scorecard
Last Test	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Chittagong, Jan 6-10, 2005 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v India at Bulawayo, Sep 27, 1998 scorecard
Last ODI	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Dhaka, Dec 9, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Khulna, Nov 28, 2006 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1999/00
Last First-class	Mid West Rhinos v Southern Rocks at Kwekwe, Feb 14-17, 2011 scorecard
List A debut	1997/98
Last List A	Matabeleland Tuskers v Mid West Rhinos at Bulawayo, Nov 30, 2010 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Khulna, Nov 28, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Mid West Rhinos v Matabeleland Tuskers at Harare, Feb 16, 2010 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
13, 0/11, 0	Rhinos	v Rocks	Kwekwe	14 Feb 2011	First-class
50	Rhinos	v Rocks	Kwekwe	11 Dec 2010	First-class
-	Rhinos	v Tuskers	Bulawayo	30 Nov 2010	List A
0/32, 1	Rhinos	v Eagles	Kwekwe	5 Oct 2010	List A
0/29, 9	Rhinos B	v Mount B	Kwekwe	30 Sep 2010	Other T20
5, 0/21	Rhinos B	v Mount B	Kwekwe	29 Sep 2010	Other OD
0, 0/8	Rhinos	v Tuskers	Harare	16 Feb 2010	Twenty20
0/12	Rhinos	v Eagles	Harare	14 Feb 2010	Twenty20
0, 1/33, 14, 1/21	Rhinos	v Rocks	Masvingo	3 Feb 2010	First-class
0/30, 37, 0/8, 57	Rhinos	v Eagles	Kwekwe	20 Jan 2010	First-class

Profile

Universally known as "Psych", Mluleki Nkala has seven brothers and seven sisters. A member of the Ndebele tribe, he took the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar with his second ball in international cricket, in a one-dayer against India at Bulawayo in 1999, when he was just 18. His father had never seen a game of cricket until then. Nkala made his Test debut against England at Trent Bridge in 2000. A medium-fast inswing bowler who can bat - he made a hundred against England Under-19s in 1998 from No. 6, he was the leading wicket-taker in that year's Youth World Cup in South Africa, with 15 scalps. Amiable and friendly, he spent a few weeks at the Australian Cricket Academy, working with Dennis Lillee. A fringe player during the early part of his career, Nkala found a more regular place in the Zimbabwe squad after the departure of the so-called rebels in 2004.
Geoffrey Dean