tabraiz shamsi Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
tabraiz shamsi is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Tabraiz Shamsi
Born
February 18, 1990, Johannesburg, Gauteng
Age
33 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Wrist spin
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 2 | 49 | 63 | 5 |
Inn | 4 | 12 | 13 | 1 |
Runs | 20 | 26 | 9 | 2 |
Avg | 20.0 | 6.5 | 1.8 | 0.0 |
SR | 41.67 | 48.15 | 34.62 | 50.0 |
HS | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
NO | 3 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
6s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 2 | 49 | 63 | 5 |
Inn | 4 | 46 | 63 | 5 |
Balls | 483 | 2403 | 1360 | 120 |
Runs | 278 | 2220 | 1675 | 181 |
Wkt | 6 | 70 | 76 | 3 |
BBI | 91 / 3 | 49 / 5 | 24 / 5 | 21 / 5 |
BBM | 128 / 4 | 49 / 5 | 24 / 5 | 21 / 5 |
Eco | 3.45 | 5.54 | 7.39 | 9.05 |
Avg | 46.33 | 31.71 | 22.04 | 60.33 |
5W | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Dolphins
- Easterns
- Galle Gladiators
- Galle Titans
- Gauteng
- Gauteng Under-19s
- Guyana Amazon Warriors
- Karachi Kings
- KwaZulu-Natal
- KwaZulu-Natal Inland
- Lions
- Oval Invincibles (Men)
- Paarl Royals
- Rajasthan Royals
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- South Africa A
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
- Titans
- Trent Rockets (Men)
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
His big break came in franchise cricket, when Royal Challengers Bangalore drafted him in as replacement for the injured Samuel Badree in IPL 2016. Shamsi only featured in four matches all season and couldn't give a fair account of himself, partly due to some pretty harsh conditions for bowlers.
By 2017, he had made his debut in all three formats for South Africa. However, the presence of an established performer like Tahir in the team, who was also a wrist-spinner,meant that the opportunities for Shamsi were few and far between.
Shamsi first started playing in the domestic circuit in 2009 for Gauteng, before moving to Kwa-Zulu Natal where he struggled for success, and shifted base again to join the Titans.
The first few years didn't bring the impact which Shamsi must have desired. It was in 2013/14, when he finished as the third-highest wicket-taker with 47 wickets to his name, in the three-day Cup that he got noticed and claimed a more concrete position for the Titans.
In 2015, Shamsi earned a contract with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots - the Caribbean Premier League franchise, where he ended up as the leading wicket-taker, helping him secure a deal with an IPL franchise. In a rather rare art, especially in South Africa, Shamsi played for Paarl Rocks in the Mzansi Super League. In the inaugural edition of MSL, the wrist-spinner was the most economical bowler (6.30 RPO) in the competition.
Shamsi was named in the 2019 World Cup squad - his first appearance in the mega event. Thanks to Tahir's presence, he found it difficult to make it to the playing XI. Shamsi was picked for two round-robin encounters in the multi-nation tourney, but the tweaker not only remained wicketless but was also expensive. The retirement of Imran Tahir post the World Cup, however, meant that Shamsi was now seen as South Africa’s main spin weapon. His career started to pick-up a different trajectory as he started to get more exposure and experience.
In early 2021, Shamsi climbed up the charts and became the number one rated bowler in ICC’s T20I Rankings. He was picked in South Africa’s squads for both the 2021 and 2022 T20 World Cups and picked up 8 wickets from 5 games and 4 wickets from two games respectively. In July 2022, Shamsi picked up figures of 5/24 in a T20I against England and surpassed Dale Steyn’s 64 wickets to become South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in T20I cricket.
He was named in South Africa’s 15-member squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A left-arm wristspin bowler with ample variations and a good googly, Tabraiz Shamsi emerged as South Africa were starting to warm to the wave of spinners being produced at domestic levels, although it took a while for him to come through.
Shamsi bounced between the Highveld and Kwa-Zulu Natal and pushed for a place at franchise level after a strong 2013-14 season for Easterns. He took 47 wickets at 20.02 to finish third in the three-day cup wicket-takers' list, and then played five matches in the 2014-15 franchise 20-over competition where caught the eye of the touring West Indians, who were visiting South Africa that summer.
In 2015, Shamsi was bought by Caribbean Premier League franchise St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, where Eric Simons was coach. There, Shamsi rose to some prominence, taking 11 wickets at 13.27 in the seven matches he played.
More regular opportunities in franchise cricket came the next season and Shamsi took them. He finished as the leading spinner in South Africa's first-class competition in the 2015-16 summer, in which he took 41 wickets at 19.97 in Titans' title-run. In 2016, he was picked up by the IPL's Royal Challengers Bangalore as a replacement player for the injured Samuel Badree which meant that Shamsi had played in two T20 leagues before picked for the national side.
His ODI debut finally came in a triangular series in the Caribbean in June 2016. That same year he made his Test debut against Australia in Adelaide and the following June, he played his first T20 international. But Shamsi struggled to find a regular place in the South African side, with Keshav Maharaj established as the Test spinner and Imran Tahir their white-ball specialist. Shamsi was part of the 2019 World Cup squad and played two matches but it was only after Tahir's ODI retirement after the 2019 World Cup that Shamsi came into his own.
In the 2019-20 summer, he finished second on the Mzansi Super League wicket-charts and was a star performer in the Paarl Rocks' tournament-winning campaign and was afforded a regular run in white-ball series against England and Australia. In addition to his ability to take wickets, he also demonstrated the capacity to hold an end, something South Africa have always wanted from their spinners.