Harare Sports Club: cricket results and records

Harare Sports Club appears in 226 recorded matches, the first on 10 February 2003 and the latest on 30 September 2026. The matches are 133 in One Day Internationals, 78 in Twenty20 Internationals and 15 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe (18 matches), Ireland tour of Zimbabwe (18 matches) and Zimbabwe Twenty20 Tri-Series (14 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Zimbabwe (198 matches), Ireland (37 matches), India (33 matches) and Pakistan (26 matches).

Of the 226 matches, 219 produced a winner, 1 were drawn, 2 were tied and 4 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 537 by Sri Lanka against Zimbabwe on 29 October 2016.

The lowest completed total is 59 by Zimbabwe against New Zealand on 7 August 2005.

In the 205 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 101 (49.3%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are BRM Taylor (3,045 runs in 80 innings), Sikandar Raza (2,995 runs in 99 innings), H Masakadza (2,092 runs in 84 innings), SC Williams (2,089 runs in 72 innings) and CR Ervine (1,824 runs in 58 innings).

The leading wicket takers are R Ngarava (83 wickets), B Muzarabani (78 wickets), Sikandar Raza (73 wickets), TL Chatara (55 wickets) and B Evans (51 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 215* by Abid Ali against Zimbabwe on 7 May 2021, 200* by Younis Khan against Zimbabwe on 3 September 2013 and 200* by AD Mathews against Zimbabwe on 19 January 2020.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 63 by HMRKB Herath against Zimbabwe on 6 November 2016, 7 for 95 by Saeed Ajmal against Zimbabwe on 3 September 2013 and 7 for 113 by Sikandar Raza against Sri Lanka on 27 January 2020.

The first innings of 15 Test matches matches here averaged 366.7 runs.

In 131 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 238.0 and the side batting second 203.4.

In 76 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 157.8 and the side batting second 133.1.

The toss is recorded in 226 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 166 (73.5%) and to bat in 60.

Among the 219 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 102 times (46.6%).

Batters at the ground hit 8,454 fours and 1,482 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.9 balls; 47.5% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 56%, bowled 20%, lbw 11%, run out 7% and caught and bowled 3% of the 3,348 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 61%, bowled 22%, lbw 12%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 3% of the 3,092 times.

That is 44.0 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (26), 2010s (84) and 2020s (116).

The competitions that have used the ground are Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe (18 matches), Ireland tour of Zimbabwe (18 matches), Zimbabwe Twenty20 Tri-Series (14 matches), Ireland Women tour of Zimbabwe (12 matches), Zimbabwe Triangular Series (11 matches), India tour of Zimbabwe (11 matches), ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (10 matches) and ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Region Final (10 matches).