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Richard Ngarava

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Richard Ngarava

Richard Ngarava appears in 22 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (20 Oct 2025 to 25 Jul 2026). 71 runs in 11 innings. 41 wickets from 121 overs. 173 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.

Player profile

Country
Zimbabwe
Role
Bowler
Batting
Left-hand bat
Bowling
Left-arm fast-medium
Born
28 Dec 1997 Age 28
Recorded matches
173140 internationals

Richard Ngarava is a bowler from Zimbabwe with 173 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 140 internationals (12 Tests, 46 ODIs, 82 T20Is).

Batting: 544 runs across all recorded formats, with 0 hundreds and 0 fifties; the most runs came in ODI cricket (285) and the highest recorded score is 48.

Bowling: 216 wickets in recorded matches, 92 of them in T20I cricket, with 2 five-wicket hauls.

Career figures by format

Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.

Richard Ngarava: batting and bowling figures by format in FairPlay's recorded data
FormatMatInnsRunsHSAvgSR100/50WktsBowl avgEcon5w
Test1220138288.6345.80/02934.343.551
ODI46302854816.7685.10/06826.845.081
T20I8237108155.14100.00/09224.737.870
T20 (league and domestic)1871162.7591.70/01725.658.380
T1015122–200.00/01029.1011.260

Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.

Richard Ngarava at a glance

FairPlay holds 22 complete scorecards featuring Richard Ngarava, most recently for Zimbabwe (T20 and shorter, one-day, first-class).

In those matches Richard Ngarava batted 11 times for 71 runs at a strike rate of 73.20. The highest score was 27 off 41 balls against Bangladesh.

With the ball: 41 wickets from 121 overs, an economy rate of 6.39. Best figures: 5 for 37 against Afghanistan.

How the 6 dismissals happened: bowled 3, caught 2, run out 1.

These matches were played at 8 different grounds.

Figures in FairPlay's scorecards

Batting
115712711.8373.200/0
Bowling
2412110773415/376.39

Match by match

Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.

DateMatch
25 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v IndiaBat 1 (8) · Bowl 1/43 (3)
23 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v IndiaBat – · Bowl 1/30 (2.2)
19 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat – · Bowl 2/20 (4)
17 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat 15* (17) · Bowl 2/23 (4)
15 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat – · Bowl 4/26 (4)
9 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat – · Bowl 3/55 (9.1)
6 Jul 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat 27 (41) · Bowl 3/31 (7.1)
28 Jun 2026Zimbabwe v BangladeshBat 3 (11) · Bowl 2/18 (10) & 3/32 (9)
26 Feb 2026India v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 1/62 (4)
23 Feb 2026Zimbabwe v West IndiesBat 7* (6) · Bowl 2/47 (4)
9 Feb 2026Oman v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 3/17 (4)
5 Feb 2026Oman v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 0/26 (3)
3 Feb 2026Netherlands v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 3/11 (3)
26 Dec 2025Sharjah Warriorz v Desert VipersBat – · Bowl 1/30 (4)
25 Nov 2025Sri Lanka v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 0/44 (3.2)
23 Nov 2025Pakistan v ZimbabweBat 5 (5) · Bowl 1/34 (4)
20 Nov 2025Sri Lanka v ZimbabweBat – · Bowl 2/15 (4)
18 Nov 2025Pakistan v ZimbabweBat 1* (1) · Bowl 1/31 (4)
2 Nov 2025Zimbabwe v AfghanistanBat 5 (3) · Bowl 1/40 (4)
31 Oct 2025Zimbabwe v AfghanistanBat 2* (2) · Bowl 0/35 (4)
29 Oct 2025Zimbabwe v AfghanistanBat 5* (2) · Bowl 0/38 (4)
20 Oct 2025Zimbabwe v AfghanistanBat 0 (1) · Bowl 0/28 (6) & 5/37 (13)

Zimbabwe's next match

Afghanistan v Zimbabwe, Test Series, 13 Nov 2026.

The playing XI is named at the toss, so this does not mean Richard Ngarava has been selected.

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