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Full name Friday Kasteni
Born March 25, 1988, Kadoma
Current age 20 years 204 days
Major teams Zimbabwe, Africa XI, Centrals, Midlands, Zimbabwe A, Zimbabwe Provinces
Batting style Left-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

ODIs

6.00

42.85

First-class

564

100*

29.68

982

57.43

List A

317

18.64

569

55.71

Twenty20

24.50

101.03

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

ODIs

First-class

7.40

List A

7.00

Twenty20

6.50

Career statistics

ODI debut

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, Feb 10, 2007 scorecard

Last ODI

Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Kingston, Mar 21, 2007 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class debut

2004/05

Last First-class

Southerns v Centrals at Masvingo, May 17-20, 2008 scorecard

List A debut

Zimbabwe A v Bangladesh A at Bulawayo, Jul 6, 2006 scorecard

Last List A

Centrals v Westerns at Harare, Jun 2, 2008 scorecard

Twenty20 debut

Centrals v Easterns (Zimbabwe) at Harare, Mar 19, 2008 scorecard

Last Twenty20

Centrals v Southerns at Harare, Mar 21, 2008 scorecard

Friday Kasteni is a left-handed aggressive top-order batsman with a fine technique who came into the limelight in April 2005 when at the age of 16 he scored an unbeaten century on his first-class debut for Midlands in a Logan Cup match at Kwekwe Sports Club. He is also good behind the stumps and played in that match as a wicketkeeper. He played like a veteran in that match to finish unbeaten on exactly 100. Kasteni was drafted into the Zimbabwe Under-19 team that took part in the Afro-Asia tournament in India late 2005. He made it into Zimbabwe Under-19 side that went to the 2006 Under-19 World Cup held in Sri Lanka, played in all Zimbabwe's five matches as they reached the last eight of that event.

In July 2006, Kasteni was drafted into the Zimbabwe A side that took on Bangladesh A in a series of three first-class matches and five limited-overs matches. He played two of the three one-day matches for Zimbabwe A against South Africa A and looked promising but only had a top score of just 22. He was drafted into the Zimbabwe squad to play against Bangladesh, made his debut in the last match of the series, scoring 9. The Zimbabwe selectors had already been impressed by his performance for Zimbabwe A and see him as player for the future, hence he was the only surprise when Zimbabwe named their final 15 member squad for the World Cup. He bowls left arm spin but does not turn the ball and South African Justin Kemp recently clubbed him for two huge sixes at Queens Sports Club, one of them, which fell out of the ground.
Steven Price February 2007

Apr 0, 2008

Tendai Chisoro, Regis Chakabva, Friday Kasteni (front); Prosper Tsvanhu. Walter Chawaguta, Shepherd Makunura (back) © Cricket Australia

Apr 0, 2008

Friday Kasteni at nets © Cricket Australia

Mar 21, 2007

Mohammad Sami was too quick for Friday Kasteni © AFP

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