Tinashe Hove, Date of Birth

    

Tinashe Hove

Zimbabwean cricketer

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1984

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: Zimbabwe

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Tinashe Hove

  • Tinashe Hove (born 1 September 1984) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played domestically for Matabeleland, Westerns, and Southerns. From Tshabalala, Bulawayo, Hove made his limited overs debut for Matabeleland during the 2003–04 season of the Faithwear Inter-Provincial Tournament.
  • He went on to play two more one-dayers in his debut season, and also made his first-class debut, playing two Logan Cup matches.
  • A right-handed opening batsman, his opening partner during his early career was often Terry Duffin, a future Test player.
  • During the following 2004–05 season, Hove scored a maiden limited-overs half-century, 80 runs against Namibia.
  • He put on 139 runs for the third wicket with Mark Vermeulen, who was (unusually) dismissed obstructing the field after making 105 from 96 balls.
  • Later in the season, Hove scored his first and only first-class century, 115 runs against Midlands in the Logan Cup.
  • He briefly retired hurt during his innings, but returned to feature in a 131-run eighth-wicket partnership with Keith Dabengwa, who scored 161 from eighth in the batting order.Following on from his run of good form, Hove was selected in the Zimbabwe under-23s squad that played in South African provincial cricket during the 2005–06 season.
  • He played one three-day match and three one-day matches, but failed to pass double figures in any innings.
  • Owing to the ongoing Zimbabwean cricket crisis, domestic first-class competition were suspended during that season, but a Zimbabwe A team did host Bangladesh A in a five-week series in June and July 2006.
  • Hove scored two half-centuries in the three first-class matches played on tour, and was consequently selected for Zimbabwe A on its return tour of Bangladesh in December 2006.After the reorganisation of Zimbabwean cricket for the 2006–07 season, Hove was assigned to the new Westerns franchise.
  • He scored only 124 runs from five matches in that season's Logan Cup, and 76 runs from four matches in the limited-overs competition.
  • Despite his poor form, Hove was named in Zimbabwe's preliminary 30-man squad for the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.
  • He did not make the final squad, and the 2006–07 season was the last in which he played regularly at a high level.
  • He did not play any further first-class matches, but represented Southerns in a single one-day match in May 2008.

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