সিকান্দার রাজা

IPL Debut & Key Highlights

• Debut: April 1, 2023, for Punjab Kings against KKR.
• First Half-Century: Scored 57 off 41 balls against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on April 15, 2023, becoming the first Zimbabwean to score an IPL fifty. 

IPL Career Stats (As of late 2024/early 2025)

• Matches Played: 9
• Innings: 9
• Runs: 182
• Batting Average: 26.00
• Strike Rate: 133.82 (or 133.83)
• Highest Score: 57
• Fours: 12
• Sixes: 8
• Wickets: 3
• Bowling Average: Varies (e.g., 3 wickets in 9 matches) 

• Test Cricket: Maiden Test century against Sri Lanka in 2017; picked up his first five-wicket haul against the West Indies in the same year.

• T20 Cricket: Has scored over 3,000 runs, with 20 fifties, and is considered an integral part of the Zimbabwe national team.

• ODI Cricket: Scored his maiden ODI century against Afghanistan in July 2014.

• IPL (Indian Premier League): Scored his highest IPL score of 57 in 2023. 

• IPL debut: 2023

• 2022 Season: Had a career-defining year, scoring 645 runs in ODIs and 516 in T20Is.

• 2023 Season: Scored three ODI centuries in a single month while chasing, a world-first.

• Player of the Tournament: Awarded Player of the Tournament at the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier.

• ILT20 2024: Named the most valuable player.

• Zimbabwean milestones: Set the record for the highest individual score in a successful ODI run chase (141) and the highest opening partnership in ODIs (224 with Hamilton Masakadza).

• Other records: Holds several records in both ODI and T20I cricket, including the second-most player-of-the-match awards in T20Is. 

• Test debut: 2013

• ODI debut: May 2013 against Bangladesh

• T20I debut: November 5, 2013, against Bangladesh 

International Debuts

• ODI: May 3, 2013 vs. Bangladesh
• T20I: May 11, 2013 vs. Bangladesh
• Test: September 3, 2013 vs. Pakistan 

Recent International Matches (as of late 2025)

• Last ODI: August 31, 2025 vs. Sri Lanka
• Last Test: October 20, 2025 vs. Afghanistan (or Aug 7, 2025 vs. New Zealand, depending on source)
• Last T20I: July 20, 2025 vs. South Africa (or Nov 25, 2025 vs. Sri Lanka in some lists)