Tabraiz Shamsi is a former cricket player from South Africa. He was born on February 18th, 1990. Dolphins, Gauteng, Gauteng Under-19s, KwaZulu Natal, KwaZulu-Natal Inland, Lions, and Titans are just a few of the teams that he has represented during his career in first-class cricket. His right-handed batting approach is well-known, and he is also well-known for his left-arm unorthodox spin bowling strategy. The impassioned celebrations he gives after taking wickets have earned him a reputation. In the Pakistan Super League, Shamsi is a member of the Karachi Kings team at the moment.
In addition to that, he is a member of the Paarl Royals in the SA20. During his formative years, Shamsi participated in school cricket championships as a frontline seam bowler. This was while he was in his senior year of high school. However, when he faced tryouts for the under-19 squad, his coaches informed him that he was not quite fast enough to be a seam bowler. They said that he was not quite quick enough. According to reports, he also bowled a lot of cutters, which caused his coaches to recommend that he switch to bowling spin.
During the 2015 season of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20, Shamsi was the player who took the most wickets for the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots. The Eastern cricket team’s roster for the 2015 Africa Twenty20 Cup featured him as a member of the team. During the 2016 Indian Premier League, Shamsi was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore as a replacement player for Samuel Badree, who was injured during the tournament. He made his debut against Rising Pune Supergiants at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, where he took 1/36 in four overs and Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 13 runs.
The Stellenbosch Monarchs announced in August 2017 that they had selected Shamsi to be a part of their team for the first season of the Twenty20 Global League. On the other hand, Cricket South Africa first decided to postpone the event till November 2018, however after that, they decided to cancel it shortly after. After the conclusion of the 2017–18 Ram Slam T20 Challenge, Shamsi finished the competition with 16 wickets from 11 matches, making him the highest wicket-taker in the competition.
Tabraiz Shamsi Biography
| Name | Tabraiz Shamsi |
| Full Name | Tabraiz Shamsi |
| Date of Birth | 18 February 1990 |
| Place of Birth | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Southafrican |
| Father’s Name | Shamshuddin Shamsi |
| Mother’s Name | Fatima Shamsi |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Left-arm unorthodox spin |
| ODI Debut | June 07, 2016 vs. Australia |
| Test Debut | November 24, 2016, vs. Australia |
| Favourite Food | Hyderabadi Biryani. |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
In addition, he was the player who took the most wickets in the Momentum One Day Cup in 2017–2018, with a total of 26 wickets in nine matches. In June 2018, Shamsi was selected to be a member of the Titans team that will compete in the 2018–19 season. In October 2018, he was selected to be a member of the Paarl Rocks team that will compete in the first Mzansi Super League Twenty20 competition. During the competition, he was the team’s joint-leading wicket-taker, with 10 dismissals in nine matches. He was instrumental in the team’s success.
Through a selection process that took place in July 2019, Shamsi was chosen to represent the Edinburgh Rocks in the first-ever edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket event. However, the event was canceled the month after it was scheduled to take place. To provide a substitute for Mason Crane and Brad Taylor, who both suffered injuries during the 2019 Vitality Blast, Hampshire County Cricket Club decided to sign him for the remaining four matches in the group stage.
The Paarl Rocks club which will compete in the 2019 Mzansi Super League competition added Shamsi to their roster in September of this year. The Jamaica Tallawahs announced in July 2020 that he will be a member of their roster for the Caribbean Premier League in 2020. Shamsi, on the other hand, was one of five South African cricketers who did not participate in the competition because they were unable to finalize their travel arrangements promptly.
In the second round of the CSA 4-Day Franchise Series for the 2020–21 season, which took place in November 2020, Shamsi recorded the greatest bowling stats for Titans in a first-class match by taking eight wickets for 32 runs during the second innings of the match against Warriors. At the beginning of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa, Shamsi was selected to be a member of the Northerns team before the season began.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2* | – | 4 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2* | 0.00 | 4 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 5 | 120 | 181 | 3 | 1/21 | 60.33 | 9.05 | 40.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 24 | 34 | 0 | 0/34 | – | 8.50 | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 4 | 96 | 147 | 3 | 1/21 | 49.00 | 9.18 | 32.00 | 0 | 0 |
On the 25th of August in the year 2021, Shamsi was selected to be a substitute player for Andrew Tye in the Rajasthan Royals team that would compete in the second phase of the 2021 Indian Premier League for the United Arab Emirates. His selection to play for the Galle Gladiators in the 2021 Lanka Premier League came about as a result of the players’ draft that took place in November of that year. It was on November 24, 2016, when Shamsi made his debut for South Africa in a test match against Australia. Nathan Lyon was the first wicket he ever took in a test match, and he did it in his very first test match.
As a result of his outstanding performance in the three-match Twenty20 International series against Pakistan, which took place in Pakistan, Shamsi led the ICC Twenty20 International rankings for bowlers for the first time in his career in March of 2021. He took six wickets throughout the series. He obtained his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals in September 2021, when he was playing against Sri Lanka in the second match of the series. Later the same month, Shamsi was selected to be a member of South Africa’s team that would compete in the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup in 2021.
In the last match of South Africa’s three-match Twenty20 International series against England, which took place at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on July 31, 2022, Shamsi recorded stats of 5/24 in his four overs. This made him the sixth player in South Africa’s history to take a five-wicket haul in a Twenty20 Internationals competition. He took his 65th wicket in the format with his fourth wicket, surpassing Dale Steyn to become the top wicket-taker in the history of Twenty20 Internationals for South Africa.
