Malcolm Noel Waller is a Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

an cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a middle-order batsman and off-spinner.

Career

Following his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut in the Logan Cup

Logan Cup

The Logan Cup is the premier domestic first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe. The current champions are the Matabeleland Tusker.-History:...

 in April 2008, he was called up to the national team for a tour of Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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, where he made his international debut in a One Day International on 19 January 2009. Chasing mere 128, Zimbabwe were in trouble at 44/6 when Waller walked in and drove his first ball through the covers for four. He played a few more encouraging shots and was the top scorer in the innings with 24. With Ray Price's entertaining shots in the end Zimbabwe won by 2 wickets eventually.

Waller's record chase, 2011

Malcolm Waller rose to fame when he helped Zimbabwe to chase down their highest ever target in One Day International of 328 against New Zealand at Bulawayo in the third match. He showed immense character to chase a total of more than 300 for the first time in Zimbabwe's history by remaining unbeaten on 99.

Test Debut against New Zealand, 2011

Following this, he made his test debut against New Zealand in the only test at Bulawayo on Nov 1, 2011. Waller remained unbeaten on 72 and became eleventh Zimbabwean to score 50 or above in debut test.

Family

Waller's father, Andy, played for Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s.Incidentally, his father also scored 50 in his debut test albeit in second innings. His cousin, Nathan Waller also represented Zimbabwe under-19 teams.

External links

• Cricinfo
• CricketArchive