Taurai Chitsinde

Taurai Chitsinde
Cameo Sigauke
Position Shooting guard / Small forward
League Harare Basketball Association
Personal information
Born (1985-06-01) June 1, 1985
Harare, Zimbabwe
Nationality Zimbabwean

Tauarai Lawrence Chitsinde (born June 1, 1985) is a Zimbabwean professional basketball player who currently plays for Cameo Sigauke of the Harare Basketball Association (HBA). The swingman is the captain of the Zimbabwe national basketball team.

International career

Chitsinde captains the Zimbabwe national basketball team. In the preliminary rounds of the AfroBasket 2007, he averaged 1.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, and 1.0 assists. In the AfroBasket 2009 qualifiers, Chitsinde averaged 3.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.8 assists. Following Zimbabwe's first-ever qualification into the AfroBasket in 2015, Chitsinde said, "My team played well. This is our first time to qualify so it is a big achievement for us. We worked hard as a team and hope to do much better since we will be facing more experienced teams."[1] On August 6, 2015, he was named to Zimbabwe's 14-man preliminary squad for the event.[2]

References

  1. "Zimbabwe’s Afrobasket Qualification Unravelled". News of the South. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. "Zimbabwe squad down to 14 ahead of AfroBasket 2015". FIBA. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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