Career
He has played international cricket for the Zimbabwe cricket team He also played for Midlands in the Logan Cup. Sibanda is a right-handed opening batsman and showed potential as a teenager, graduating from the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy and being fast-tracked into the national team
Sibanda has been ruled out of selection at present due to him skipping the Logan Cup for Grade cricket club Eastern Suburbs.
He"s working his way to international reckoning by returning to play for the Mid West Rhinos. He made his ODI debut in 2003 against the West Indies and made 58.
Sibanda however struggled at international level from there on in, not scoring another half century for 18 innings, making at one stage 3 consecutive ducks. In May 2005 his place in the national team came under threat by the imminent return of the "rebel" Zimbabwean cricketers who walked out on the team in a dispute with Zimbabwe Cricket.
The return was unsuccessful and Sibanda again became a regular at the top of the order for Zimbabwe, making his maiden ODI hundred in 2006 against Bermuda in the Caribbean Tri Nations Tournament.
He made a return to international cricket (although he denied ever retiring ) for the Africa XI in the 2007 Afro-Asia Cup. He played in two of the three ODIs, scoring 80 runs at an average of 40.00. He scored 61 of 57 balls in an innings that included 7 fours.
Zimbabwe reached 308/6.
Sibanda was included to the 2016 Interstate Commerce Commission World Twenty20 for Zimbabwe as the opening batsman with skipper Hamilton Masakadza. He scored his maiden T20I fifty of 59 from 54 balls against Hong Kong on 8 March 2016, during first match of group Bachelor in qualifying round.
One Day International centuries
International
Zimbabwe
Africa XI
Zimbabwean first-class
Midlands
Zimbabwe Cricket Academy
Zimbabwean club
Takashinga
Tests
Test Debut: vs West Indies, Harare, 2003–2004
Latest Test: vs New Zealand, Bulawayo, 2011–2012
Sibanda"s best Test score of 93 was made against New Zealand, Harare, 2011. One-day internationals
ODI Debut: vs West Indies, Bulawayo, 2003–2004
Latest ODI: vs Asia XI, Chennai, 2007
Sibanda"s best ODI score of 116
His best ODI bowling figures of 1 for 12 came against England, Birmingham, Interstate Commerce Commission Champions Trophy 2004.