Francisco Couana (born 10 November 1996) is a Mozambican cricketer who plays for the Mozambique national cricket team.[1] In November 2019, he was named in Mozambique's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2019 T20 Kwacha Cup.[2] These were the first T20I matches to be played by Mozambique since the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted T20I status to all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019.[3] Couana made his T20I debut on 6 November 2019, in the first match of the tournament against hosts Malawi.[4]
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| Full name | Francisco Damiao Couana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1996-11-10) 10 November 1996 (age 25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| T20I debut (cap 3) | 6 November 2019 v Malawi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 19 September 2022 v Botswana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 September 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In October 2021, Couana was named in Mozambique's T20I squad for their matches in Group B of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Rwanda.[5] In Mozambique's second match of the qualifier, against Cameroon, he scored 104 runs and took five wickets.[6] He became the first player for Mozambique to score a century in T20Is,[7] and to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.[8] He also became the first player to score a century and take five wickets in a single T20I match.[9][10][11]