Mary-Anne Musonda (born 4 August 1991) is a Zimbabwean cricketer and the current captain of the women's national cricket team, for which she is a right-handed batter. She also has a master's degree in Development Finance from the University of Cape Town. Early life and education Musonda was born in Harare to a Zimbabwean mother and a Zambian father. The youngest in a family of four children, and also the only girl, she began her education at Hermann Gmeiner Primary School in Harare. From 2004, she attended Kwekwe High School at Kwekwe, in the Midlands province, where she passed all of her 10 subjects. At high school, Musonda also participated in a lot of sports. Initially, she focused on hockey. However, her hockey coach was a friend of the cricket coach, Craig Majawa. In Form One, he recruited her to play cricket, and became her first cricket coach. She also played basketball, volleyball, and netball. Although Zimbabwe Cricket was introducing girls' cricket at schools, Musonda's high school did not then have a girls' team. "I started playing with the boys," she told ESPNcricinfo in 2022, "I played with [them] for a term or two, and really fell in love with cricket. I never went back to hockey." In school cricket, Musonda was an all-rounder. She started out bowling pace, but later switched to off spin after suffering an injury. Majawa encouraged her to believe she would be "an excellent cricketer", and she modelled her game around that of her favourite player, Charlotte Edwards. Less than a year after Musonda took up cricket, her school established a girls' team, and some of its members competed in provincial trials. She was included in a probable, but unofficial, 13 for the national women's team squad. Musonda went on her first tour as part of the national team in 2006. With the support of her mother, she decided to combine playing cricket with the pursuit of her studies. Due to her school commitments, she did not initially participate in all of the national team's activities. In 2020, Musonda told Women's CricZone, "Growing up I wanted to have a white collar job, and be involved in marketing. But at the end of high school I then felt that I could take cricket seriously." She was also driven to conquer both academia and the cricket world. Following her graduation from high school, Musonda returned to Harare,