Douglas Hondo
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| Full name | Douglas Tafadzwa Hondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 July 1979 Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
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| Batting style | Right hand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 54) | 7 September 2001 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 14 January 2005 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 66) | 3 October 2001 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 29 January 2005 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1999/2000 | CFX Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000/01 | Midlands cricket team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001/02–2004/05 | Mashonaland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 March 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Douglas Tafadzwa Hondo (born 7 July 1979 in Bulawayo) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He played nine Test matches as a right-arm medium-fast swing bowler, and is distinctive for his dreadlocks.
Hondo was first introduced to cricket at primary school, his elder brother being the first in the family to take up the game. Hondo and his brother were under the guidance of Peter Sharples, a pioneer of taking cricket into the townships, or "high-density suburbs" as they are known in Zimbabwe. He coached the Queensdale Primary School team which consisted mainly of players who had no family background in the game due to the Rhodesian racist policies. Hondo was captain of the team in grades 6 and 7, opening the batting and the bowling. Like Tatenda Taibu and his mates, he attended Churchill School. He excelled, first as U15 captain and then in the full team, including taking 7–10 versus Gateway High School and scoring 121 versus Hillcrest. Hondo made the Mashonaland U 13 team and then the national U15 team. A back injury put Hondo out of U19 contention for a year but he made the CFX academy in 2000.
When he had finished at the academy he was placed with the Midlands team in Kwekwe. Hondo was plagued by bad form, taking only 11 wickets at more than 50. Despite this he was, surprisingly, called up for the first Test versus South Africa. Hondo assumed he was to be a net bowler but he was bowling well in the nets and then the first choice, Brighton Watambwa, was injured and Hondo made his debut. He did not bowl well, in a poor team performance, and South Africa scored 600–3 decl., Hondo taking the wicket of Gary Kirsten for 212. Hondo acquitted himself well with the bat, playing supportive innings to Andy Flower's pair of centuries, but was dismissed in the second innings with Flower stranded on 199*.
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