*** Welcome to piglix ***

Trevor Madondo

Trevor Madondo
Personal information
Full name Trevor Nyasha Madondo
Born (1976-11-22)22 November 1976
Mount Darwin, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe
Died 11 June 2001(2001-06-11) (aged 24)
Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare
Batting Right-hand bat
Bowling Right-arm medium
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC
Matches 3 13 21
Runs scored 90 191 653
Batting average 30.00 15.91 21.06
100s/50s 0/1 0/1 0/4
Top score 74* 71 74*
Balls bowled - - 24
Wickets - - 1
Bowling average - - 28.00
5 wickets in innings - - -
10 wickets in match - n/a -
Best bowling - - 1/23
Catches/stumpings 1/- 2/- 13/-
Source: Cricinfo, 16 September 2013

Trevor Nyasha Madondo (November 22, 1976, Mount Darwin, Mashonaland – June 11, 2001, Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare) was a Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 13 ODIs from 1998 to 2001.

Growing up, Madondo attended Lilfordia School and Falcon College. At Falcon. he also played hockey and rugby union. He gave up his studies at Rhodes University to become a full-time cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he hit his highest first-class score in his last Test when he scored 74 not out against New Zealand in 2000-01.

He died a few months later at the age of 24 from malaria. He was the fifth-youngest Test player to die. As of 2013 he is the only deceased Zimbabwean Test cricketer.

In November 2008, his brother Tafadzwa Madondo died in a motorbike accident while vacationing in Bali.



...
Wikipedia

...