David Travolta Mutendera (born 25 January 1979) is a former
Zimbabwean international cricket
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er who played one
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...
and nine
One Day International
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s. He now teaches cricket and football at St John’s College in
Harare
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.
A tall
seam bowler
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, with a height of almost two metres, he got bounce off the pitch and had the
off cutter
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A bowler releases a normal fast delivery with the wrist locked in position and the first two fingers positioned on top of the cricket ball, giving it s ...
as his stock ball. He had little success at international level, however, as his Test debut saw him bowl 14 overs against
New Zealand
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- coming on as third change in the first innings and not bowling at all in the second. Batting at number eleven, he made 10 and 0 in Zimbabwe's seven-wicket loss. In
ODIs
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he got nine wickets in his nine matches spread over two years, although six of them came against the bottom-ranked
Bangladesh team. He also dismissed Australian wicket-keeper
Adam Gilchrist
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twice, however.
He had played 20 matches (not all first-class) for
Zimbabwe A, but failed to get into the domestic sides, and has not played a
first class game since April 2004, when he took five for 62 for
Mashonaland
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Currently, Mashonaland is divided into four provinces,
* Mashonaland West
* Mashonaland Central
* Mashonaland East
* Harare
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in the first innings during a 329-run win against his old team
Midlands
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.
References
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1979 births
Alumni of Prince Edward School
Living people
Mashonaland cricketers
Mashonaland A cricketers
Midlands cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwean cricketers
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