Trevor Nyasha Madondo (1976-2001) Test Cap #:38

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Full name Trevor Nyasha Madondo
Born November 22, 1976, Mount Darwin, Mashonaland
Died June 11, 2001, Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare (aged 24 years 201 days)
Major teams Zimbabwe (Test: 1997/98-2000/01)(ODI: 1998/99-2000/01); Matabeleland (1994/95-1996/97); Mashonaland (1998/99-2000/01); Matabeleland (1995/96-1996/97);(1998/99); Zimbabwe (1997/98-2000/01); Zimbabwe Cricket Union President's XI (1998/99-1999/00); Zimbabwe A (1998/99-2000/01); Zimbabwe Cricket Academy (1998/99); Zimbabweans (2000/01); Zimbabwe (1998/99-2000/01); Zimbabwe Cricket Academy (1998/99); Zimbabwe A (1998/99-1999/00); Zimbabweans (2000/01); Zimbabwe Under-19s (Under-19 Test: 1995/96); Zimbabwe Under-19s (Under-19 ODI: 1995/96); Zimbabwe Under-19s (Under-19 two innings: 1995/96); Zimbabwe Under-19s (Under-19 limited overs: 1995/96);
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Profile

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Trevor Madondo died of malaria at the age of 24, becoming one the youngest Test cricketers to die. A right-hand batsman, he was the first black to be selected as a specialist batsman by Zimbabwe against Pakistan in 1997-98, playing three times in all. He also played 13 one-day internationals. While the statistics are nothing special, Madondo was learning, and his Test-best of 74 came in his final outing six months before his death. He was realising the need to build an innings rather than smash everything, and also the value of working the ball around the field. His development was further hampered by injuries and suspicions that he wasn't as disciplined off he field as he might have been. Madondo won a place in the Colts cricket team in Grade 3 and by the time he was in Grade 5, he was already playing in the school's first team.
He played as an opening bowler, right-arm medium-pace, and batted at No. 4. He also played for the school's rugby and hockey teams. In Grade 6 he was selected for the Partridges, the national primary schools cricket team. In 1989 he won selection for the Mashonaland Country Districts primary schools select team which toured England. Trevor then went to Falcon College in Bulawayo for his secondary education. The institution has produced many of Zimbabwe's Test players. After two dormant years, Trevor began to keep wicket and this led to his selection for the Fawns, the national Under-15 team, and he went on the tour of Namibia in 1992.

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Runako Shakur Morton (1978-2012) Test Cap #:262

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Full name Runako Shakur Morton
Born July 22, 1978, Nevis
Died March 4, 2012, Chase Village, Trinidad (aged 33 years 226 days)
Major teams West Indies, Leeward Islands, Nevis, Trinidad & Tobago
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Biography

Runako Morton on his half-century,
West Indies v Australia, 1st Test,
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A batsman who played 15 Tests and 56 ODIs for West Indies, Runako Morton died in a car crash when just 33. His international career with West Indies spanned eight years, but he unable to win a regular place in the side, largely because of the controversies he was embroiled in.

His run-ins with authority started early, when he was expelled from the West Indian Academy in July 2001, for a series of regulation breaches. He refused to be bowed, however, and continued to accumulate runs for Leeward Islands in the Busta Cup. In February 2002, he was called into an injury-plagued West Indian squad as a replacement for Marlon Samuels, and was tipped to become one of the few Test cricketers from tiny island of Nevis.

But he threw away his opportunity when he pulled out of the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2002, after lying about the death of his grandmother. His career slipped further down the pan when he was arrested (though released without charge) in January 2004, following a stabbing incident, but in May 2005, he was given a third chance at redemption when he was recalled to the one-day squad to face South Africa although he didn't get a game.He got his chance later that month against Pakistan at home, and was then picked for the 2005-06 tour to New Zealand, where he proved his worth with a fighting century - his maiden one-day hundred - in a losing cause. He followed it up with another ton, in the away series against Zimbabwe, but soon made it into the record books for his painstaking 31-ball duck in the final of the DLF Cup against Australia in Malaysia. It was the slowest ODI duck, beating Phil Simmons's earlier record that had consumed 23 balls.