David Travolta Mutendera (born 25 January 1979) is a former Zimbabwean international

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er who played one

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and nine One Day Internationals. He now teaches cricket and football at St John’s College in

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. A tall seam bowler, with a height of almost two metres, he got bounce off the pitch and had the

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as his stock ball. He had little success at international level, however, as his Test debut saw him bowl 14 overs against

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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 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

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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 in the first innings during a 329-run win against his old team Midlands.

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