Dawid Hercules Botha (born 1 July 1988) is a

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

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er, who has played for Namibia's national cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman. He has represented Namibia's national team in

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

since 2006. He had previously represented the Namibia Under-19s. Botha was born in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

. He represented Namibia during the 2006 Under-19s World Cup. Botha was part of the Namibian Under-19 team which won the Under-19 African Championship in 2007. He made his first-class cricket debut on 11 May 2006, for Namibia against

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in the

2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup The 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the third edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup first-class cricket tournament, an international cricket tournament between nations who have not been awarded Test status by the International Cricket C ...

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Dawid Botha
at Cricket Archive 1988 births Namibian cricketers Living people Cricketers from Windhoek {{Namibia-cricket-bio-stub