Trevor Nyasha Madondo (22 November 1976 – 11 June 2001) was a Zimbabwean

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er who played in three

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and 13

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s from 1998 to 2001. Growing up, Madondo attended

Lilfordia School Lilfordia School (or Lilfordia) is an independent, preparatory, boarding school for boys and girls in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. Lilfordia was established in 1909 by Agnes and Atherton Lilford. The school is notable for the producing talented c ...

and

Falcon College , denomination = Interdenominational , established = , headmaster = D. van Wyk , grades_label = Forms , grades = 1—6 , gender = Co-educational , lower_age = 12 , upper_age = 18 , pupils = 384 (2016) , campus_type = Rural , houses = ...

. At Falcon. he also played hockey and

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. 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

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in 2000–01. He died a few months later at the age of 24 from

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. He was the fifth-youngest Test player to die. In November 2008, his brother Tafadzwa Madondo died in a motorbike accident while vacationing in

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.Tafadzwa Madondo killed in motorbike accident
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* 1976 births 2001 deaths Alumni of Falcon College Zimbabwe Test cricketers Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers Zimbabwean cricketers Mashonaland cricketers Matabeleland cricketers Deaths from malaria Infectious disease deaths in Zimbabwe {{Zimbabwe-cricketbio-stub