Travis Friend

His international career was cut short due to his fitness issues, being vulnerable as he was to intermittent injuries and he could not quite cement a permanent spot in the playing XI while his involvement in contract dispute with Zimbabwe Cricket at an early age of 24 did not help the cause either.

[2] He was certainly well noticed for his ability to bowl at a fierce pace but often had the vulnerability of losing the line and length which also cost him a permanent place in the national side despite his immense talent.

He created huge hype in Zimbabwean cricketing fraternity for being a tall, well built, pace bowling all-rounder and batted as a top-order batter at domestic level but he failed to live up to the expectations.

In addition to his ability to bowl with pace and hostility, he could hold a bat, often being used in the role of a pinch hitter for his side, very much in the mould of Andy Blignaut.

He was chosen for the Midlands team to play in the national primary schools cricket week while he was studying in Grade 4.

He went on a tour to South Africa with a Mashonaland Country Districts team and played primarily as a batsman bowling legspin.

He began his cricket career as a legspinner but he later switched to bowling right arm fast medium just two years prior to his international debut.

His career best performance came against India during the third match of the 2000–01 Sharjah Champions Trophy when he picked up 4/55 in his ten overs which also included the prized scalps of Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Vinod Kambli.

[17] He was part of the ZImbabwean squad which emerged as runners-up to Pakistan at the Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup 2003, although he did not play in the final of the tournament.

[18][19] He was named in the Zimbabwean team at the 2003 Cricket World Cup, a tournament which was marred due to political tensions in Zimbabwe.

[21][22] He did not make any announcement of official retirement from international cricket but his return to national side was highly unlikely to happen.

[29] In 2009, he signed up for the summer with Castletown Cricket Club on the Isle of Man – the first time any of the island's teams could boast a former Test player.