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Andre Soma

Zimbabwean cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ107575746 ↗
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Andre Davy Soma (born 12 August 1983) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played 13 first-class matches for Manicaland in the Logan Cup between 2000–01 and 2004–05. He also played one match for Easterns during the 2006–07 Logan Cup.

Soma was born in Mutare, Manicaland. He is the younger brother of cricketer Leon Soma.

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“Andre Soma” enters the record as zimbabwean cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andre, Soma and Zimbabwean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andre Soma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.